HITLER'S YO-YO, ZISL THE STREET MUSICIAN, AND DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WITH HONORARY HORNS © Hitler's Yo-Yo, Zisl der Strassenmusikant, und Dietrich Bonhoeffer mit Ehrenhornern Wings Art No. 45 2001- 2002 32 H x 47 ? W 81.2 x 120.6 cm Ink, gouache and colored pencil on paper, mounted on masonite (unframed) Background on Hitler's Yo-YO ~ Zisl (upper left) was drawn from a photo in the book IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST, by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Schocken Books & YIVO, NY, '77). It is captioned: Zisl, the street musician. Staszow, 1930's. Photographer: Avrom Yosl Rotenberg family / Simkhe Rotenberg Collection. Zisl's fate is unknown; is it doubtful he survived the inferno. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer is portrayed at lower left, from a photograph taken when he was a boy. It appears in the book DIETRICH BONHOEFFER - A LIFE IN PICTURES, by Eberhard Bethge, Renate Bethge and Christian Gremmels (Fortress Press, Philadelphia, '86). A leader of the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church" movement in Nazi Germany, Bonhoeffer was executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp on April 9, 1945, three weeks before the war in Europe ended. German church people aligned with the Nazi government were in the "German Church." While Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazi work is well known, his activities to save individual Jews remains in dispute. Bonhoeffer's horns were drawn from a stuffed and mounted antelope head Segan bought at an an English import antique shop on the Seattle waterfront in the early 1980's. The hand-painted wood plaque at the base of its neck states "Chanler's Reedbuck, B.C.E. Crater, 1907." Bonhoeffer's arrow-through-the-head was drawn from an arrow-through-the-head toy (or prop?) someone gave the in the '80's. ~ The yo-yo ~ upper image: A depiction of the "Bull of Pope Julius, May 29, 1554" urging Christians to burn copies of the Talmud. The Talmud is Jewish civil and religious law. It is divided into two parts: Mishnah – text, and Gemarah – commentary. A Bull in Vatican parlance refers to an edict or pronouncement issued by a Pope. The image was drawn from a reproduction in the book (for junior high school students) THE HOLOCAUST / THE WORLD AND THE JEWS 1933-1945, by Seymour Rossel (Behrman House, NJ ’92). ~ The LEFT SPHERE depicts the huge dome with its Star of David spire on top of the Oranienburgerstrasse synagogue in Berlin. Built between 1859-66, it was partially destroyed during Krystallnacht in 1938 and was further damaged by Allied bombing in 1945. It has since been restored and is used as a synagogue today. Drawn from a drawing appearing in the book SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE / ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY, MEANING, by Carol Hershelle Krinsky (Dover Books,NY ’96), p. 266, plate 122. ~ The MIDDLE SPHERE depicts a German Nazi beer coaster showing an ugly cartoon image of a Jewish man. The complete text states: Wer biem Juden kauft ist ein Volksverrate - He who buys from a Jew is a traitor to his people. A contemporary American version of this image from Florida, of the 1930’s, appears in the book THE ART OF HATRED – IMAGES OF INTOLERANCE IN FLORIDA CULTURE (publisher: Jewish Museum of Florida, 2001, Miami Beach, FL). ~ The right sphere depicts the top of one of the two towers of the synagogue at Pest - Dohanyi street in Budapest, Hungary. Krinsky describes it as "Jewish Gothic" architecture, of a "Moorish architectural mode." Built 1854-59, it is the largest standing synagogue in Europe. I forgot to jot down what book photo I drew the image from. ~ Hitler's head is replaced with STRUMER, the second word of DER STRUMER, the title of the violenty anti-Semitic magazine of Nazi Germany. Der Sturmer translates as The Storm. ~ The chicken was drawn from chickens in EXTRAORDINARY CHICKENS, by Stephen Green-Armitage (Harry Abrams, NY, 2000).The chickens head was drawn from the 2-page photo of a "Hamburg - Silver Spangled." HITLER'S YO-YO, ZISL THE STREET MUSICIAN, AND DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WITH HONORARY HORNS © Hitler's Yo-Yo, Zisl der Strassenmusikant, und Dietrich Bonhoeffer mit Ehrenhornern Wings Art No. 45 2001- 2002 32 H x 47 ? W 81.2 x 120.6 cm Ink, gouache and colored pencil on paper, mounted on masonite (unframed) Background on Hitler's Yo-YO ~ Zisl (upper left) was drawn from a photo in the book IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST, by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Schocken Books & YIVO, NY, '77). It is captioned: Zisl, the street musician. Staszow, 1930's. Photographer: Avrom Yosl Rotenberg family / Simkhe Rotenberg Collection. Zisl's fate is unknown; is it doubtful he survived the inferno. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer is portrayed at lower left, from a photograph taken when he was a boy. It appears in the book DIETRICH BONHOEFFER - A LIFE IN PICTURES, by Eberhard Bethge, Renate Bethge and Christian

I am not Irish, but could use some luck... In honor of St. Patrick's Day... Even if there is no rainbow on my horizon today, I still can enjoy my own personal POT FULL OF GOLD (and silver)! Made in full compliance with the famous Irish saying: "At the end of every rainbow there is a pot of gold". ************************************************************ Made out of vitreous glass tiles, with hand cut glass 4 leaf clover and coins set on top of sealed plywood. Grouted in 2 colors: black (the pot) and golden with sparkles (coin area). Painted green of the reverse side. 7" by 6" (18 by 15 cm). ************************************************************ Could be hanged as decorative trinket or laid flat and used as a hot plate. ************************************************************ Judging by the amount of love that went into creating it, this pot is just bound to be lucky!