Moshe Broderzon. Al’dos Guts - Maysehlech far Kinder.

(SZYK, ARTHUR).

Kultur-Lige

Warsaw

1922

Text in Yiddish. Illustrated throughout by Szyk. All 24 illustrations with Szyk’s Hebrew initials in the corner panels.

Just two copies located in WorldCat (JNUL and BL).

A collection of fantasy tales for children by the great Yiddish writer and promoter of the Jewish arts Moshe Broderzon (1890-1956). “The cover illustration for Al’dos Guts reveals a particularly personal connection between [Szyk] and this project. Szyk has portrayed Broderzon with his arm around two children, and has drawn himself showing the author and the children one of his illustrations. By injecting himself into this image, Szyk recognizes his responsibility as a creative Jewish artist in bringing Yiddish and Jewish culture to the next generation of Polish Jews.” See J.P. Ansell, Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole (2004) pp. 37-8.