At the station that marks the end of the exhibition, we will look at the timeline describing milestones in Kaplan's life, and get to know the main stations on the train that started its journey in the shtetl, and ended up here.

Shalom Aleichem's children's tales describe colorful human moments from the Jewish yearly cycle. In the prints based on the stories "Dmei Chanukah" and "Visiting with King Ahasuerus" Kaplan deals with the scarcity that the Jewish families were ...

Shalom Aleichem's corpus is full of tales for children that, from a childish viewpoint, also cover painful issues such as dealing with violence and poverty . Among the many children who grew up on these tales is Kaplan himself – who, in the ser...

Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) is an open wound in the city's history. Kaplan, who lived and worked in the city for most of his adult life, returned to his home when the siege was lifted, and created a series of prints...

In Shalom Aleichem's best-known work – “Tuvia the Milkman” - the author skillfully makes connections between a multitude of opposites: between laughter and tears, between longing for the past and longing for the future, and between Russian revo...

In the novella "The Song of Songs" Shalom Aleichem paints a portrait of youthful love that is full of innocence, and looks at young love with both a childish and an adult point of view. Kaplan's series of prints following the novella captures t...

Kaplan's art is in many ways also a work of translation: the translation of literary and textual worlds into the language of form and color. At this station we will see the prints he created based on Jewish folk songs, in which his work of tran...

Anatoly Kaplan's surprising interpretation of the well-known Pesach verse, which ranges between the Communist Party and the vision of Isaiah

Three exceptional paintings by Kaplan offer a glimpse of the daily life of the Jews of the Soviet Union, the tensions they faced, the losses they suffered, and the loves they experienced.

Shalom Aleichem, the hero of Kaplan's works, was also a cultural hero in the Soviet Union, afforded an iconic status that no Yiddish writer had achieved before him. At this station we will discover his strong ties with Lev Tolstoy and Maxim Gor...

Shalom Aleichem's early novel "Fishke the Lame" offers a colorful catalogue of the various and odd characters that made up the Jewish community in the 19th century. In the engravings he created based on the novel, Kaplan turned this catalogue i...

Although Kaplan was known as a printmaker, it is hard to find an artistic technique that he did not experiment with. At this station we will get to know the ceramic works, plates and sculptures that he produced, and we will discover that even a...

Stempenyu is a talented and captivating Jewish violinist, and also - a skirt chaser. Kaplan's lithographs depict the events of the hero of Shalom Aleichem's first novel, and his persistent courtships that almost bear fruit.

Shalom Aleichem's magical and enigmatic novella, "The Enchanted Tailor", is based on an amusing tale of Chelm that, under the author's hand, takes a dark and gloomy turn. Together we will get to know the underlying plot line, and discover the l...

hen Shalom Aleichem's stepmother hurled lively insults at him, he decided to turn them into the raw material for his first literary work. This was the first step on the artistic path of the writer who turned tears into laughter, and won an extr...

After Stalin's death, the censorship restrictions imposed on artists were slightly eased, and Kaplan had the opportunity to address the tensions and complexities facing the Jews of the Soviet Union directly. The work "My Nakhumke" illustrates t...

The memory of the shtetl, the little Jewish town, is the driving force behind the works of Kaplan and of Shalom Aleichem. In the footsteps of the "Stempenyu" series created after Shalom Aleichem, and the "Rogachov" series following Kaplan's chi...

From a talented boy who painted entrance signs for the shops in the shtetl, Anatoly Kaplan became one of the great artists of the 20th century. At the beginning of the audio tour following the exhibition, we will get a taste of the start of his...