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Molded Inexorably by the Times: Rachel Wischnitzer’s and Franzisca Baruch’s Collaboration on the Headlines of Rimon/Milgroym

Mishory exam­ines the col­lab­o­ra­tive work of art his­to­ri­an Rachel Wis­chnitzer (18851989), and Jew­ish-Ger­man design­er and typog­ra­ph­er Franzis­ca Baruch (19011989), demon­strat­ing that Baruch’s revival of medieval Hebrew let­ter­forms in her work on Rimon/​Milgroym and her use of frag­men­ta­tion as a strat­e­gy for visu­al, tex­tu­al, and cul­tur­al revival was in con­ver­sa­tion with Wischnitzer’s scholarship. 

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