Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent: Israel, Ukraine deal lets Yad Vashem exhibit Holocaust artist's work
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Title:Scandal re Bruno Schulz
Name:Brian R.Banks
City: WarsawState: Poland
Unfortunately A.Pfeffer`s article is slanted & unresearched because lacks the central fact (among many)that Bruno Schulz was a POLISH writer-artist who created with pride in that country`s language and landscape. Tragically, he also spoke and read German but was murdered by German criminals who were themselves half-Jewish. He never discussed Ukrainian culture or socio-ethnic symbols, in spite of being in a town that was a cultural crossroads. The objects of Schulz`s legacy belong first to his family: it is only because of the family`s open-handed love of their relative`s sensibility and worldview that Poland has itself benefitted from the posthumous legacy of Bruno Schulz. Yad Vashem`s artistic materialism (this is only one case among others)has not honoured them, and this also forms elements of the fabric of this sad tragedy.