Lot 352
Ryback, Issachar
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Life in the shtetl [Shtetl, mayn khoyever heym; a gedenknish/Shetl, my destroyed home; a remembrance]. Berlin: Verlag Schwellen, 1922. Oblong folio, 30 lithographic plates including two title pages, limited to 250 copies, small neat inscription on first page, original purple felt binding with screen printed lion motif and Hebrew lettering to upper cover, covers and spine a little faded and rubbed, hinges slightly weak, the Contents leaf on a smaller sheet of paper is loosely inserted,
Footnote
Note: Issachar Ryback depicts scenes from the lives of the Jewish community in his shtetl, or small town, in Ukraine, before it was destroyed by the pogroms which followed the end of the First World War. Ryback is often compared with Chagall, and illustrates many of the same subjects that Chagall studied in his early years. A copy of the book is described in an Israel Museum exhibition catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art, 1912-1928, edited by Ruth Apter-Gabriel.