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Issachar Ber Ryback illustrations. Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance. Most of the lithographs done in 1917. He was truly at the fore of the Yiddish avant-garde.
"Zvířátka" written by I.Novak and illustrated by V. Junek, published in Czechoslovakia in 1952.
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"Zvířátka" written by I.Novak and illustrated by V. Junek, published in Czechoslovakia in 1952
Wonderful, needed cuteness overload.
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Shtetl life by Chagall (1917) - two tales in verse composed by Pinchus Kahanovich, a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator and critic known as "Der Nister" [The Hidden One]
Shtetl life by Chagall, who combines Modernist elements with traditional Jewish iconography - 'faux naif' - a Yiddish book from 1917
"frogs, large and small. At home, I arranged housing for them between the window frames, laid grass. I put some change in the water cans. The family laughed at him, and he drew and drew. First on the watman and on the Alexandrian paper, then on whatever you have..."
"He came across a small forest swamp and became interested: a wonderful life, unlike ours. I made sketches. Then I picked grass and various twigs, caught dragonflies, spiders, floating beetles, some other flying and floating trifles without a name, collected snails, tadpoles...
"Let's Study" is a beautiful Georgian avant-garde children's book written by Taso Zaalishvili and illustrated by S. Zaalishvili in 1928.
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"Our Enemies" written in Ukrainian by Yakov Hlemensky and illustrated by Israil Nizhnik in 1931. Enemy number one in soviet times was a lazy person! #soviet #sovietart