Bereishith [“In the Beginning”].

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(RUSSIA)

printer

Druckerei Gutenberg

Place

Moscow-Leningrad (i.e. Berlin)

Publication

1926

Description

Hebrew text. With striking color cover designed by Joseph Tchaikov.

references

Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution, no. 66 (illustrated).

summary

The first publication of a Hebrew literary miscellany set up by a group of young Hebrew writers in the Soviet Union. Type-set in Leningrad, it was printed in Berlin. The work was edited by Abraham Krivochko (A. Kariv) and includes a story by Isaac Babel. The brilliant front cover was created by Tchaikov, a striking design of Revolutionary ideas. The letters of the title are dramatic, symbolically beginning and ending with the color red. “The combination of colors and theatrical effects is striking…[the cover design] has the challenging element of a dramatic opening.” See Ch. Abramsky, “Yiddish Book Illustrations in Russia: 1916-1923” in Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution, p. 68.

pp. 199, (5). Original cloth-backed color pictorial printed boards, shaken, extremities rubbed. Lg. 8vo.

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