Fables (Hebrew)

Title

en_US Fables (Hebrew)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Hebrew

en_US Compiler: Z. Beharav

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Zar, Helen

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:35Z

en_US 2005-09

en_US 1950?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US Here is a curiosity. This book has 128 pages that seem close to mimeograph quality in their mix of cartoon characters and contemporary Hebrew texts. Interspersed with these numbered pages are full-page sepia illustrations. The covers are marbled brown boards, with a canvas spine. I count some one-hundred-and-ten fables. The full-page sepia illustrations include The Elephant and the Pug (4; the text seems to be on 16); BF (32); The Hares and the Frogs (48); The Porcupine and the Snakes (64); The Fox and the Eagle (80); BW (96); The Woodcutter Asking the Forest for an Axe-Handle (104); and The Ass and the Ox (112). Plenty of familiar fables are recognizable from the illustrations, like FC (7); MSA (11); The Swan, the Pike, and the Lobster (15); TH (18-19); and The Blind Men and the Elephant (40-41. In fact, there are only a few fables here that are not readily recognizable. I enjoy particularly the figure that retrieves the woodcutter's axe from the river on 23: is this a god, a whirlwind, or a dervish? Another good set of illustrations shows the malicious cat gossiping with the eagle on 42 and with the pig on 43. Again here, as in another recent book of Jewish fables, the stork or crane is matched not with a wolf but with a lion (52). Here is a rare find, presumably from the beginnings of publishing in post-World War II Israel.

Identifier

en_US 7266 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82539

Publisher

en_US Izrael Publishing House Ltd.

en_US Tel Aviv

Subject

en_US Aesop et al See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole