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Discussing and exhibiting artists who were marginalized and persecuted by an authoritarian regime

09/18/2026

Did you know “dor” is a uniquely Romanian word describing a deep, bittersweet longing for someone or something lost? This powerful feeling resonates through the story of Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde—a cultural legacy long silenced by history.

On Wednesday, we explored these untold stories in “Reconciling Identities: Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Interwar Years.” If you missed this moving presentation, you can now listen to the recording: https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/marcel-janco/

Let’s honor the artists whose voices were nearly erased, and keep their memory alive.

09/17/2026

Curious about the history of a specific work of art, the story of a Holocaust victim, or the circumstances surrounding Nazi-era looting?
JDCRP’s Legacy Explorer is a digital platform connecting archives of records on Nazi-era looted art. At present it holds a limited number of datasets that can be searched, linked, and matched at the document level, with many more datasets planned. Search for artists, owners, objects, identification numbers and more.
Find out more here: https://explorer.rjlegacy.org

09/16/2026

Today online: Reconciling Identities: Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Interwar Years: https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/marcel-janco/.
Dr. Amelia Miholca’s presentation explores the artistic and historical significance of Marcel Janco and the Romanian avant-garde, highlighting how Jewish artists and writers combined their Jewish identity with an international avant-garde vision through influential Dadaist and Constructivist magazines such as Contimporanul, 75HP, Integral, and the distinctly Jewish Puntea de Fildeş. She examines how these publications fostered connections with Jewish intellectual communities in Romania and Palestine while also protesting the Romanian government’s treatment of Jews, revealing the growing alienation that ultimately drove many artists into exile or emigration, including Janco, who fled to Palestine in 1941 to escape the Holocaust.
Organized in collaboration with DOR - Romanian Diaspora and (CDV).

09/15/2026

Tomorrow, September 16, online: Reconciling Identities: Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Interwar Years: https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/marcel-janco/.
Romanian art historian Dr. Amelia Miholca’s presentation explores the artistic and historical significance of Marcel Janco and the Romanian avant-garde, highlighting how Jewish artists and writers—including M. H. Maxy, Victor Brauner, Mattis Teutsch, and Benjamin Fondane—combined their Jewish identity with an international avant-garde vision.

Organized in collaboration with DOR - Romanian Diaspora and (CDV).

09/14/2026

Join us this Wednesday, September 16, online to meet Romanian art historian Dr. Amelia Miholca, who will speak about Reconciling Identities: Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Interwar Years: https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/marcel-janco/.
Influential Dadaist and Constructivist magazines such as Contimporanul, 75HP, Integral, and the distinctly Jewish Puntea de Fildeş fostered connections with Jewish intellectual communities in Romania and Palestine while also protesting the Romanian government’s treatment of Jews, which ultimately drove many artists into exile or emigration.

IMAGES: Marcel and Jules Janco, Villa Floorplans, Puntea de Fildes no. 2 (May 2, 1926); Marcel Janco, Cover of Puntea de Fildeş no. 1 (April 1925); both Biblioteca Digitala a Bucurestilor, www.digibuc.ro

Organized in collaboration with DOR - Romanian Diaspora and (CDV).

09/11/2026

Wishing everyone a sweet New Year 5787 with Chaim Gross (Ökörmező, Kingdom of Hungary 1904-1991 New York), Rosh Hashanah, 1968, lithograph printed in colors, from the Jewish Holidays Portfolio. Shana Tova!

09/10/2026

Here in New York, tomorrow's 25th anniversary of 9/11 - the attack that forever changed New York, the United States and the world - brings back painful memories which a lot of us live with every day.
This was the kind of catastrophe Art Spiegelman's parents, both Auschwitz survivors, had always warned him about, when world history and personal history collide. The author of the famous graphic novel Maus, just re-published the 2004 graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers.

09/09/2026

Unique to the Romanian avant-garde, several, including Marcel Janco, published in the magazine Puntea de Fildeş (1925-1926), which appeared in two issues in Romania on the occasion of the opening of the Jewish University in Jerusalem. The magazine comprises of poems, essays, and art by Romanian-Jewish writers and artists. Join us on September 16 online for Reconciling Identities: Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Interwar Years: https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/marcel-janco/.

Organized in collaboration with DOR - Romanian Diaspora and (CDV).

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