Shirei Am Ivriyim [Hebrew Folk Songs], edited by Eliyahu HaCohen. [Be'er Orah], [1957]. illustrations by Ya'akov Gutterman.
A typewritten, mimeographed book with more than a thousand Hebrew folk songs, gathered and edited by the Researcher of Hebrew song Eliyahu HaCohen, future recipient of the Israel Prize, during his service as the commander of the Gadna (Youth Battalions) Farm in Be'er Orah.
The book contains songs that were set to music by the forefathers of Hebrew Music in Israel: Yoel Angel, Chanina Kerchevsky, Mordechai Zeira, Daniel Samborsky, Nissim Nessimov, and many others. The songs are ordered according to subjects (nature songs, songs of pioneership and the building of the country, songs of war and struggle, songs for holidays, and more), and are accompanied by illustrations by Ya'akov Gutterman. At the beginning of each chapter, an illustrated title page.
On one of the front endpapers, there is a Hebrew handwritten dedication, signed and dated – the 3rd of Iyar 1958: "To Shimon Peres, a gift for the tenth celebration of the independence of the State of Israel, from the Gadna department, Dov Nishri".
[306] leaves [varying pagination], 32cm. Good condition. Tears and open tears to the margins of several leaves (one tear is reinforced by tape). Half-leather cardboard binding, slightly worn.
Not in NLI.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.