Arthur Szyk
ARTHUR SZYK ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH SIGNED IN 1935 ...

ARTHUR SZYK ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH SIGNED IN 1935 POLISH BOOK JEWISH ART, LILIEN ETCHING

Maksimiljan Goldstein / Dr. Karol Drezdner - Kultura i sztuka ludu żydowskiego na ziemiach polskich : zbiory Maksymiljana Goldsteina. Z Przedmowa Prof. Dr. Majera Balabana.

Lwow: Nakladem Maksimiljana Goldsteina, 1935.

[2], XI, 208 pp., 3 etching pages.

A rare and important book on the culture and art of Polish Jewry, from the collection of Maximilian Goldstein.

A book plate designed by Arthur Szyk for Goldstein is printed opposite the title page, with Szyk's autograph in pen underneath. The body of the book has two engravings, one of a synagogue by E.M. Lilien, the other of S. Jakubowski.

Numbered copy – 578/1000.

Maximilian Goldstein (1880–1942) was a distinguished collector of Jewish antiquities, as well as a numismatist and specialist in Jewish folk art. He built his Judaica collection over a period of more than thirty years, placing special emphasis on Jewish artifacts of Galicia.

After the establishment of Soviet power in western Ukraine, Goldstein was appointed director of the Jewish Museum in Lviv.

Goldstein was later captured by the Nazis, who occupied Poland, and was taken to Janowska concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1942.

Condition: Few small moth holes to bottom side of the book throughout. Minor foxing to some pages. Flaws to cover with small losses as can be seen in the photos.