pictorial half-title & title, 29 tinted and black & white lithographed plates, contents card inserted at end, original pictorial cloth-backed velveteen boards, some mostly light rubbing and marking, oblong folio, Berlin , [1923]. An unusually well-preserved example of this memorial to the Jewish villages that were destroyed in pogroms during the Russian Revolution. Ryback was born into an Hasidic family in the Ukraine in 1897 and studied at the Art Academy in Kiev. He joined the Yiddish cultural organisation Kultur Lige and particpated in the attempt to create a modern Jewish national art by combining traditional folk art with avant-garde painting. The murder of his father inspired his Pogrom series of 1918, one of the most powerful depictions of anti-Semitism in modern art .