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Joseph Knebel
1909
The stamp of Joseph Knebel’s publishing house features his initials, J. K., on a leaf-like shield mounted on a floral wreath.
The stamp of Joseph Knebel’s publishing house features his initials, J. K., on a leaf-like shield mounted on a floral wreath.
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Courtesy The National Library of Israel.
Published in:The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
He was a great entertainer but going insane. The pathologic element could be missed only by those who were laughing too hard to look. Humboldt, that grand erratic handsome person with his wide blond…
Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
A woman named Bella stayed behind to speak to me. Her hair was carefully waved, touched with streaks of blond, her eyes round and blue. She was not one of the shapeless old, but kept waist, hips, and…
Born to an assimilated family in Buczacz, Habsburg Galicia (today Buchach, Ukraine), Joseph Knebel lived in Vienna for a time before moving to Moscow in 1880, where he became a book dealer, and eventually a prominent publisher of art books, children’s literature, and publications intended to improve art education for children. By the early twentieth century, Knebel (who came to be known by a Russified version of his name, Osip or Iosif Nicholaevich Knebel) had established himself in Moscow’s artistic and scholarly community, befriending many artists and writers, among them Leo Tolstoy. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet government appropriated Knebel’s publishing house. Knebel is most known for his Podarochnaia seriia (Gift Series, 1906–1918), a collection of lavishly illustrated children’s books.
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
He was a great entertainer but going insane. The pathologic element could be missed only by those who were laughing too hard to look. Humboldt, that grand erratic handsome person with his wide blond…
Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
A woman named Bella stayed behind to speak to me. Her hair was carefully waved, touched with streaks of blond, her eyes round and blue. She was not one of the shapeless old, but kept waist, hips, and…