Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
Primary Hebrew Reader by Eliezer Vatrin and Israel Kaplan – Kaunas, 1939 – Illustrations
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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.
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.
Children's Books – Textbook for Teaching the Hebrew Alphabet
Children's Books – Textbook for Teaching the Hebrew Alphabet