Item Summary

In verse. The revolution comes to a Jewish settlement and changes the lives of the tailor Motėl, the local rabbi, and the old police inspector.

Descriptive Information

Title
Povestʹ o ryzhem Motėle, gospodine inspektore, Ravvine Issaĭe i Komissare Blokh / Iosif Utkin ; [pereplet i risunki khdozhnika M. Gorshmana].
Call Number
NR Cyrillic 3116
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7w62f9595
Publisher
[Moskva] : OGIZ -- molodai︠a︡ gvardii︠a︡, 1933.
Language
Russian
Date Created
1933
Extent
41, [3] p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 27 cm.
References
Sovetskie Detskie Pisateli, p. 372.
White, Photographically Illustrated Children's Books, 685.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Translated title: The Tale of the Red-Headed Motėl, Mister Inspector, Rabbi Isaiah and Commissar Blokh.
The work is dated '1924-1925 Moskva-Irkutsk' on the last page of text. The title-page gives the publication date for this edition as '1933', but the rear board of the binding is stamped '1934'.
Cotsen copy: Some ill. colored in by child owner.
Binding Note
Pub. tan pictorial cloth stamped in brown with peach pictorial endpapers printed in brown.

Discovery Information

Subject
Stories in rhyme
Jews—Russia—Juvenile poetry
Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917-1921—Juvenile poetry
Jews—Russia—Social life and customs—Juvenile poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
52

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8eaf864e-5dfc-40b8-9be1-7be7aa00fe7a/manifest