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Clara Julia Escalera

Hadass Gilboa , Litho Werkstatt Teltow 

Eliza Jane Coyle

Hannah Mitchelle Provisor 

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Annelisa Leinbach

Professor Kerry Wallach - Biography of Rahel Szalit

Gail Prensky- JudischeKulturbundProject

Dr. Eva Atlan-  Back into the Light Four Women Artists – Their Works, Their Paths Book

Production and writing 

Written, produced, and mixed by me Hani Esther Indictor Portner  with technical advising by Rocket Loam 

Many thanks to Dr. Anna-Carola Krausse for her work writing, researching, and curating exhibitions on Laserstein, helping her work become recognized again, and the interest in her life be renewed in Germany. 

Research support

Thank you to the kind librarians at Spinnboden, the  Akademie Der Kunst, The Judische Gemeinde Library, The  Zentral Landes Bibliotek, Jewish Museum, Berlinische Gallerie, and Stadt Bibliotek.

Donate to the archiv zentrum! 

https://www.betterplace.org/de/organisations/56507-spinnboden-lesbenarchiv-bibliothek-e-v

Music/Sounds

Gazing by Andy G. Cohen from the Free Music Archive Released under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 International Attribution License

Easy Going Music Loop by Seth_Makes_Sounds  from  Freesound.org number 691837 Released Under  Creative Commons 0

 Morning in Nebraska.aiff by Danjocross  from Freesound.org number  503209Releasesed Under  Creative Commons 0

Sunshine On The Pool by Jangwa from the free music archive Released under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 International Attribution License

This episode featured the following incredible music by  Tzipporah played with permission from the artist. 

-Olam Chesed Yivaneh, Tzipporah

https://tzipporah.bandcamp.com/track/olam-chesed-yivaneh-rabbi-menachem-creditor-cover

-Eshet Chayil (Woman of Valor) 

https://tzipporah.bandcamp.com/track/eshet-chayil-woman-of-valor

I have also  used the following  public domain classical music recordings made available by the Open Educational Resources on Music created by Ulrich Kaiser

Béla Bartók’s - 83 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Sz 83 A2 Andante played by the Radio-Symphony-Orchestra Berlin  Conducted by Ferenc Fricsay

Additional voices by the talented Hannah Mitchell Provisor. 

Special Thanks 

To Mara for her editorial and writing support +  love and inspiration, 

Boba 4 cute cat vibes

Rocket for helping me learn how to use a microphone and make the series sound as nice as possible, 

 Nana for helping me with my query letter so that I could find so many amazing people to interview, 

Grammy for giving me advice on how to interview people, and inspiring my music choices

Tzipporah for letting me feature such beautiful music.  

Listen and support : bandcamp  ,  instagram , website,  linktree,  spotify

Melissa Wertheimer who wrote an online research guide to Jewish Composers

Daniel Carkner who compiled and researched to write an incredible blog post about Klezmer that became public domain in the US in 2024

Rebecca Ness for permission to talk about this Artwork, Self Portrait with a Cat (After Laserstein)

I have done my best to fact-check and provide sources for all of my work, if something is missing or doesn’t sound right, or you just want to tell me what you think of the series, send me an email at passingpaintbrush@gmail.com. 

This is a project hosted by the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive and funded by Demokratie in Der Mitte’s Aktionsfund 

Links to view paintings 

1. Die Mutter der Künstlerin, Meta Laserstein vor Häusern ~1921
2. Im GastHaus- 1927
3. Am Motorad - At the Motorcycle- 1929
4. Abend über Potsdam- 1930
5. Ich und mein Modell -1929/1930
6. Russisches Mädchen mit Puderdose- 1928
7. Im Meinem Atelier-1928
8. Polly Tieck 1929 
9. Selbstportrait mit Katze 1928
10. The Émigré (Dr. Walter Lindenthal) 1941