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Yishai Jusidman

Apr 14, 2026, 1:18 AM

Supporters of a longstanding ban on Holocaust representation in art are high-minded and well-meaning, but they misconstrue the object of its representation

Nov 25, 2025, 6:05 AM

A letter to my anti-Zionist friend

Our conversation last night was tough. We had managed to avoid the subject until now. But sure enough, the time to face our differences arrived. You were more surprised by my stance than I was by yours, which has...

Jul 1, 2024, 8:18 PM

Meanwhile at the Biennale…

graphics at the Biennale / montage by the author

This summer, visitors to the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice (aka the Biennale) sooner or later arrive at the Israel pavilion—only to find it closed to the public. A poster in its see-through door states: “The artist and...

Mar 14, 2024, 7:28 AM

ATTN: Jonathan || RE:Your Speech of Interest

All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say "look what they did then"—rather "look what we do now." Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of...

Feb 20, 2024, 10:55 AM

Can You Hear the Runaway Trolley in Gaza?

Generated with AI ∙ February 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM

On October 19, barely a dozen days after one of the most savage pogroms in recorded memory, the influential journal Artforum published an open letter co-signed by 8,000 artists, curators and artworld associates. They were, true to form, at the vanguard...

Feb 4, 2024, 6:38 PM

Why (almost) everyone hates Israel

2011 Quds Day in Nishapur. Photo: Sonia Sevilla. Wikimedia Commons.

In the aftermath of Hamas’s pogrom of October 7, it's become mind-bogglingly obvious that no other political cause is as widespread worldwide as Israel hatred—an intersectional common denominator of otherwise unrelated and even opposing forces in the public arena. Their...

About Me

Yishai is a contemporary painter and occasional art critic, born in Mexico City, based in Los Angeles and soon migrating to moshav Tal Shachar. His artwork has been shown worldwide in prestigious international exhibitions. A recent series, "Prussian Blue", deals with the aesthetic challenges of Holocaust remembrance through art, and it is on view at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum through October 2026. His writing has been published in Artforum, Art Issues, Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Review of Books, and more.

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