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AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 186

MARCUS-SZALIT, RACHEL

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Sixteen illustrated plates each with artist's signature in pencil below image. Illustrations to Sholom Aleichem's story "Motel Peysi dem Chazan's Yingel." Introduction by "Baal Machshoves" (Israel Isidor Elyashev), pioneering Yiddish literary critic. Unopened Bound into recent limp boards. Folio

Berin: Klal Verlag 1922

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $700

The artist of this charming illustrated book, Rachel Marcus-Szalit (1894-1942), was born in Lodz, Poland. After studying at the Art Academy of Munich she married the Jewish actor, Julius Szalit. Gravitating to Berlin, Marcus-Szalit became a member of the November Group - young avant-garde artists who coalesced after the November Revolution of 1918. When the Nazis rose to power, she fled to France, nonetheless she was however deported to a concentration camp where she died. See EJ, Vol. XV, col. 656. See also E. Gordon, Iyurim Ivriyim: Ha-Sepher ha-Ivri ha-Me’uyar li-Yeladim (2005) p.110