Arthur
Szyk (June 3, 1894 – September 13,
1951[1]) was a Polish-born Jewish artist who worked primarily as a book
illustrator and political artist throughout his career. Arthur Szyk was
born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family in Łódź,[2][3] in the
part of Poland which was under Russian rule in the 19th century. An
acculturated Polish Jew, Szyk always proudly regarded himself both as a
Pole and a Jew.[4] From 1921, he lived and created his works mainly in
France and Poland, and in 1937 he moved to the United Kingdom. In 1940,
he settled permanently in the United States, where he was granted
American citizenship in 1948.