Lot 114
Album of Illustrations by Ber Horowitz - Actors of the play "The Dybbuk"
The album contains 39 reproductions of drawings by Ber Horowitz, with portraits of "Habima's" actors participating in the play [Vienna? - late 1930s].
The drawings were drawn by Horowitz during a tour of the play in Europe in 1938. The album opens with a leaf bearing the Yiddish title, handwritten by the artist: "Ber Horowitz – Habima's Dybbuk 1". Horowitz, born 1895, was murdered in the Holocaust in 1942. It is likely that the drawings presented here were meant to be published as an illustrations booklet and that this is in fact a draft of such a booklet, which was never published. [41 leaves], folder 29.5 cm. Good condition. Tears on the first and last leaves.
