A Life Etched in Eastern European Light: The World of Jehudo Meier Epstein Jehudo Meier Epstein, born into a humble family in Slonjsk, Minsk, Russia (1870), was an artist whose life and work became inextricably linked to the poignant realities of Eastern European Jewish existence. His early years were steeped in the traditions of his community—a thorough Jewish education punctuated by the observance of holy days that would later resonate deeply within his artistic vision. Though a memoir from 1929, ‘My Journey from East to West’, speaks fondly of these formative experiences, Epstein’s path d…