Boris Dubrov

Boris Dubrov was born and studied art in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), and left for Israel in the age of 18 years. Much of his artistic growth rooted from years of military service in the Israel Defense Forces, close to the war and to the death. Boris began learning Torah when in the army and later got fascinated with the modern Hasidim culture of Israel which preserved the ways of the lost world of shtetl, pre-war Jewish communities in East Europe. This nostalgia became the subject of many realistic works created within more than ten years in an environment where ages-old national traditions have been part of everyday life.