Talk:Bernard Zakheim/Archive 1

Trivia that probably doesn't belong
As a trivia note, Zakheim was a friend of Frank Herbert, and influenced Herbert's work by encouraging him to include political/religious messages in his books, according to Herbert's son's biography: http://books.google.com/books?id=Hmg0YFP52XcC&pg=PA576&dq=frank+herbert+bernhard+zakheim&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ViOwUffiCsOCiAKGooCACg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bernhard%20zakheim&f=false

Can't see any reasonable way to work that in to the article in its current state, but wanted to leave it here in case I (or someone else) sees fit to incorporate it later.


 * Thanks -- i found a way to relate this to the other bio text. 70.36.137.253 (talk) 04:51, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Added data with refs
I just added some data with references that support Zakheim's personal history:

As previously written, due to an omission, it appeared as if he had rejected Jewish religion and became a career furniture maker who later took up art as an adult.

However, as the newly cited references support, he dropped out of his training to become a Jewish rabbi, studied fine art via private lessons and at the Polish national art academy, studied furniture making and upholstery as an income-producing occupation, arrived in the USA as an immigrant, supported himself by furniture making briefly, and quickly made the transition to being a full-time artist and art instructor in a Jewish community center, which he helped to organize.

The takeaway: He never turned away from identification as a Jew; quite the contrary, he put his identification as a Jew front and center in much of his work and he openly associated with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Also, he did not suddenly move from a career as a furniture maker and upholsterer to being an artist; rather, his technical furniture making and fine art occupations were intended to be complimentary until he could support himself solely with his fine art, a goal which he accomplished around 1933, when he was in his mid-30s. In addition to the published sources cited, i happen to have known him through my mother, who was active in left wing politics and Jewish culture in the San Francisco Bay area from World War Two onward.

Thanks for reading this. -- catherine yronwode, (User:Catherineyronwode), (not logged in) 70.36.137.253 (talk) 17:56, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the edits, User:Catherineyronwode. What little information I could find on that period was somewhere between vague and unverifiable, so I'd left it in a similar state. Much stronger now! And I think when I was editing the cite you put in from the JCCC wasn't up yet? Or at least I definitely looked for something from the JCCC and didn't find it. So thanks! LuisVilla (talk) 15:42, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Toland Hall paintings were rescued/removed yesterday.
See above 2601:642:C301:9A30:24C6:F7DF:4E3F:7FAD (talk) 19:02, 11 November 2021 (UTC)