Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
"Shtilim," Illustrated Children's Magazine – Issue No. 6-7 – With Illustrations by El Lissitzky for the Story "Wise King Solomon and the Honey Bee" by Hayim Nahman Bialik
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"Shtilim," illustrated children's magazine. Editor: M. Ben Eliezer; Publisher: M. Zlatopolski. Issue No. 6-7 (single magazine). Moscow: Omanut HaDfus (printer details in Russian), November 5, 1917.
Issue No. 6-7 of the children's magazine "Shtilim," under the editorship of the journalist Moshe Ben-Eliezer. This issue includes illustrations by El (Eliezer) Lissitzky for the story "Wise King Solomon and the Honey Bee" by Hayim Nahman Bialik, and they are the only known illustrations by Lissitzky for original Hebrew texts. (See "Tradition and Revolution, The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art, 1912-1928," exhibition catalogue, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, item no. 77, p. 107).
The magazine "Shtilim" was the first journal to be published by "Omanut" publishing house, which had just been established in Moscow at the time (following the purchase by Shoshana Persitz of the "Art of Print" press) at the initiative of the publisher Moshe Zlatopolski, son of the philanthropist Hillel Zlatopolski. The magazine was irregularly published in Moscow over a period of less than a year. Its issues contained works by some of the greatest of Hebrew authors and poets such as Hayim Nahman Bialik, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Yakov Fichman, Eliezer Steinman, and others, as well as legends and translations of internationally known literary works. It also featured news items from Palestine and the world at large.
The bottom half of the title page is missing, and the first illustration by Lissitzky is therefore incomplete.
63 pp., approx. 25 cm. Good-fair condition. One leaf missing (pp. 57-58). Minor stains and blemishes. Minor tears to edges of cover (somewhat affecting text). Spine missing. Inked stamps to front cover.
Issue No. 6-7 of the children's magazine "Shtilim," under the editorship of the journalist Moshe Ben-Eliezer. This issue includes illustrations by El (Eliezer) Lissitzky for the story "Wise King Solomon and the Honey Bee" by Hayim Nahman Bialik, and they are the only known illustrations by Lissitzky for original Hebrew texts. (See "Tradition and Revolution, The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art, 1912-1928," exhibition catalogue, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, item no. 77, p. 107).
The magazine "Shtilim" was the first journal to be published by "Omanut" publishing house, which had just been established in Moscow at the time (following the purchase by Shoshana Persitz of the "Art of Print" press) at the initiative of the publisher Moshe Zlatopolski, son of the philanthropist Hillel Zlatopolski. The magazine was irregularly published in Moscow over a period of less than a year. Its issues contained works by some of the greatest of Hebrew authors and poets such as Hayim Nahman Bialik, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Yakov Fichman, Eliezer Steinman, and others, as well as legends and translations of internationally known literary works. It also featured news items from Palestine and the world at large.
The bottom half of the title page is missing, and the first illustration by Lissitzky is therefore incomplete.
63 pp., approx. 25 cm. Good-fair condition. One leaf missing (pp. 57-58). Minor stains and blemishes. Minor tears to edges of cover (somewhat affecting text). Spine missing. Inked stamps to front cover.
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