Forgotten heroes of Montparnasas

For the twentieth century, hundreds of wonderful artists from the Russian Empire worked in France, many of whom grew up in Jewish families. Some of them, like Mark Shaim Sutin, became world famous, others are known only to specialists, and oblivion threatens a number of worthy masters. Many talented artists died young in poverty or died in the fire of the Holocaust, their legacy was practically not preserved. This book, based on a large array of rare materials collected in France, in the USA, Israel, in Russia and Ukraine, is designed not only to return undeservedly forgotten names to collective memory, but mainly to recreate the integral picture of the Russian/Jewish presence in the artistic life of Paris in the first half of the twentieth century, to pay tribute to those who supported the needy artists, organized their first exhibitions, gave them work, wrote about them ... Heroes of Montparnasa are: Berta Weil and Leopold Zborovsky, Paul Guillaume and Jonas Netter Max Jacob and Waldemar Georges, Wilhelm Ude and Daniel-Henry Canweiler, Leo, Sarah and Gertrude Stayna, Etta and Claribel Kon, Sergey Schukin and Ivan Morozov, Maxim Vinavver and Sergey Diaghilev, Maria and Mikhail Zetlina