Irvin Ungar

Irvin Ungar, a former pulpit rabbi and antiquarian bookseller, has devoted the past quarter-century to scholarship on Arthur Szyk. He has curated and consulted for numerous Szyk exhibitions, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, and the New-York Historical Society. Ungar is the author of "Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art" (winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award), co-producer of the documentary film, “Soldier in Art: Arthur Szyk,” and the creator and publisher of the luxury limited edition of The Szyk Haggadah. He has also served as the curator of The Arthur Szyk Society in Burlingame, California.

ARTICLES BY: Irvin Ungar

December 12, 2023 4:47 pm

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Arthur Szyk and The Modern Maccabees

On this Hanukkah, entering week 10 in the war with Hamas, can we not call the men and women of Israel—who fight for the right...

November 10, 2023 2:56 pm

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Tears of Rage

Both the soldier and the Jewish artist who created him died more than 70 years ago, yet they still have the visual power to call...

April 25, 2023 10:35 am

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If I Forget You, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither

Arthur Szyk begins his illustrated Haggadah by inscribing on its decorative frontispiece “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither.” The ancient...

December 20, 2022 11:30 am

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Celebrating the Bond Between Israel and Liberia

Earlier this month, Liberia was one of only five countries in the United Nations to support Israel’s right to bear nuclear weapons as a deterrent...

June 20, 2022 3:46 pm

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Arthur Szyk: An Illustrator of Moral Clarity and An Artist for Our Time

As the United States celebrates Juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, there is no better occasion to consider the life and work of...

April 15, 2022 11:06 am

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Arthur Szyk’s Haggadah and the Jews of Lviv

This Passover, we are sickened by the degradation, oppression, and murder of Ukrainian civilians at the hand of a hardened, modern pharaoh, as we witness...