Der Nister (Pinchas Kahanovich). Mayselech in Parzan [“Fairy Tales”]. Text in Yiddish

(CHAGALL, MARC)

Kultur Lige

Warsaw

1921

Third edition. Cover designed by CHAGALL with additional illustration on title

cf. Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution no. 144 (goat only) and no. 144 vi and fig. 25 (illustrated)

This third enlarged edition includes the two original stories by Der Nister from the first edition (Vilna, 1917). The first edition, entitled A Mayse Mit a Hon, dos Tsigele [A Story About a Rooster, The Little Kid] was the first Yiddish children’s book. The image of the goat, which first appeared in the first edition and is repeated in this third edition is a continuous motif in Chagall’s art; a symbolic reference to the artist’s original family name “Segel”/Tsigel