KIPNIS (Levin). RABAN (Zeev). Born Wolf Rawicki. Aleph Beit. Alphabet. Zeichnungen von Z. Raban. Verse von L. Kipnis. Verlag. "Hasefer" S. D. Saltzmann. Bezalel. Jerusalem. Klischees und Druck. Richard Labisch & Co. Graphische Kunstanstaldt G.m.b.H., in Berlin. Copyright by S. D. Saltzmann Verlag, Berlin. 1923. In-8 (25 x 17.5 cm). (32) pp. cream cloth spine with title, first cover lithographed in color and enhanced with gold. Unique edition of a precious Hebrew primer printed in Berlin and an association of two great names in Israeli art and literature. One letter per page, on coated paper, mounted on a tab, illustrated with a shimmering animal, letter in gold relief, gray background and ornate red and gold frame, with gray squares in the corners, by artist Zeev Raban (1890-1970). Born in Poland, he studied at various art academies in Europe: Munich, Paris, Brussels... After moving to Palestine in 1912, he founded the Bezalel Academy, where he taught until 1929. In 1921, he took part in the Tower of David exhibition, the first show of Hebrew artists in Palestine. Text by Levin Kipnis (Ukraine 1894-1990 Israel), who studied in Zhitomir and Warsaw. In the Ukraine, he founded the first Hebrew library. He emigrated in 1913 and continued his training at the Bezalel Academy of Arts. In 1922, he traveled to Berlin to study arts and crafts. A very fine copy with just the upper left corners of the boards very slightly bent. 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