SHARGORODSKA (Dr. F.). HEFETZ (Mina). GUR-ARIE (Meir). Born Meir Gorodetsky. RABAN (Zeev). Born Wolf Rawicki. Aleph. [Illustrated by Mr. Gur-Arie-Z. Raban. Bezalel-Jerusalem. Dvir" Company. Tel Aviv]. Copyright 1930. In-8 oblong (17.5 x 25 cm). 63 pp., (1) f.: black cloth spine, color lithographed paper covers, a beetle teaching other insects on the first, the same showing a painting with text by H. N. Bialik, on the second. Publisher's notes in English and price in Hebrew [150 mils in Palestine, 90 cents in America]. Illustrated alphabet by the two great artists, Zeev Raban (1890-1970) and Meir Gur-Arie (Byelorussia 1891-1951 Jerusalem), who together founded an industrial design studio in 1923. Covers and thirty-two plates on the fruits of the labor in Palestine "of those who came from the ends of the earth". Attractive color lithographed drawings: cultivation, animal husbandry, vegetable gardening, kindergarten activities, orange harvest, grape harvest, etc. The table of contents indicates that some of the texts are by Levin Kipnis. A progressive primer by two women who are pioneers in their studies and innovative approach to child psychology. Puah Feiga Shargorodska, born in 1879 in the Ukraine, studied in Moscow, Switzerland, Vienna, Paris, Berlin and took her doctorate at Zurich University. Mina Hefetz (1900-1989) studied in Odessa, at Moscow University, and taught the staff of Jerusalem's children's homes. Jewish Memorial Council copy. Central Committee for Jewish Education. [Wet stamps on first cover], handwritten file number on both covers, trace of label removed, small corners restored. 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