Hebräische Buchstabenbilder ]pictures of the Hebrew alphabet[, by Nathan Adler. Fürth: Georg Rosenberg, 1904.
Folder containing 30 printed cards. 23 of the cards show the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, designed as various objects – utensils, structures, plants, and more, whose name in German is reminiscent of the sound of the Hebrew letter (for instance, the letter Lamed is designed as a lamp – Leuchter; the letter Pe is designed as a barrel – Fass). The other seven cards show the Hebrew vowel points, using various imageries – two eggs in a nest representing Tzere, a hand holding a watch for Kubutz, a pensive boy for Cholam, and more.
The cards were printed following the Hebrew instruction method of Nathan Adler, teacher in the Jewish secondary school in Fürth. Adler explains the theory behind his method in a book he published alongside the cards: "Die Renaissance des alten hebräischen Lese-Unterrichts im Lichte der modernen Methodik: eine didaktische Studie" (The Renaissance of Ancient Hebrew Reading Instruction in Light of Modern Methodology: a Didactic Study).
Nathan Adler (1879-1942), Jewish-German educator and children's writer, born in Burgpreppach, Bavaria. He taught in Jewish schools un Fürth, Ansbach and Nuremberg. Published articles on pedagogy and several books for children and youth about Jewish tradition. His children reached Palestine before the Holocaust, but he and his wife Miriam (née Rothschild), were deported to Riga, where they were murdered.
[1] f., VII, 23 plates (one double card). 24 cm. Good condition. Double card torn in half (at fold). Stains. Minor abrasions to corners and edges of several cards. Blemishes and minor stains to folder.

Kunst Aleph Bet [Artistic Alphabet], Moshe Koussevitzky. Published by the author, Bialystok; Progress Press, Poland, 1935. Introduction in Hebrew and in Yiddish.
The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, illustrations by Moshe Koussevitzky. From the introduction: "I set out to create the Aleph-Bet in pictures that come to life… each letter will be presented as a human figure, in movement and exercise...".
[20] ff., 21.5X29 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Minor blemishes. Cover detached. Tears to spine. Pen notation on inside front cover.

Alphon Ivri [Primary Hebrew Reader] by Eliezer Vatrin and Israel (Yisrael) Kaplan, illustrations by A. [Aharon?] Perl. Kaunas [Kovno]: A. Ptašeko, [1939].
Primary Hebrew reader, for the purpose of teaching basic Hebrew reading skills to children, by the educators Eliezer Vatrin and Israel Kaplan, accompanied by color illustrations. The book offers lessons aimed at teaching the Hebrew alphabet. It includes basic reading segments from the writings of noted Hebrew authors and poets, such as Jacob Fichman, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Levin Kipnis, Itzhak Katzenelson, and others. At the end of the book are two detachable pages bearing printed letters meant to be cut out in order to piece together words and letter combinations.
Title page inscribed (in Hebrew) by Natan Goren (Greenblatt; 1887-1956), an author, journalist, educator, and Zionist activist in Lithuania and Palestine.
Israel (Yisrael) Kaplan (1902-2003), historian and author, native of Volozhin (Vałožyn), Russia (today Belarus). Worked as a teacher in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania). In 1924, he began publishing books, plays, and articles, and functioned as the editor of a number of literary journals. Survived the Holocaust, having persevered through a number of ghettoes and forced-labor camps, and immigrated to Israel in 1949. When the Holocaust was still raging, he made a point of documenting life in the ghetto and its inmates' black humor. Once in Israel, he became one of the first historians to systematically compile and publish eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, and of life in the ghettoes and camps. He was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize for outstanding contributions to Yiddish literature. Passed away in Jerusalem.
Eliezer Vatrin, educator, taught Hebrew language and history at Kaunas's Hebrew Secondary School. Perished in the Holocaust.
The book was presumably illustrated by Aharon Perl, a sculptor and graduate of the Kaunas Academy of Art. He, too, was most likely murdered by the Nazis.
Not in OCLC.
96 pp., [3] ff., approx. 32.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minute worming to several leaves, repaired (with minor damage to text and illustrations). Inscription in ink to title page. Blemishes and abrasions to binding.

Two Yiddish books for learning the alphabet. New York, 1939 and 1945.
1." Fun Aleph Biz Tov" by Aleph Katz [Moshe Avraham Katz]. Illustrated by Joseph Schoor. New York: Alef, 1939.
[16] ff., approx. 22.5 cm. Some stains. Wrappers detached and split at spine. Creases and minor marginal tears to wrappers.
2. "Mayn a-b" by Y. Kaminski. Illustrations by N. Koslowsky [Nota Koslowsky]. New York: Brider Kaminski, 1945.
[24] ff., 15.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Cloth tape to spine.