Item Summary

Verse tale of abuse of Jews under the Tsars (pogroms, etc.) Concludes that Motel "even though he is not a commissar, it's enough that he's a man". And now that his homeland is free, "he's not even going to America".

Descriptive Information

Title
Povest' o ryzhem Motėle, gospodine inspektore, Ravvine Issaĭe i Komissare Blokh / Iosif Utkin ; [oblozhka i risunki K. Rotova].
Call Number
Pams / NR 20 / Cyrillic / Box 37 74767
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5999n698p
Publisher
[Moskva : Gazeta Pravda, 1926].
Language
Russian
Date Created
1926
Extent
32 p. : ill. (part photo) ; 24 cm.
References
From the Mundane to the Magical : 685 (p. 145).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Cover title.
Translated title: A tale about the red-haired Motel, Mr. Inspector, Rabbi Isaiah, and Commissar Bloch.
"No need for Talmud nor trousers".
Mixture of drawings and photographs.
Dedicated to the author's mother.
Cotsen copy: Lightly browned, some fraying along fore-edge, staining at head of lower wrap.
Binding Note
White wraps, black & sepia ill.

Discovery Information

Subject
Pogroms—Juvenile fiction
Jews—Persecutions—Juvenile fiction
Photographs
Fiction

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a17d34e8-bc00-49d3-8530-2eb8d1f22f04/manifest