Original Israeli Zionist Children’s Alphabet Book Alef-Bet by Avraham Broides and Eliezer Lehmann, c. 1961
Hebrew title: אלף־בית
English title: Alef-Bet
Author: Abraham or Avraham Broides, Hebrew: אברהם ברוידס
Illustrator: Eliezer Lehmann, Hebrew: אליעזר להמן
Language: Hebrew
Format: Stapled children’s booklet with color illustrations
Extent: 24 unnumbered page
A rare Israeli children’s alphabet book that teaches Hebrew letters through watercolor scenes of farming, settlement, holidays, flags, labor, harvest, biblical memory, and national belonging. Beneath its soft nursery format is a clear Zionist educational program: the alphabet becomes a map of land, work, Hebrew revival, Jewish holidays, and Israeli state formation.
The book turns early reading into ideological training. Children, letters, fields, tractors, menorahs, shofars, flags, and village landscapes appear together, presenting Hebrew language acquisition as part of national construction. A delicate and highly collectible example of Israeli children’s publishing, and of how state-building entered the visual grammar of childhood.
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