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RIMON A Magazine of Art and Letters, illustr. by Henryk Berlewi, 1922, litho cover, in Hebrew. - RIMON A Magazine of Art and Letters, illustr. by Henryk Berlewi, 1922, litho cover, in Hebrew. Mark Vischnitzer ; Baruch Krupnik (eds.) Rachel Vischnitzer (art editor) Berlin, Rimon-Verlag, 1922, First edition, VI, 2, 48 pp., illustrated by Henryk Berlewi and other Jewish artists Lithographed soft front cover, 31,5 x 24.5 cm. Condition: cover worn rubbed, chipped; rear cover is missing; binding is loose; damping stains and tracks of damping to most of pages; some tears to edges. Weight: 290 gr. Henryk Berlewi (Yiddish: הענריק בערלעװי; October 20, 1894 – August 2, 1967) was a Polish-French painter, graphic designer and art theorist, who is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for optical art, but he was also an important figure in Yiddish book design and typography in the early 1920s. He drew portraits of many Jewish writers and artists, among them Uri Zvi Greenberg