Fritz Eichenberg d 30 yrs ago, Nov 30 1990. One of the modern masters of wood engraving, his life changed with his meeting #DorothyDay. He illustrated her *Long Loneliness* and freely contributed his iconic images to The Catholic Worker.
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A refugee from Hitler’s Germany, he became a Quaker and achieved renown for his illustrations of literary classics. But in the CW he found a way to express his deepest moral and spiritual convictions. I edited a collection of his CW art, *Works of Mercy*
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“It is my hope that in a smalll way I have been able to contribute to peace through compassion and also to the recognition, as George Fox has said ... ‘That there is that of God in everyone,’ a conception of the sanctity of human life which precludes all wars and violence.”
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His woodcuts for Jane Eyre unforgettably shaped the novel for me.
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