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Mark Podwal

Mark Podwal

Mark Podwal is an artist in New York. He has illustrated many of the books of his friend Elie Wiesel, and his work can be found in major museums, Jewish and non-Jewish, worldwide.

The fast day commemorates the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem and memorializes other major tragedies that befell the Jewish people throughout its history.
Heinrich Heine, the 19th-century German Jewish poet, had warned, “Where books are burned, people will be burned.”
Drawing by Mark Podwal
Drawing by Mark Podwal
Drawing by Mark Podwal
A drawing published as a Chanukah card by the Jewish Museum.
A design for a Chanukah card
Drawing by Mark Podwal
The drawing was published in Elie Wiesel’s “A Beggar in Jerusalem.”