MAHAROZET: ZEMIROT U-MISHAKIM LE-GAN-HA-YELADIM ULE-VET-HA-SEFER מחרזת: זמירות ומשחקים לגן־הילדים ולבית־ספר
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag "Omonuth" [Omonut, Omanut, Omanuth], 1923. Item #43438
1st German-printed Edition. Original boards, horizontal 8vo, 1 score + xv + 177 pages. 13 x 21 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates as “Rhyme: Songs and Games for Kindergarten and School.”
Book of songs for children written by Levin Kipnis. Includes musical settings (unaccompanied) for the poems by various composers. Hebrew text of each entire poem printed on page corresponding to strophic melody. Originally issued in Jerusalem and republished in this edition in Germany by the publishing house Omonuth.
“[Kipnis] was born in Ushomyr, Volhynia….In 1913, he moved to [Palestine] to study at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He later studied pedagogy for two years in Germany and thereafter became a teacher in Levinsky’s Teacher’s College in Tel Aviv (1923-1952). He debuted in print in 1911 with a poem in the children’s magazine Heperaim (The flowers), and from that point published over one hundred Hebrew books for children and edited children’s newspapers, textbooks, and the like. He is considered the founder of Hebrew-language children’s literature in Israel. (Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur)
“A year after opening and before a single book had even been published, Omanut closed its doors in Moscow and moved to Odessa, a bustling port on the Black Sea located in the Ukraine and as yet untouched by the Revolution. Odessa was already a flourishing center of Jewish culture, home to such luminaries of Modern Hebrew literature as Mendele Mocher Sforim and Chaim Nachman Bialik. But the events of 1917 sent even more Jewish writers and artists pouring in. With such a stable of local talent from which to draw, Odessa was to prove fertile ground indeed for Omanut….
As the Bolsheviks advanced on the Ukraine, [Olamenu’s female founder Shoshana] Persitz relocated again, this time to Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany. There she republished the beautiful picture books illustrated by the young art students in Odessa and also began publishing the polished Hebrew translations of world literature for children by which the press was to become famous. In 1925, Omanut left Europe altogether, establishing itself once and for all in Tel-Aviv.” (LOC)
SUBJECT(S): Children's songs, Hebrew. Singing games. Children's songs, Hebrew. Singing games. OCLC: 18897325.
“Printed in Germany” stamp on title page. Some wear to spine and discoloration of cloth binding. Good+ Condition. (GER-61-5-XX-’elggxcc).
Price: $235.00