Zuni Maud

Zuni Maud (born Yitzhok Moyed; 1891 – 1956) was a Yiddish-American cartoonist, satirist, calligrapher and co-founder of the first Yiddish-language puppet theatre in the United States.

Zuni Maud (זוני מאוד) was born Yitzhok Moyed in the shtetl of Vaslikov, Polish Lithuania.

He did odd jobs while studying art at night at Cooper Union and the anarchist social center, the Ferrer School.

[3] In 1924, he joined friends Yosl Cutler and Jack Tworkov to be set and costume designers for Maurice Schwartz's production of Abraham Goldfaden's Di Kishefmacherin.

Plays were delivered with an artful and sharp satire of Yiddish life,[6] with a left-wing political outlook, but maintaining a comic edge.

"[9] In 1929 Modicot toured for three years, first in America, then Europe, with visits to London, Paris, Vilna, Warsaw, Amsterdam and finishing in the Soviet Union.

In Warsaw the Yiddish press had unmitigated praise for Modicot, recommending it to "all Jewish workers," and noting: The entire program is full of extraordinary folk humor, wonderful ideas, and splendid technique.

[11]A versatile artist he illustrated many books, mainly children's, worked as a set designer for the Yiddish theatre and was a noted calligrapher.

After a failed one man art show, he devoted his time to painting for himself at the family bungalow colony in the Catskills.