1960 Bezalel NAHUM GUTMAN Jewish CHILDREN BOOK Hebrew ISRAEL Judaica RUSSIAN

Description: DESCRIPTION : This cute edition of beauty and rareness was published in the late 1950's up to the early-mid 1960's in Eretz Israel .The book "SANDALIM BALIM " ( Worn Sandals ) is a collection of 3 stories, Written in rhyms which were written by Sh. Ben Zion ( The father of Nahum Gutman which is also known as Sh. Ben Tsiyon Gutmann or Simha Alter Gutmann ) which are accompanied by numerous NAHUM GUTMAN illustrations , Quite a few full page illustrations - All share the familliar Gutman's undefeated OPTIMISM , HUMOR , LOVE of LIFE , Of CHILDREN and of ISRAEL. Throughout illustrated . All Gutman books are mostly sought after . Original illustrated HC. Colorful Illustrated Flyleaves. 7 x 9". Around 150 PP . Very good condition. Used. Slight cover wear. ( Please watch the scan for a reliable actual AS IS image ) . Will be shipped in a special rigid protective packaging. PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards.SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 29 . Book will be sent inside a protective packaging . Handling around 5-10 days after payment. Nahum Gutman (1898–November 28, 1980) was a Russian-born Israeli painter, sculptor and author.Gutman was born in Teleneşti , Bessarabia, then part of the Russian Empire. He was the fourth child of Alter and Rivka Gutman. His father was a Hebrew writer and educator who wrote under the pen name S. Ben Zion. In 1903, the family moved to Odessa, and two years later, to Palestine.Gutman helped pioneer a distinctively Israeli style, moving away from the European influences of his teachers. He worked in many different media: oils, watercolours, gouache and pen and ink. His sculptures and brightly colored mosaics can be seen in public places around Tel Aviv. Indoor murals depicting the history of Tel Aviv can be seen in the western wing of the Shalom Tower and the Chief Rabbinate building. A mosaic fountain with scenes from Jewish history stands at the corner of Bialik Street, opposite the old Tel Aviv municipality building.Gutman's artistic style was eclectic, ranging from figurative to abstract. Gutman was also a well-known writer and illustrator of children's books. In 1978, he received the Israel Prize for his contribution to Hebrew children's literature.The Nahum Gutman Museum, showcasing the artist's work, was established in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in Tel Aviv.[2] Awards Gutman received many art and literary prizes:[3] 1946 Lamdan Prize for Children's literature1955 Sicily Award for watercolor painting at the São Paulo Biennale1956 Dizengoff Prize1962 Hans Christian Andersen Literary Prize on behalf of Unesco for his book "Path of Orange Peels"1964 Yatziv Prize1969 Fichman Prize for Literature and Art1974 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the Tel Aviv University1976 Honorary Citizen of Tel Aviv1978 Israel Prize for Children's literature *********** 5.10.1898 – Nahum Gutman was born in the village Teleneshty, Bessarabia, then under Russian control. He was the fourth son to his parents, Alter and Rivka Gutman, with a sister and two brothers who were older than him and one younger brother. His mother was a housewife and his father a Hebrew writer and educator, who published stories under the pen name S. Ben Zion.1903 – When he was five years old, Nahum Gutman moved with his family to the city Odessa, where his father was called to teach in the "Cheder Ha'metukan" – a school in which the teaching language was Hebrew. The poet Chaim Nachman Bialik used to visit the school and play with the children. He especially loved the teacher's son, Nahum. He recognized his painting talent and was like a second father to him.1905 – The family immigrated to Eretz Israel. The father worked as a teacher in the girls' school in Neve Tsedek. At first the family lived in the school house and Nahum and his brothers studied there. Later, the family moved to Bustanai Street in Neve Tsedek. Nahum began studying in the "Ezra" school.1910 – In Tu' Beshvat (15 in the month of Shvat), 1910, Nahum Gutman's mother died. His grandmother from his father's side, Mintze, came to the country to take care of the five children. The Gutman family moved to 3 Herzel Street, near the Herzelia Gymnasium (Gymnasia Herzelia) building, in the new neighborhood that was being built in the sands: "Ahuzat Bayit", later to become the city of Tel Aviv. Nahum, who loved drawing since he was a child, began studying drawing with the painter Ira Jan.1913 – When Nahum Gutman turned 15, he quit his studies in Gymnasia Herzelia high school and came to Jerusalem to study in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Among his teachers were Boris Schatz and Abel Pan.1916 – During World War I, studies in Bezalel stopped and Nahum went, along with his friends, to work in the wine press and orange orchards in Petach Tikva, Rehovot and Rishon Le'zion. Later he recaptured his memories from those days in his book "The Summer Holiday or: The Crates' Mystery" ("Hachofesh Hagadol O: Ta'alumat Ha'argazim".1917 – Near the end of WWI, the Turks, then