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Lot #
17716
Auction End Date
4/24/2007 10:49:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Psalms
Title (Hebrew)
תהלים
Author
[First Ed.] Saul Raskin, Illus.
City
New York
Publisher
Academy Photo Offset
Publication Date
1942
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition. 160 pp., 347:255 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, with dj.
Detailed
Description
Text in Hebrew, English & Yiddish is printed on heavy paper in columns. English translation by Dr. B. Halper, the Yiddish translation is by Yehoash, illustrated by Saul Raskin (1886–1966), noted artist. Born in Nogaisk, Russia, Raskin studied painting at different art schools in Europe and in 1904 went to the U.S. Raskin worked in many media and was known for his draftsmanlike attention to detail and his realistic approach. He painted mostly scenes of Jewish life and lore, especially Jewish life on the East Side of New York. His trips to Palestine yielded a series of paintings of Jewish life there, among them 20 lithographs on Jerusalem. Raskin also illustrated many Hebrew texts, e.g., Pirkei Avot (1940); the Haggadah (1941); Psalms (1942); the Siddur (1945); the Kabbalah, called Kabbalah in Word and Image (1952), and other works of Jewish context, such as Hebrew Rhapsody (1959).
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EJ; Not in CD-EPI
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Subject
Bible:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
Hebrew, Yiddish, English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
Other:
Illustrated Books
