Fun der Vaytns [“From Afar”]. A drama by TZVI HIRSCHKORN

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 504

(ELMAN, JOSEPH)

Fun der Vaytns [“From Afar”]. A drama by TZVI HIRSCHKORN

With cover and one illustration on p. 115 by JOSEPH ELMAN. Logo of the Yidisher Folks Farlag on lower cover by ELIEZER LISSITZKY. Monogram on inside of lower cover by ISSACHAR RYBACK pp.114, (12). Lightly browned. Original printed illustrated wrappers. 12mo Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution p. 113 (illustrated) and no. 110

Kiev: Yidisher Folks Farlag, c. 1914

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Not much is known of Elman’s life, though it is believed that he took part in the ethnographic tour organized by the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society in 1915-16, along with Lissitzky and Ryback and studied silver ceremonial objects and synagogue wood carvings. Lissitzky’s popularity as an illustrator is attested to by the logo designs he produced for the major Jewish publishing houses. This particular design for the Yidisher Folks Farlag appears on a large number of the books published by this house. See Ruth Apter-Gabriel, “El Lissitzky’s Jewish Works” in IMC, Tradition and Revolution, p. 109