ruling the country, deported the Jewish inhabitants of Tel Aviv to settlements in the Galilee and the Sharon. The city remained closed and deserted. Nahum too left the city, but later returned to it as a watchman. His memories of the period were written and illustrated in his book "Path of the Orange Peels".1918 – When the war ended, the English took over the land and the British mandate period began. Nahum Gutman volunteered to the "Hebrew Legion" and served as guard over Turkish war prisoners in a prisoners' camp in Egypt. The prisoner soldiers and camp existence and atmosphere were captured in a series of his drawings.1920 – Released from the British Army, Nahum went to Europe to continue his art studies. He studied in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, where he learned printing and engraving techniques and perfected his drawing skills. In Berlin he met the group of Hebrew writers, friends of his fathers', and began illustrating their books. His first illustrations were done for his father, S. Ben-Zion's books, and for children's poems by Bialik and Tchernichovsky. 1926 – Nahum Gutman returned to Eretz Israel (Land of Israel) and became part of a group of artists who focused on painting landscapes. They created "The Eretz-Israeli Style". As a major artist is that group, Gutman participated in all the important exhibitions in the country.1928 – Nahum Gutman married Dora Yaffe, mother of his only son, Menachem (Hemi). 1929 – Nahum Gutman designed the stage settings and costumes for the play "Crown of David" by the Ohel Theater. In 1932 he designed costumes and settings for the play "Shabtai Tzvi".1931 – Gutman accepts the position of a regular illustrator for the children's newspaper "Davar Le'yeladim". The paper began as a children's supplement of the workers' paper "Davar", and later became the children's weekly magazine, where Gutman was a member of the editorial staff and house illustrator, for 35 years. He drew thousands of illustrations for stories, poems and various articles and also wrote stories and articles of his own.1933-34 – Nahum Gutman painted the floats and settings for the famous Tel Aviv Purim parade, "Adloyada". People from all over the country came to see the Purim happenings in Tel Aviv.1934-35 – Nahum Gutman was sent to South Africa, by the Foreign Office, to paint the portrait of General Smuts. From his sojourn in the African continent, he sent illustrated stories to "Davar Le'yeladim", which developed into an adventure story in the African jungle. Out of these stories was born Nahum Gutman's first book, "In the Land of Lobengulu King of Zulu". 1939 – The book "In the Land of Lobengulu King of Zulu" (Be'eretz Lobengulu Melekh Zulu) was printed and published. Nahum Gutman become a children books' writer in addition to being a painter and illustrator.1942 – His book "Beatrice or: A Tale that Began with a donkey and Ended with a Ruthless Lion" (Beatrice O Ma'ase Shetchilato Chamor Ve'sofo Ari Dores) is published. In the book, Nahum Gutman dealt with his feelings of loss and injustice, surrounding the death of his mother.1944 – His book "Adventures of a True Blue Donkey" (Harpatkaot Chamor Shekulo Tchelet) was published. Nahum Gutman was very fond of donkeys, with their simplicity and innocence and in this book the donkey becomes a literary hero, a tool with which the author criticizes society.1946 – Nahum Gutman received the Lamdan Award for Children's Literature.1948 – During the War of Independence Nahum Gutman served as a military painter. He drew fragments from the life of the Palmach members and portraits of the soldiers and their officers. In his book "Two Stones that are One"' he told his memories and adventures as a military painter. Later, the book "We Were Like That" was published, with drawings of the soldiers.1956 – Nahum Gutman won the Dizengoff Award for Art.1959 – Jubilee for the city of Tel Aviv. For its 50th birthday, Gutman wrote the book "A Little City and Few Men within It" (Ir Ketana Va'anashim Ba Me'at), in which he collected stories of his memories of the birth of the city and her first inhabitants. He painted the painting "Early Days" for the jubilee exhibition, that took place at the Exhibition Grounds (Ganei HaTa'arucha). The length of the painting was over 20 meters.1961 - Nahum Gutman created his first mosaic, for the Chief Rabbinate Building in Tel Aviv. In 1966 Gutman created a huge mosaic wall on the Shalom Tower building, telling the story of Tel Aviv. The mosaic was made in Verona, Italy, a city with a long tradition of mosaic work. In 1967 he created a mosaic wall on the new Gymnasia Herzelia building and in 1976 he created the mosaic on the fountain on Bialik Street, and on it pictures telling the stories of Tel Aviv.1962 – Nahum Gutman received the Hans Christian Andersen Honorary award for children's literature for his book "Path of the Orange Peels". 