A Dada founder’s artist colony replaced a Palestinian farming village

Evidence

As one example among many hundreds, Susan Slyomovics has written movingly and revealingly of how Ein Hod, an Israeli artist colony established in 1953 by Marcel Janco, one of Dada’s initiators, eventually replaced Ein Houd, a pre-existing Palestinian farming village south of Haifa. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 628

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• SHARE: The irony that a Dada initiator — an avant-garde movement historically anti-nationalist — founded the artist colony that displaced a Palestinian village is a striking tidbit.