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Article: An Anarchist Painter's Jewish Struggle: New exhibit Looks at Pissarro
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- February 24, 1995
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Robin Cembalest
Forward
02-24-1995
An Anarchist Painter's Jewish Struggle: New Exhibit Looks at Pissarro. Through Great-Grandson's Eyes
The Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, whose retrospective opens at the Jewish Museum in New York this week, expressed little interest in the religion of his parents. A committed anarchist, he took a Christian wife and taught his eight children the dangers of organized religion. He was outraged when his son Lucien became engaged to an Orthodox Jew whose father demanded Lucien get circumcised. When Alfred Dreyfus was first accused of treason, Pissarro told another son not to "get flustered" because the affair affected only the capitalist bourgeoisie.
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