1964 – Received the Yatziv Award for his contribution to Israeli illustration and his work in "Davar Le'yeladim".1969 – Received the Fichman Prize for Literature and Art, for the whole of his literary work.1970 – Nahum Gutman began working with clay. His ceramic sculptures are always based on the hollow pitcher and he continues to work with the eastern images which he loved, biblical heroes and figures from the first days of Tel Aviv.1978 – Nahum Gutman won the Israel Award for his contribution to children's literature.1980 – Nahum Gutman passed away in Tel Aviv on the 28th of November, 1980. He was 82 years old. A short time before his death, the writer and researcher Ehud Ben Ezer managed to write down Gutman's life story as told by him. Ben Ezer revised the story and published it under the name "Sand Dunes and Blue sky" (Bein Cholot Ve-Kchol Shamayim). ********* Nachum Gutman was born in Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1905, where he was able to make a name for himself as a unique and renowned writer, artist, and illustrator. He served in the Jewish Legion during the First World War, after which he decided to study at the Herzlia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv and at Bezalel in Jerusalem (1912). It was noted, however, that not only were his studies there brief, but he was amongst numerous other students who began to rebel against the old school manner of instruction. The result of his rebellious manner was the development of a unique style that combined his personal experience of building a new life in Israel, which contrasted with his adoption of the modernist trends coinciding with then European arts. It has been noted that such artists as Renoir, Picasso, Henri Rousseau, and Raoul Dufy often inspired his works. His sense of style was often portrayed in his exotic images of the Arab community and the Arab people, in which he depicted farm girls washing naked in the orange groves, depictions of shepards and shepherdesses, and a series done displaying Jaffa's brothels, capturing the instinctual and sensuous atmosphere of the Middle East. However, his later works were said to have taken on a lighter and more buoyant feel, then some of his earlier paintings. In 1926, he had the fortunate opportunity to participate in the famous Tower of David Exhibition. In addition, over time, he became known as prolific children's book author, and illustrator. His works were marked by pictorial narratives that portrayed their sentiments through the usage of an array of vibrant and poignantly chosen illustrations. His talent and hard work earned him the 1978 Israeli Prize for Children's Literature. His works earned him the title "the artist of early Tel Aviv" seeing as he had a knack for portraying the bohemian and realistic vision of the city and its people. His illustrative writings often drew inspiration from ancient Asian motifs, such as Assyrian reliefs and Egyptian wall paintings. Till this day some of his mosaic works are displayed in Bialik Square in Tel Aviv, which were installed in 1970, and tell the story of Tel Aviv, and Jaffa history and livelihood. In addition, after his death there was the creation of the Nachum Gutman Museum, which is located in what is considered Tel Aviv's first Jewish neighborhood, Neve Tzedek. ******** The son of an author, Nachum Gutman was born in Bessarabia and moved to Eretz Yisrael as a child. He grew up in Yaffo, opposite the sand dunes later to become Tel Aviv, and these locales dominate his landscapes. He was one of the first children to live in the new city of Tel Aviv, and this influential childhood experience is recounted in his books A Small City with Few People and Between Sands and Blue Skies . Gutman served in the Jewish Legion in World War I, and then went to Europe to continue his education in art that he had begun at Bezalel; he returned to Eretz Yisrael in 1926. Influenced by Henri Rousseau and Matisse, his paintings exhibit a sense of innocence and nostalgia for life in the early days of the Yishuv*. Gutman worked primarily in oils, gouaches, and water colors. His oil paintings are known for their large blocks of pure, unmixed color, and his water colors are clear, evoking a transparency akin to the innocence he wished to convey. Gutman is also famous for his illustration of Bialik poems and for mosaics he designed in Tel Aviv: in the Shalom Tower, the Chief Rabbinate Building, and the old City Plaza. Gutman began his work as a children's illustrator in the 1920's, and he continued to work in children's literature throughout his career. For thirty-two years he illustrated a children's weekly, and frequently included stories of his own. As an author he is simple and direct, displaying a cheerful, optimistic view of life. Gutman explained that he strove to excite in his young readers a curiosity about the world around them and to encourage them to use their imagination, particularly in order to see the hidden wonder in the commonplace. Gutman was one of the first authors to write for children in Hebrew, and for his contribution to children's literature, a field which he helped launch, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1978.