Lettering for comics, card 9
2011
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
The board shows Abraham Rotfarb's attitude to the family's way of earning money. In his autobiography, on which the comic book is based, we read: And it is strange that my work, although it counts as light, is more tiring and exhausting than hard physical one. He asks himself: Where to go? ... What to do? What to think? […] What's next?. He is bitterly thinking: You may be offended [...] because you have no prisons to punish those who for nothing [...] insulted and beat you. The comic book creator presented these Abraham’s considerations as follows - the boy looks at the windows and instead of his own sees the snout of a lost dog. The recollection motif that appears at the bottom of the board: wandering the streets, Abraham often meets a friend with whom they were inseparable in their childhood. He wrote about it in his autobiography: “Today I often see Moszek on the street. We look at each other, but as if we don't know each other or are angry with each other. He's a poor man; he wears rags and is said to be a porter”. In his autobiography Abraham states bitterly: Ah, how far we are from real life, from the broad social world, from its lively pulse!
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cały obiekt: height: 29,6 cm, width: 20,9 cm
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painting
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paper
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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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2011
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
2011
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
2011
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
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