En souvenir de mon grand-pere / In memory of my grandfather Morris Hertzon. Pour plus des souvenirs / For more stories / de Montparnasse pendant son age d’or / of Montparnasse during its golden age, click here/cliquez ici. — Paul Ben-Itzak .

PARIS – Catch it while you can: The exhibition Paris pour école, 1905-1940, focusing on the (mostly, but not exclusively) Jewish artists of La Ruche (a magnet not just for Jewish but many foreign-born artists), closes October 31 at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme in Paris.

Artistes de la Ruche, 1914, mahJ © mahJ.

Marc Chagall, Revue Khaliasta n°2, 1924. © mahJ / Christophe Fouin © Adagp, Paris 2020. The journal was published in Paris by Chagall and other immigrant Jewish artists.

Marc Chagall, “Le Père,” 1911. mahJ, dépôt du Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN Grand. Palais / Philippe Migeat © Adagp, Paris 2020.

Amedeo Modigliani, “Portrait de Kisling,” 1916. Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Bertrand Prévost.

Moïse Kisling, “Nu cubiste,” 1918. mahJ © mahJ / Mario Goldman.

Jules Pascin attablé, 1930. mahJ, don de Jeanine Warnod © mahJ.

Jules Pascin, Les Petites Américaines, 1916. mahJ © mahJ / Mario Goldman.

Chana Orloff, 1916. © Archives Chana Orloff.

Mela Muter, “Autoportrait,” 1915. Genève, musée du Petit Palais © Studio Monique Bernaz, Genève.

Marc Vaux, Ossip Zadkine, 1909. mahJ, don de Jeanine Warnod © mahJ.

Morice Lipsi dans son atelier à la Ruche, vers 1918. mahJ, don de Jeanine Warnod © mahJ.

Georges Kars, “Autoportrait,” 1920 ou 1929. Strasbourg, musée d’Art moderne et contemporain © Musées de Strasbourg.

Jacques Lipchitz, “La Fuite,” 1940. Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Migeat.

Simon Mondzain, “La Faim”, 1914. Collection particulière © Christophe Fouin.

Artistes de la Ruche au Dôme, 1914. mahJ © mahJ. De gauche à droite: Wilhelm Uhde, Walter Bondy, Rudolf Levy et Jules Pascin. Collection Catherine Cozzano.

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Contact Paul Ben-Itzak at artsvoyager@gmail.com. Paul Ben-Itzak was educated at San Francisco's Mission High School, the San Francisco Center for Theater Training, and Princeton University, where he studied with Robert Fagles, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Chances, and Lucinda Franks. Also at Princeton, he was founding managing editor of the Nassau Weekly and began contributing to the New York Times, Reuters, the Associated Press, Atlantic City Press, and many others, later writing for the Arts & Liesure section of the Times. As a San Francisco-based correspondent for Reuters, he was one of the first reporters to cover the AIDS crisis, also covering the arts, the tech sector, and the financial markets. In 1998, he co-founded the leading international arts journal The Dance Insider & Arts Voyager (http://www.danceinsider.com ) and, later, Art Investment News (http://www.artinvestmentnews.com). Paul has also worked as a DJ, children's theater teacher and playwright, and made his debut as an actor on the New York stage in 2011, playing Weston in Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class." To date, Paul has translated the sketches of Boris Vian, reviews of theater performances , French tourism sites, and research proposals and articles from CNRS and other researchers. His editing work includes dissertation level papers.

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