EPSTEIN (Mark Isaevitch). Freyd. [Joy]. [Cooperative Publishing]. Kultur-Lige. Kiev. No. 8 July 1923. 2nd year. [In Russian on second cover:]. Monthly magazine for children. In-4 (27.3 x 21.8 cm). 35, (1) pp. gray paper covers, the first with a lithographed cubist composition in black and red, publisher's vignette in red in the center of the second with edition mentions in Russian and Yiddish, single Japanese-style stapled leaves. Precious issue of the Yiddish children's magazine published in Kiev from 1922 to 1925, illustrated with rare paintings combining cubism and neo-primitivism by sculptor and painter Mark Epstein (1899-1949). He was the only artist to illustrate the magazine, and the cover and illustrated title remained unchanged. Beginning with "Proletarians of all countries, unite!", in addition to the cover and title, the magazine includes a vignette and two large original illustrations on pages 11 and 12. "Epstein's graphic work for Freyd offers a radical example of his avant-garde experimental work on the Hebrew letter." Also featured are two shots of giant turnips and cabbages being grown, in praise of agricultural production; child farmers can send photos of their work to the newspaper. Well complete with the photograph on applied paper on page 24: an exhibition devoted to the Ukrainian poet Asher Schwartzman (1889-1919) in the Malakhovka children's colony. Fragile spine split with a few chips, small loss on upper left corner, first cover and pages, bent corner on original page 26. Future anterior. The avant-garde and the Yiddish book (1914-1939). Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme. Paris. 2009, 91. [Note by Hillel Kazovsky]. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba