Yehuda Pen’s portraits of Jewish dignity.

From a title inspired by a Chagall painting to 35 discarded songs, the classic musical has a rich and illuminating history.

An admirer of Marc Chagall and a muse to Bruno Schulz.

What exactly was it that his work captured?

How the artist was influenced by his hometown.

“Above all a Jewish artist.”

Of pogroms and animal carcasses.

A fanciful 13th-century tablet and a current exhibition.

In art and in life.

Even as it features their work.

From embracing Jewish subjects to avoiding them.

It only took Vitebsk, Belarus fifty years.

In best-selling comic books like The Rabbi’s Cat and Klezmer.

Now on public display at the National Gallery: a shimmering, large-scale outdoor mosaic originally created by Marc Chagall as a gift for American friends.