Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1888-1942) Jewish artist, illustrator born in Lithuania, then part of Russian. She was active in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and in Paris in the 1930s hanging out at well known cafés frequented by artists and intellectuals. She was best known for her illustrations of East European Jewish subjects
In 1942, Szalit-Marcus was arrested in the Vel d'Hiv Roundup, and she was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Her Paris studio was ransacked, and many of her works destroyed
Shown here are lithographic illustrations from Sholem Aleichem’s unfinished novel Motl, the Cantor’s Son, 1922