Aesopos Hechacham (Hebrew Wise Aesop)

Title

en_US Aesopos Hechacham (Hebrew Wise Aesop)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Hebrew

en_US Original language: gre

en_US Translated by Yevanit N. Raban

Creator

en_US Raban, N. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kovarski, Yehushua

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:21Z

en_US 2006-11

en_US 1941

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 1941

Abstract

en_US Sixty fables. T of C at the beginning. The book's spine is giving way, and several pages are already loose. Apparently it is unclear whether the book was published in 1941 or 1942. I am going with the bibliographer's choice. Meir writes of this book that it is extremely rare. He describes the style of Kovarski aptly as avant garde. This is one of the most engagingly illustrated Jewish fable books I have seen. The fun of the book begins on the cover with a highly expressive fox walking disdainfully away from the tree on which the grape vine is hanging. The print version of this illustration is on 121. The rhythm of the book is that there is a fable text on each right-hand page, and there is a matching monochrome illustration on the facing left-hand page. The Working Girls and the Rooster (45) is downright funny. TB is funny, despite the fact that the bear is unsuccessfully portrayed (79). Both DS (83) and GA (85) are nicely rendered here. I presume that that is the leaper from Rhodes on 119. It is one of the joys of working with this collection that it can save this fragile book for the use of people interested in lively presentation of Aesopic fables.

Identifier

en_US 7424 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82694

Language

en_US heb

Publisher

en_US 'Am 'Oved

en_US Tel Aviv

Subject

en_US PA3855.H4 R32 1941 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole