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Chagall to the idea of im-
mersing the audience in his
painting that when
Moscow's newly founded State
Jewish Chamber Theater com-
missioned him to design sets and
costumes for three Sholem Ale-
ichem plays in 1921, he created
seven large murals (covering 43.5
square meters, or 130.5 square
feet), which completely dominat-
ed the tiny auditorium.
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Russian museum storerooms and
private collections, the murals
and 50 other earlier works, paint-
ings and sketches, are now on dis-
play at the Israel Museum in
"Chagall: Dreams and Drama."
The triumphant, wildly color-
ful, joyful murals are "the jewel
in the crown" of the exhibition,
said show curator Ruth Apter-
Gabriel. They have been hung in
the museum's exhibition halls
just as they appeared on the
walls of the Jewish Chamber
Theater.
"The Chagall show has double
importance for Israelis," Ms.
Apter-Gabriel said. "Of course
there's the artistic significance of
these beautiful works. But, be-
yond that, so many Israelis were
born in Russia and are very much
aware of the Jewish cultural re-
birth that provided the atmos-
phere for the creation of these
murals. We are very excited and
grateful that our relations with
Russia have allowed these paint-
ings to travel, especially since
they have never been seen out-
robats wearing tefillin stand on
their hands, women bang wash-
pans while cows with birds on
their horns float upside down. A
woman gives birth, a fiddler does
the splits with a violin on his
nose, dinner is served and an au-
dience applauds.
Almost all of the figures, Cha-
gall said, represented real friends,
foes, mentors and fools in his life
— the acts they are engaged in
symbolic of some aspect of Jew-
ish cultural life of the period.
Figures fly throughout the mu-
rals, with Chagall, like his flying
figures, hovering "above any
movement or doctrine," Ms.
Apter-Gabriel said.
In 1921, Chagall's murals were
rehung in the Moscow Theater's
new building. One year later, fol-
lowing serious disputes with the
theater, a bitter Chagall — who
was never paid for his work —
left for Paris.
In 1937, the murals were re-
moved, rolled up, and stored un-
der the theater's stage.
Eventually, they were trans-
ferred to a drum and stored in a
church building used as a ware-
Left: Marc Chagall
house for the State Tretyakov
with actor Solomon
Gallery.
Michoels.
In 1973, Chagall visited Rus-
sia and was allowed to sign his
Below: Chagall's 1920 murals. But his requests that
"Dance": Fiddlers
they again be exhibited were re-
fiddling and cows,
jected. Only in 1989 did restora-
upside-down.
tion work on the works finally
begin.
Made possible by Russia's de-
sire to initiate a new era of cul-
tural cooperation with Israel,
according to Russian Ambas-
sador to Israel Alexander Bovin,
the exhibit together with couri-
ers, restorers and official Russ-
ian guests, was brought free to
Israel by Lufthansa German
Airlines.
side Russia. From here, they will
return to Russia and who knows
when they will travel abroad
again."
The murals' representation of
Jewish tradition, Russian folk-
art and vanguard modernist art
was so powerful, Ms. Apter-
Gabriel said, that they actually
influenced acting and production
styles in the theater. The com-
plexity of the murals' imagery
and the number and range of sto-
ries being told reflect their
creation at a
unique moment
in Russian Jewry
history — imme-
diately after the
1917 Revolution
when Jews were
first granted full
Russian citizen-
ship, and albeit
shortlived, a Jew-
ish renaissance
was under way.
Introduction to
the Jewish The-
ater, for example,
is the most nar-
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