The book showcases key recent new acquisitions and long-term loans to the Ben Uri Collection, arranged to reflect both Ben Uri's own history and three principal waves of migration to the UK. The first wave of Jewish migration to the East End, c. 1870-1914 is represented by objects including two rare carved wooden plates - one by Ben Uri's founder Lazar Berson and the second by the Ben Uri Studio, five superb paintings by ‘Whitechapel Boy’ Mark Gertler from the Luke Gertler Bequest (on loan with Art Fund support), and three post-First World War works by fellow ‘Whitechapel Boy’ David Bomberg, including a fine Jerusalem landscape.
The so-called ‘Hitler émigrés’, who came to the UK, principally in the mid to late 1930s, are represented by artists including important work by Adler, Berson, Bomberg, Gaudier-Brzeska, Howson, Marvena, Michonze and Penn.
