May 2, 2024

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A Gorgeous, Long-Lost Mural of the 10 Commandments Has Been Uncovered, Offering a Glimpse Into a Vanished Art Style

Artnet News

By Vittoria Benzine

A long-lost relic of Jewish folk art has been revealed after being hidden—but not forgotten—behind a wall for more than 30 years.

“The Lost Mural” is an interior apse painting created in 1910 by Ben Zion Black, a 24-year-old Lithuananian playwright, poet, and sign painter, for the former Chai Adam synagogue in Burlington, Vermont. Aaron Goldberg, a descendant of Burlington’s earliest Jewish residents, founded the Lost Mural Project to recover Black’s work.

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