Herzl Kashetsky: A Painter of Remembrance Herzl Jacob Kashetsky (born February 13, 1950) stands as a significant voice in contemporary memorial art—a Canadian realist painter whose oeuvre is fundamentally devoted to honoring victims of the Holocaust. His artistic journey commenced in Saint John, New Brunswick, nurtured by an early fascination for drawing and painting shared with his brother, Joseph, who possessed a kindred spirit for visual arts. This formative influence steered Kashetsky toward formal education at Concordia University Montréal Québec (1972), where he earned his BFA and coll…