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MARCUS-SZALIT, RACHEL

Klal Verlag

Berin

1922

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

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