Portrait of Avram Stencl – (Josef Herman Obe Ra) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Josef Herman Obe Ra

Date: 1946

Museum: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (London, United Kingdom)

Technique: Drawing

Avram Stencl was born in Poland in 1897 and moved to Weimar Berlin in 1921, where he remained until. following the rise of Nazism, he was forced to flee, immigrating to England in 1936 and settling in Whitechapel, where he remained for more than forty years. Here, he launched his career as a Yiddish poet and edited the journal