本•沙恩是一位具有影响力的犹太艺术家和活动家，这是他的传记，文字抒情，插图精美。

本•沙恩在立陶宛长大，从小便善于观察，他渴望画出他所看到的一切——在看到他的父亲因为要求工人的权利而被沙皇放逐后，他也形成了一种强烈的正义感。

因此，当本和他的家人来到美国时，他也带来了自己敏锐的艺术眼光和为正义而战的愿望。在成长的过程中，他通过艺术为正义发声——让那些因为他是犹太人而欺负他的同学消除敌意，不服从老师让他画美丽的风景而不是真实的故事的强烈要求，敦促美国政府通过大萧条时期的法律来帮助人们找到食物和工作。

A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn

As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees―and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers’ rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too.

So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what’s right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art―by disarming classmates who bully him because he’s Jewish, by defying his teachers’ insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-

era laws to help people find food and jobs.