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Issachar Ber Ryback
A Life Shaped by Memory and Loss In the small streets of Yelisavetgrad, within the Russian Empire, a young boy named Issachar Ber Ryback began to see the world through a lens that would later define an entire era of Jewish expression. His early years in Ukraine were marked by the profound shadows of history. The violence of the pogroms was not merely a distant news report for him; it was a personal tragedy that claimed his father’s lif
e. This deep, internal wound shaped his artistic purpose, driving him to seek a way to memorialize the vanishing world of the shtetl. His formal training began at the Kiev Art School, where he studied under masters like Alexander Bogomazov and Alexandra Exter. These teachers introduced him to the sharp, fractured language of modernism. By 1916, alongside El Lissitzky, Ryback undertook expeditions through Ukraine and Belarus. They move…