Mendel Schneerson
David Levine, perhaps the greatest American cultural caricaturist passed away in December. I have a special affinity for this art because my relative Joseph Igin was the Russian counterpart of David Levine. The new York Review of books published the entire archive of David Levin. Take a look at this Russian Writers caricatures, simply superb. Especially interesting are the different takes on the same people, you can see that these were not just semblance portraits but tour de force psychological descriptions, infections of the dominant personality notes. David Levine never seen this photo, yet he captured the Lubavitcher exactly, genius!
Further Reading:
Tired of David Brooks
King David, his Goliath’s Head Trophy and the Babylonian Skulls
David Brooks Proclaims a Tea Party Decade
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