Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Jewish Library Childrens Books

The Jewish National & University Library Collection







20th c Jewish kids book







Jewish children's book 1920s











Jewish National University illustrated children's book


Jewish kids book





Jewish kids book 1920s


20th century Jewish kids book


illustrated kids book - Israel


kids book from Israel with illustrations


kids book 1900s Israel





The Jewish National and University Library in Israel have about 30 childrens books available that range from 1879 to 1928 from the subject list. [link updated Nov 2011] The majority are from the early 1920s.

Viewing the books requires a DjVu browser plugin. You can then download individual pages if you want, which are only modestly sized but enormous when opened in an image viewing program like Irfanview. (eg. a 350kb DjVu file opens to ~6000 x 3000 pixel image).

The above images are a random assortment from a dozen or so books which I touched up slightly.

3 comments:

  1. Beautiful stuff yet again.

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  2. On-site the JNUL can sometimes be quite an uphill battle, but during the last few years their development of on-line resources is most impressive. Every month they add dozens of titles to their digital book project. I usually only look at the rabbinic material, now I know what other treasures they have.

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  3. These are gorgeous. Every time I visit your blog I leave visually stunned.

    I especially like "Floral King" -- which strikes me as very fractal.

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