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This article relates to The World To Come
Dara Horn was
inspired to write The World
To Come following an actual
theft of a Marc Chagall painting
from a museum in New York that
took place during a singles'
cocktail hour.
More about this.
The painting that Benjamin
Ziskind steals from the museum,
Study for "Over Vitebsk",
is, I assume, fictitious.
However
Over Vitebsk itself does
exist, and can be seen in the
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in
New York. Vitebsk was the town
in which Chagall was born and
spent his childhood.
More about Chagall.
'Der Nister' was the pseudonym
of Pinchas Kahanovich, a Yiddish
author, philosopher, translator
and critic who was born in the
Ukraine in 1884 and died in a
Soviet Gulag in 1950. Even in
his earliest works, he was drawn
to the arcane teachings of the
Kabbalah (A body of mystical
teachings of rabbinical origin -
from which the word 'cabal'
comes), and adopted the
pseudonym 'Der Nister' - 'The
Hidden One'. His novel, The
Family Mashber was published
in English for the first time in
1987.
More about Der Nister.
This article relates to The World To Come. It first ran in the January 18, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.
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