Irene Lieblich

Irene Lieblich (20 April 1923 – 28 December 2008) was a Polish-born artist and Holocaust survivor noted for illustrating the books of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and for her paintings highlighting Jewish life and culture.

During 1973–74, her work remained on exhibition at Artists Equity in New York, where noted author and future Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer saw it.

Singer insisted that his publishers hire Lieblich to illustrate his books for children, including A Tale of Three Wishes,[2] and The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah.

In 1995, her works were featured in an exhibition titled Living Memories at the Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, held in conjunction with the last formal World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors.

[citation needed] Lieblich's works were shown at the National Yiddish Library Gallery in Amherst, Massachusetts as part of a 2004 exhibit celebrating the centenary of Isaac Bashevis Singer's birth.

The Shtetl Museum at Rishon LeZion in Israel reproduced Lieblich's painting The World of Isaac Bashevis Singer on the poster it issued to commemorate its groundbreaking ceremony held there on 1 June 2003.

[citation needed] Richard McBee wrote of one of Lieblich's illustrations depicting World War II Jewish Partisans celebrating the holiday of Hanukkah in a snow-filled forest while some keep an armed watch, "The simple composition slowly reveals first courageous piety, then childish playfulness and finally the deadly seriousness of their guards.

Irene Lieblich signs autographs alongside Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Lieblich signs autographs alongside Isaac Bashevis Singer