Bregman, P. and Kerkuz, S.H. Sephath Yeladim, Part One and Part Two [Hebrew primers with illustrations]

(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)

n.p.

Irkutsk, Siberia

(1908)

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Numerous illustrations, including one in color

Following the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad that linked European and Asiatic Russia, new Jewish communities began to spring up in the hitherto inaccessible hinterland of Siberia in the early 20th-century. Most prominent among these remote Siberian Jewish communities was that of Irkutsk. These children’s textbooks for the instruction of the Hebrew language were issued by the “National Committee of the Israelite Communities of Siberia and the Urals.”