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Yonia Fain

Yonia Fain (1913 - 2013) was active/lived in New York / Russian Federation.  Yonia Fain is known for Portraits, poetry, murals, Holocaust painting.

Yonia Fain (1913 - 2013)Yonia Fain Portrait
International Artist, Award-Winning Yiddish Poet/Author
Past President of the Yiddish Pen Society
Past Co-President of the Congress for Jewish Culture

Yonia Fain was an internationally acclaimed artist, poet, author and educator who passed away at the age of 100 in December 2013. Yonia Fain served as a faculty member at Hofstra University in the department of Fine Arts, Design and Art History from 1971 until his retirement in 1985. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, he was named faculty emeritus by Hofstra University.

Born in the Ukraine in 1913, as a young child his family fled Bolshevik Russia and moved to Vilnius, Poland. Yonia received his education at the University of Vilnius and received both his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University. At the time of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Yonia and his first wife were living in Warsaw and they escaped on foot making it to Vladivostok, where Yonia was conscripted   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3441 characters.]  Artist bio

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