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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.
A drawing that ran in “The New York Times” in the 1980s.
The crab’s pinch characterizes the pain the Jewish people endured in Tammuz, a month with no festivals yet a fast day.
A Lag B’Omer drawing by Mark Podwal
Drawing by Mark Podwal
Drawing by Mark Podwal
Painting by Mark Podwal
Drawing by Mark Podwal
A Purim silkscreen print by Mark Podwal.
Acrylic and colored pencil drawing on paper, 2023.
Mark Podwal’s drawing celebrates JNF turning Israel green.
Heinrich Heine, the 19th-century German Jewish poet, had warned, “Where books are burned, people will be burned.”