Magda Nachman

“The story of Magda Nachman is engaging, in parts sad too, but Lina Bernstein keeps the energy up and writing style lively like a fun, adventure story. That is what is so unique about this biography published by Academic Studies Press. … Holding a 276 paged (hence, hefty too) biography written by a real teacher and researcher, shows serious and sincere work. An inspiring read.”
—Ashish Mohan Khokar, Narthaki

“A lost artist worthy of rediscovery, [Magda Nachman] is of vital interest to Bombay. … [This] riveting narrative covers continents engulfed by cataclysmic events in defining epochs. Bernstein tells a tremendous story with compassion and confidence, its research crisscrossing America, Russia, Germany, and Bombay, Pune and Baroda in India.”

—Meher Marfatia, Mid-day

“What a story! An epic tale of Bernstein’s passionate search for Magda Nachman, an artist whose life was an achievement on the order of her marvelous painting. Biography at its finest, Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile draws the reader along on a gripping and rewarding saga that takes the teller from Russia to Berlin to London to Bombay, to find an artist who persevered in her art despite almost insurmountable odds. Beautifully written, Bernstein’s book has the immediacy of a novel.” 

— Mary V. Dearborn, author of Hemingway: A Biography and Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim