Diaries of Yehuda Bacon
Abstract
This collection holds the diaries of the Israeli artist Yehuda Bacon.
Dates
- Creation: 1945-2015
Creator
- Bacon, Yehuda, 1929- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in Czech, German, Hebrew and English.
Use Restrictions
There are restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Juedisches Museum Berlin, 9-14 Lindenstrasse, 10969 Berlin, Germany
email: http://www.lbi.org/ask
Biographical Note
Yehuda Bacon was born in 1929 in Moravska Ostrava, then Czechoslovakia. At age thirteen he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1946 he emigrated to Palestine with the help of Youth Aliyah. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where he became a professor of graphic and drawing in 1959.
Extent
15 Boxes
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in fifteen series:
- Series I: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1945-1948
- Series II: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1948-1952
- Series III: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1952-1955
- Series IV: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1955-1960
- Series V: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1960-1964
- Series VI: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1964-1969
- Series VII: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1969-1977
- Series VIII: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1977-1983
- Series VIX: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1983-1988
- Series X: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1988-1992
- Series XI: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1992-1998
- Series XII: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1998-2002
- Series XIII: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 2002-2007
- Series XIV: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 2007-2012
- Series XV: The Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 2012-2015
Subject
- Bacon, Yehuda, 1929- (Person)
- Betsalʼel (Academy) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Diaries of Yehuda Bacon, 1945-2015 LBI-JMB-2015.1
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The inventory is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
