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Reuven Rubin
Romanian-born Israeli painter
Reuven Rubin (Hebrew: ראובן רובין, Yiddish: רובין זעליקאָװיטש; November 13, 1893 – October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.[1]
Biography
Reuven Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin)[2] was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian JewishHasidic family.
His father, Rebbe Yoel, served as a synagogue cantor and beadle, and his mother Faige, a rabbi's daughter, was married in an arranged match at the age of 15.[3] Reuven was the eighth of 13 children, of whom only three survived.[1] His artistic talent began to emerge at the age of three, while studying in cheder, a religious school for boys.
Some of his paintings, sent in by his brother's friend, were published in a children's magazine, but his interest in art received no encouragement at home.
After creating a mizrah plaque for a synagogue in his hometown, he began to attraction attention and wo