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The
designs featured within this journal are from an
exceptionally beautiful Hebrew alphabet book drawn from
the Hebraic section of the Library of Congress. The work
of two Jerusalemites associated with the Bezalel School of
Art--Levin Kipnis, who contributed the verses, and Zeb
Raban, the artwork--Alef-Bet was printed in Berlin in
1923. Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by an
object whose name in Hebrew begins with that letter; for
example, a stork, hasida, stands for Het, and a peacock,
tavas, for tet. The embossed design on the front of this
journal is adapted from one of the many woodcut
illustrations in Minhagim, a book about Jewish customs
published in Amsterdam in 1707 by Solomon ben Joseph
Proops.
Published with the Library of Congress. |