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Sarah Breitberg-Semel, former curator of Israeli art at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, recounts artists lashing out against expectations to produce work that dealt with themes of the Holocaust and the Orient during the period of Israeli Modernism.
Israeli art historian Sarah Breitberg-Semel describes the pointed Holocaust themes of Moshe Gershuni's exhibition at the 1980 Biennale di Venezia - a strong departure from the Israeli Modernist movement of the era.