Lot 238
Menachem Birnbaum – "Chad Gadjo" – Berlin, 1920 – Color Lithographs
Chad Gadjo. German translation by Uriel Birnbaum, illustrations by Menachem Birnbaum. Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920. Aramaic and German.
Bilingual edition, Aramaic-German, of the piyyut Chad Gadjo, with ten illustrations (color lithographs) by the artist Menachem Birnbaum.
Menachem Birnbaum (1893-1944?), a Jewish artist, caricaturist and book-illustrator, born in Vienna. Murdered during the Holocaust. Brother of the expressionist artist, illustrator and poet Uriel Birnbaum (who translated the Piyyut). Their father, the important Zionist philosopher Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937) was famed for coining the terms Zionismus (Zionism) and Ostjuden in his newspaper, Der Colonist.
[15] ff., 29 cm. Good condition. Stains. Original binding (two card sheets attached with four strings), with stains and blemishes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
