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Author: Skye Iwanski
Searching for Moshe Rynecki
by, Skye Iwanski
September 26, 2017

Elizabeth Rynecki is the author of Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for her Lost Art Legacy published by NAL/Berkley/Penguin Random House in September 2016. An odyssey spanning generations, decades, and countries, Chasing Portraits is the true story of Elizabeth Rynecki’s search for the lost art of her great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki. His unique paintings focused primarily on the Jewish-Polish community in Warsaw between the first and… [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Elizabeth Rynecki, Fox Cities Book Festival, Holocaust Era Art, Moshe Rynecki, Poland
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The Nuances of Scummy and Murky
by, Skye Iwanski
July 18, 2017

When describing lake water, the words scummy and murky convey very different images, even though they’re synonyms. I had a preconceived notion of the word murky. I believed it portrayed water as dark, cloudy, and difficult to see through. I understood the word scummy to mean water that has a layer of algae on top of it, making it unpleasant to swim in or to… [Read More]

Filed Under: dictionary, synonyms, thesauraus
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