Uriel Kahana

(1903 - 1965)

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Benzion Raskin

Arbaa tishim

The four billygoats

Warsaw: Tarbut, 1922

208 x 255 mm. 20 pages

Edition: unknown.

Four goats. The story of four goats with striking resemblance to the story of the three little piglets wherein the goats function as the kosher variants of the piglets. A man advises one goat to build a stone stronghold to live in and his ligfe is saved, while the three others took advise from various animals and built flimsier houses and were eaten by the wolf. Benzion Raskin (1890-1930) was a writer, teacher and one of the leaders of the Po'aley Zion (zionist) movement in Warsaw. In 1922 he emigrated to israel and died there while bathing in the sea near Tel Aviv only 40 years old. De drawings are by Uriel Kahana, born in Kiev in 1903 and died in Tel Aviv of a heart attack in 1965. The cover design of this book has sometimes erroneously been attributed to El Lissitzky.

Reference:

Shalev Khalifa 2003, p. 35