Yiddish & Hebraica from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Quarto 19.8x16 cm. Original illustrated wrappers, with title page and 8 illustrations by Lissitzky. Mild toning, rubber stamp to front wrapper and p. 5. 10, [2] p. Unknown edition size. "After 1923, Lissitzky ceased illustrating Yiddish books and concentrated his great talents on Constructivism, photomontage and architectural design, making significant contributions in all of them... His illustrated Yiddish books remain unsurpassed… Read more about this item

Large quarto 34.5x27 cm., wrappers, 30(2) pp. Joseph Chaikov (1888-1979) is one of the most important artists of the Yiddish avant-garde. He worked extensively as a graphic artist during the heyday of Yiddish experimental modernism; he is noted for his sculpture in his later years. Here he has rendered a superb color zincograph cover here for a score of… Read more about this item

Folio 35.5x26.5 cm., wrappers, (2) pp. Cover design by Lissitzky for a music score by J. Engel. Yoel Engel (1868-1927) is known as "the founding father of the renaissance of Jewish music." As a composer, teacher, and organizer, Engel inspired a generation of Jewish classical musicians to rediscover their ethnic roots and create a new style of nationalist Jewish music… Read more about this item

Numbers 1-3. Each is quarto 26x17 cm., wrappers, 80, 80, 83 pp. No. 1 released in 3000 copies, No. 3 notes 2000. Cover design by Mark Chagall, who also provided a statement in No. 1. A literary-artistic journal, Shtrom was an organ of the Kultur-Lige which moved from Kyiv to Moscow in 1921. While not an official state publication, it… Read more about this item

Quarto 23x16 cm., original wrappers, (4) pp., here including cover. Cover design by Issachar Ber Ryback, musical composition by A. Dzimitrovski, lyrics by Leib Kvitko. This work is for women's choir with soprano or violin, as noted on rear cover. The notations and lyrics are hand-written. Leib Kvitko (1890-1952) and Issachar ber Ryback (1897-1935) are both renowned in Yiddish modernism… Read more about this item