******** (Ben-Tsiyon Gutmann; 1870–1932), Hebrew writer and educator. Known by his nom de plume S. Ben-Tsiyon (S. Ben-Zion in English sources), Simḥah Gutmann was born in Teleneshty, Bessarabia. Though he received a traditional heder education, Ben-Tsiyon was also exposed to Hebrew maskilic literature. His first story, “Mayn khaver” (My Friend), appeared in Yiddish (1899); he later translated it into Hebrew and published it under the title “Meshi” (Silk; 1902). His subsequent Hebrew stories appeared in prominent journals. In 1897 Ben-Tsiyon left his detested profession—cattle trading—and switched to teaching, an occupation he regarded as his true calling and in which he was very successful. In 1899 the prestigious Ha-Ḥinukh society invited him to Odessa to teach in the city’s modernized heder, a school that quickly became a model institution. In 1900 Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik was invited to teach under Ben-Tsiyon’s supervision, and a friendship between the two men blossomed. An innovative teacher who pioneered the ‘Ivrit be-‘ivrit method (teaching Hebrew and related subjects by using solely the Hebrew language), Ben-Tsiyon systematically compiled the graded Ben-‘ami textbook series; the first of its many editions was issued in 1904. Ben-Tsiyon was part of the Sofre Odessa, a circle of writers who had a major influence upon the development of Hebrew culture and literature. He was an ardent follower of Mendele Moykher-Sforim, even though they differed in their views about Zionism. With the goal of revitalizing Hebrew education, Ben-Tsiyon joined with Bialik, Elḥanan Leib Lewinsky, and Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski to establish the Moriah Press. Throughout this period, Ben-Tsiyon remained one of the most highly regarded writers of his generation, exhibiting his finest skill in the stories “‘Al ketseh gevul ha-yaldut” (On the Edge of Childhood; 1899), “Nefesh retsutsah” (Fragmented Soul; 1902), “Zekenim” (Elders; 1903), and “Me-‘Ever le-ḥayim” (Beyond Life; 1904). In 1905, with his wife and five children (one of whom became the painter and writer Naḥum Gutman), Ben-Tsiyon left Odessa for Palestine, and was one of the founders of Tel Aviv in 1909, where he remained until his death in 1932. As a disciple follower of Ahad Ha-Am, Ben-Tsiyon planned to create a literary center in pre-state Israel, modeled on the Odessa circle. The scholarly journal Ha-‘Omer and his continuing textbook series were part of this agenda. In 1910 he helped devise the youth periodical Moledet, which was published under the auspices of the Palestine Teachers Union. The journal was initially issued in 1911; however, by the end of its first year Ben-Tsiyon was crudely removed from its editorial body by the teachers’ central board. His failures as an editor embittered him, and he subsequently dissociated himself from cultural, public, and literary activities. His hope that in Palestine he would sustain the leadership position he had held in Odessa was dashed. Ruptures widened between Ben-Tsiyon and the workers’ parties that had set the tone for literary standards in Palestine, as well as personally between him and their leaders (including Berl Katsenelson). These rejections led him to associate with “civilian circles” whose contribution to cultural activity in those years was marginal. Still, he continued to compile his textbook series Ben-‘ami. In 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I, he published Kol ketavav (All His Writings) in two volumes, and when the British occupied Palestine, he edited the literary supplement Shai shel sifrut (The Gift of Literature), which was attached to the daily Ḥadashot meha-arets (1918–1919), and Ha-Ezraḥ, an anthology “dedicated to literature, science, and contemporary questions” (1919–1920). He also served on the editorial board of Busten’ai, an organ of the Farmers Union. Despite his continued involvement in literary and public activities, Ben-Tsiyon is recorded in historical accounts as someone whose renown was forgotten during his lifetime. Nonetheless, his collected writings appeared in 1949. S. Ben-Tsiyon’s life and works thus fall into two periods: his early years in the Diaspora and his later life in Palestine. Playing center stage to literary audiences and educators in his early adulthood, he was a chief storyteller of the shtetl, describing typical experiences, settings, and varieties of characters. His style balances mockery and criticism with softness and compassion, while his plot lines tell the fate of individuals worn down by the difficulties of survival. His famous novella Nefesh retsutsah is an indictment of traditional heder education. Another work on shtetl life, “Le-Ḥayim shel parnasah” (For a Prosperous Life; 1913), shows how the tensions associated with making a living lead to humiliation and moral degradation. Ben-Tsiyon’s prose exemplifies realism and demonstrates the flexible strata of the Hebrew language. Unfortunately, his rich linguistic infusion seemed affected to some of his audience, creating a barrier for the generation of readers that followed his own. Though S. Ben-Tsiyon paved the way for those who came after him, he himself paid a heavy price for helping to turn pre-state Israel into the center for Hebrew culture and literature. 1621

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