Keshet: Hebrew Children’s Calendar and Nation-Building Reader, Palestine, c. 1940s
Title: קשת: עיתון לילדים (Keshet: Iton La-Yeladim, “Rainbow: A Newspaper for Children”)
Country: Palestine
Date: c. 1940s
Publisher: הוצאת מסדה, תל אביב (Massada Publishing, Tel Aviv)
Language: Hebrew
Format: Hardcover children’s annual with cloth spine
Pages: 143
Illustrations: Black-and-white illustrations throughout, with multiple mounted color plates
Editors: י. אפשטין and י. מלמד (Y. Epstein and Y. Melamed)
Illustrators: נ. גוטמן and א. גרינקורן, likely Nahum Gutman and A. Grinkorn or Greenkorn
Subject: Hebrew children’s literature, Jewish holidays, Hebrew calendar, Zionist education, labor, agriculture, songs, stories, games, and classroom activities
Condition: Good vintage condition, with age wear to boards, spine, page edges, and interior pages. Color plates appear bright in the supplied images. Final completeness and plate count to be confirmed.
An illustrated Hebrew children’s annual published by Massada in Tel Aviv, organized around the Hebrew calendar year. The volume combines poems, songs, short stories, riddles, dialogues, holiday lessons, and educational activities with vivid color plates for the months and festivals, including Tishrei, Kislev, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Tammuz, and Av. Its imagery links Jewish ritual life with nature, agricultural labor, Hebrew language formation, and early Zionist civic education. Ilustrated in part by Nahum Gutman, a foundational figure in Israeli children’s book illustration, the book is a scarce example of Hebrew children’s publishing from the late 1940s to early 1950s, spanning the end of British Mandate Palestine and the early State of Israel.
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