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Anna Abramzon

May 9, 2025, 12:17 AM

To be an American Jew over the past year and a half has meant living under an exhausting, unrelenting spotlight. The events of October 7 and everything that followed ripped off a long-standing bandage, thrusting us into ruthless public...

Oct 17, 2024, 11:21 PM

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Jewish artists won’t be silenced

We Will Dance Again, Anna Abramzon, mixed media on paper

With art, we express defiance, process loss, and achieve freedom, like the captive girl's drawings found underground -- of mountains, houses, and a sunny sky

Jan 5, 2024, 11:13 PM

The Year I Learned to Find Light in the Dark

One thing Jews and our enemies agree on is that we, Jews, treasure life above all else. No period in my life has illustrated this more clearly than 2023, a year that brought with it a surreal combination of...

Nov 1, 2023, 5:11 AM

I Won’t Take Off My Jewish Star

I took my daughter shopping this weekend. We stopped at a kiosk in our local mall in West Los Angeles. As I was browsing, the saleswoman approached me. With a lowered voice, her hand on my forearm, she told...

Oct 17, 2023, 9:57 PM

Outnumbered at UCLA’s Pro Hamas Rally

It was a proud day on UCLA’s campus. Hundreds of students, high on vicious self-righteousness, rallied in Bruin Plaza on the afternoon of October 12 to show their support for Hamas. They came together to celebrate the raping of...

Nov 16, 2022, 9:38 PM

Et tu, Chappelle?

The Dave Chappelle SNL opening this past Saturday upset me so much more than any of Kanye’s rants in recent weeks. It threw me into a funk I can’t seem to shake. I keep doom scrolling the hordes of...

Apr 21, 2022, 7:21 AM

Chicago to Mariupol: A network rescues Ukrainians

Pavel's team evacuates children from hot zone in Ukraine. March 14, 2022

For Many Soviet immigrants in America, the War in Ukraine is “Go Time” One morning in 1990, when I was 8 years old, I got out of bed and doubled over in pain. I looked down to find a marble-sized...

Mar 14, 2022, 5:41 AM

Ukraine and “Us”– It’s Complicated

Portrait of Volodymyr Zelensky by Anna Abramzon

Growing up in Soviet era Ukraine, it was crystal clear to me that I was not Ukrainian. I had many things in common with my classmates and neighbors. We looked alike, wore the same school uniforms, spoke the same...

About Me

Anna Abramzon is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the intersection of contemporary figurative painting and traditional Judaica. She specializes in ketubah art, painted tallitot, and Jewish motifs. She is also a blogger on issues of Soviet Jewry, Israel, and Jewish lifestyle.

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