Chad Gadya

zz LISSITZKY, EL

I. Hendlera for Kultur Lige

Warsaw

1923

Second edition. One of 1,000 copies.

cf. Busch-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky (1987) no. 1930/1; Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution (1987) no. 91 i-xi (illustrated)

“Lissitzky’s most splendid Jewish work...While the traditional Chad Gadya story demonstrates the ultimate power of God over evil and death, Lissitzky illustrates the story in such a way as to also include his new messianic view of redemption through the Communist revolution.” See R. Apter-Gabriel, El Lissitzky’s Jewish Works (in IM Cat.) pp.111-18 The exceptionally rare first edition appeared in 1919. This second edition with a two-color cover (blue with red letters), is otherwise entirely similar to the first edition, although the illustrations are accomplished in black-and-white