MITROKHINE (Dmitry). HAUFF (Wilhelm). Oniyat kesamim. [The Magic Boat]. [Paintings by D. Mitrokhine]. Omanut. Frankfurt am Main. Moscow. Odessa. [Circa 1920]. In-4 (27.5 x 22.5 cm). (12) pp. including covers: color lithographed heavy paper covers, blue background, golden yellow frame, title in an octagon and floral ornaments on the first, deer in the center of a rosette and edition notes on the second. One of the rare first three titles of the Gamliel d'Omanut library, translations of Russian works published by Knebel in Moscow and illustrated by the most famous artists, two by Dmitry Isidorovitch Mithrokin (1883-1973), including this title, and one by Georgi Narbout (1886-1920). A painter, illustrator, draughtsman and engraver, Mitrokhine studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1902, then at the Stroganov Institute of Industrial Art before attending the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in Paris, with Steinlen and Grasset. From 1911, he worked with "Le Monde de l'art". Curator of the Department of Engravings at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, professor at the Institute of Photography and then, in Leningrad, at the Vkhuteins, where he taught book illustration, he also took part in major exhibitions. The Omanut [Art] publishing house was founded by a young woman, Shoshana Persitz (1893-1969), in Moscow in 1917; it had to move to Odessa in 1918, then to Frankfurt in 1920. The first three titles were printed at the same time, certainly in Odessa. The death of her four-year-old son prompted her to create a series of high-quality works, to give young Jewish Russians books in Hebrew to preserve their language, and books they could be proud of. The little boy's name was Gamliel, and his mother gave her name to the series, which was to include twelve titles. The two books illustrated by Mitrokhine are the only ones in which the boy's name appears at the foot of a magnificent tree of life. Tale by German writer Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827). Covers, four full-page color lithographs, mid-page compositions, lettering, vignettes, culs-de-lampe. Split at head of spine. Ann Brenner. The Odessa Years. Shoshana Persitz and the Gamliel Library of Omanut Press (1918-1920). Library of Congress. 2017. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannoucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba