MILGROIM: A Yiddish Illustrated Magazine of Art and Letters - issues 1-4 bound together. (1922, 1923)

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Berlin, Rimon Verlag, 1922 - 1923, Magazines bound in hardcover

First Editions, Good

4 issues (of a total run of only 6) bound in 1. Illustrated. Quarter-calf and cloth. Illustrated covers preserved, 12" x 9.5"

Condition: Spine perished, boards detached; light foxing; very good internally; good overall.

Rimon Publishing Company, Berlin, London, 1922 - 1923. Color plates, b/w illustrations, drawings and photos Text is in Yiddish. Literary Editors of the first issue are David Bergelson and Der Nister. Art Editor throughout is Rachel Vishnitzer. 
Text in Yiddish except for the additional content pages, which is also in German for the first issue and in English for all the others issues. The captions of the illustrations of vol 2 - 4 are in Yiddish and English.
Illustrated magazine in Yiddish, founded by Dr. Mark Wischnitzer and his wife, the art historian Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer and published bimonthly. The magazine featuring articles on Jewish art including painting, sculpture, music and theater. It also includes fiction, poetry, and critical & philosophical essays. Among the authors were Lissitzky, Chagall, S. Tchernichovsky, Nathan Altman, Ch. N. Bialik, Rachel Vishnitzer, J. Meyer-Gaefe, Nistor, Max Brod, Arthur Schnitzler, Hermann Struck and others 

From the Rimon Publications advertising page in vol 1: "MILGROIM is published bi-monthly in the format of the present issue. It will embrace the study, both retrospective and contemporary, of art in all it's manifestations (...) Special attention will be devoted to the artistic production of the Jews in the present and the past. Each number will include 25 - 30 colored and blacl-and -white illustrations. The Literary Department includes fiction, poetry and critical and philosophical essays"
Some of the articles in Number 3 are "Wall Paintings in Synagogues of the 17th and 18th Centuries," E. Toeplitz, "The Synagogue of Mohilev, with illustrations," El. Lissitzky, "Jewish Artists in Russia, with reproductions of works by Chagall, Altman, Sterenberg and Lissitzki," Henryk Berlewi, "Habimah. The Hebrew Theatre in Moscow, with illustrations," A. Patkin, "The Magen David, with the reproduction of an amulat from the genizah," M. Gaster, "On the Posthumous Work of Israel Wachser," Ch. N. Bialik, "Seven Days. A Fairy Tale," Israel Wachser, "Last Year. A Fairy Tale," Wachser, "Spengler and Judaism," R. Seligman, "A Sceptical Idealist. On the Late David Frischman," M. Kleinman, "Art and Letters,"