BOREKH (BORIS) ARONSON (October 31, 1898-November 16,
1980)
Born in Nyezhin (Nizhyn), Ukraine, where his father, R.
Shloyme, was the rabbi. At age ten he
moved with his parents to Kiev. He
received both a Jewish and a general education.
In 1916 he was a student at the Kiev Art School. In 1919-1920 he was a manager of the art
studio at the Culture League in Kiev. He
studied in Moscow. He decorated A.
Vayter’s drama “Far tog” (Dawn) for the Moscow Jewish art theater. In 1923 he was in Berlin to participate in
the major art show there. From 1924 he
was living in the United States. He
belonged to the modernist group of Jewish painters, and he published articles
in Oyfgang (Arise) (put out by “Kultur lige” [Culture league], 1919), Bikher-velt
(Book world) (1922), and Tealit (Theater and literature), among others. He published in Russian a major work entitled
Sovremennaia evreiskaia grafika (Contemporary Jewish graphics) (Berlin:
Petropolis, 1923), 104 pp., and a monograph, Mark shagal (Marc Chagall),
translated from the Russian original by Sholem Ben-Borekh (pen name of Yitskhok Kharlash) (Berlin: Petropolis,
1924), 31 pp. He also published in
French: Boris Aronson et l’art du théâtre (Boris Aronson et the art of
the theater) [Paris, 1928], reproductions of his stage scenery with an
introduction by Waldemar-George (16 pp. in journal format, 32 images). He lived in New York and worked as well as a
stage designer for the English theater.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1, pp. 63-64; Z. Zilbertsvayg, Teater-leksikon,
vol. 1, p. 90; A. Mukdoni, in Tsukunft (February 1929).
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