Jewish Songs by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

presents a portfolio of sheet music for two of the

composer’s songs together with 10 illustrations by

Karasik. Title page in English, and 4 pages of sheet

music in Russian, 1 for A Girl’s song and 3 for Winter,

are printed in violet ink; the illustrations are colour

lithographs. These fifteen sheets are kept in a paper

over cardboard clamshell box. This box is lithographed

in green ink with the title in English printed over sheet

music. The portfolio was published in a 13 copy edition

with one supplementary artist proof.