A. Druyanov The Joke and Sharpening Book 1922 Sign. Sh. Imber to Lazar Krestin

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A. Druyanov The Joke and Sharpening Book 1922 Sign. Sh. Imber to Lazar Krestin:
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A. Druyanov "The Joke and Sharpening Book" 1st ed., Hebrew, 1922,Autograph of Sh. Imber to Lazar Krestin, 1923Rare limited luxury edition"Amanot" publishing house, Frankfurt, 1922., 262 pp., In this first edition, only the first volume was published. On front endpaper there is a dedication in Hebrew by Shmariahu Imber, the brother of the poet Naftali-Hertz Imber, author of the Israeli anthem Hatikvah, to Lazar Krestin, famous Jewish German artist, 1923.
Hard cloth gold stamped cover, upper gold edge, 25.5 x 18 cm.
Condition: wear and rubbing to cover and spine; tear tihinge of spine; foxing stains to most of pages.Weight: 850 gr.Shmariahu ben Shmuel Ya'akov Imber was born in G Bader February 26, 1868. The brother of Naftali Hertz Imber. Immigrated to Israel in 1933. Died in Jerusalem on May 29, 1950.
Lazar Krestin (10 September 1868, Kaunas – 28 February 1938, Vienna) was an artist famous in the German art world for Judaic genre scenes and his many sober portraits of Eastern European Jews. He was also a noted Zionist.
His father was a Talmud teacher. His first lessons were at the drawing school in Vilnius, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and he was one of the most prominent students of Isidor Kaufmann. He worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before going to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz. He later returned to Vienna and is buried in the Zentralfriedhof.Alter Druyanov (Hebrew: אלתר דרויאנוב) (July 6 1870 – May 10, 1938) was a Russian Jewish writer, editor, translator, folklorist, journalist, historian of early Zionism, and Zionist activist. His pen name derived from his birthplace, Druya, was variously transliterated as Druyanow, Drujanow, etc.) He wrote both in Yiddish and Hebrew languages