IZIS. Israel, New York: Orion Press, 1958. (Hardcover blue-stamped tan cloth), 11 x 8 inches, 160 pages, screen-gravure illustrations, dustjacket. Originally published three years earlier in Switzerland, this American edition celebrated the tenth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. It features a perceptive preface by Andre Malraux and frontispiece and dust-jacket designs by Marc Chagall. Additional text comes from the Old and New Testaments, modern Hebrew poets, and other sources. Photographer Izis provides pictures of the young country and its people, rendered in rich gravure. Here are such sites as the hills of Nazareth and the Dead Sea, and Jewish men, women, and children, building and enjoying Israel. Born Isralis Bidermanas in Lithuania, Izis (1911-1980), worked most of his life in France as a photojournalist, including at the magazine Paris-Match. Dustjacket is creased, torn, and lightly chipped.

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