Gadi Pollack

Gadi Pollack (; born 1969/1970

Biography Early life and education Gadi Pollack was born in Odesa to an unobservant Jewish family. His family then moved to Moscow due to his father Yona Pollack being an officer in the Soviet army. Gadi Pollack's grandfather, Moshe Yehuda Pollack, was a religious Jew who was murdered by Ukrainian peasants; his wife died of typhus while attempting to flee. Despite this, at the age of ten he asked his father to let him attend art school. He married and started learning in a kollel. He met illustrator and asked for help in finding clients, which led Pollack to meet Baruch Chait, a composer and author of Jewish books for youth. They collaborated to make multiple books, the first book which Gadi Pollack illustrated being Tell Me What You Think. He does not allow the media in interviews with him to publish photos of him to protect his anonymity. He learns every day in a kollel with fellow artist David Goldschmidt and does most of his work at nighttime.