Past Event
Sunday, May 31, 2026, 11 a.m. to noon
The Old Rebbe: Yehuda Pen & the Birth of Jewish Fine Art
1128 Wall Street, San Diego, 92037
Before Chagall became Chagall, there was Yehuda Pen.
Join art historian Jennifer Stern for an illuminating lecture on Yehuda Pen, the first Russian artist to combine classical technique with Jewish subject matter drawn from everyday life. Pen's Vitebsk art school became a cradle of Jewish modernism, nurturing talents such as Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and Solomon Yudovin. Jennifer Stern holds an MA in Art History from Yale University and has dedicated 26 years to the Art History Department at Brandeis University. She writes on art and culture in English and Yiddish for the Forverts.