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Lot #
18995
Auction End Date
10/9/2007 11:09:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Le-kever avot
Title (Hebrew)
לקבר אבות: מחזור אידיליות
Author
[Only Ed. - Illus.] Levin Kipnis
City
Berlin
Publisher
Hotsa'at
Publication Date
1923
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 115, [2] pp. 212:140 mm., usual light age staining. A good copy loose in the original boards, spine taped.
Paragraph 1
A story by Levin Kipnis. with artistic embelleshments are by L. Ben-Shamir. Included is an introduction is by Zalman Shneour (1887-1959), a Hebrew and Yiddish poet and novelist who, together with Bialik and Tchernichowsky, is considered to be one of the three great figures in Hebrew poetry of his generation.
Detailed
Description
KIPNIS, LEVIN (1894–1990), author of children's Hebrew literature. Born in Ushomir, Volhynia, he went to Erez Israel in 1913, studied at the Bezalel School of Arts, and taught in a kindergarten. After a period of study in Germany in 1923 he joined the staff of the Levinsky Teachers' Seminary in Tel Aviv. One of the first children's authors in Erez Israel, his numerous storybooks included: Pa'am Ahat (1931), Yeladim ba-Mahteret (1946), Haggai (1949), Alef (1955), Bet (1956), Gimmel (1957), Zivonim (1967), and Hidon ha-Torah li-Yladim (1968). Later he also wrote children's stories in Yiddish and published, in 1961, Untern Taytelboym. He also edited the journals for kindergarten teachers, Gannenu (1919–20) and Hed ha-Gan (1938–59). He was also the recipient of the Israel Prize for children's literature. A list of his works translated into English appears in Goell, Bibliography, 105 (index).
Paragraph 2
מחזור אידיליות, [מאת] לוין קיפניס (הקשוטים מאת ל. בן-שמיר).
מנוקד. שם הספר בדיו אדומה. עמ' ז-ח: על-דבר הספר, מאת ז[למן] שניאור.
Reference
Description
EJ, CD-EPI 0163818
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Children’s Literature:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica