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Jacob Bernstein-Kogan
Jacob Bernstein-Kogan was a Russian physician, Zionist, and Jewish community activist. He was born in 1859 in what is now Chișinău, Moldova (then Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire). His father was an important figure in the Kishinev Jewish community. As a Zionist activist, Bernstein-Kogan led the Kishinev correspondence bureau of the Zionist movement. During the Kishinev pogrom, he and his family fled their home, which was looted. As a community organizer and activist, he raised money for relief and played an important role in spreading awareness of the pogrom around the world. Later, he left Kishinev out of fear that he would be murdered for raising awareness of the pogrom. Bernstein-Kogan was a doctor by trade and specialized in cholera. Before World War I, he moved to Palestine but later returned to Europe, first to Romania and then to Soviet Crimea. He died in 1929 in Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Bernshtein-Kogan
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and demonstrate that the prehistoric population took great care in burying their ancestors below their homes. The skulls denote some of the earliest sculptural examples of portraiture in the history of art. Historical portraitur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
