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    Artist

  • Budko, Joseph, 1888-1940

    • Title

  • Der Rabbi von Bacherach : story by Heinrich Heine / illustrated by Joseph Budko

  • Physical Description

    8 prints : woodcuts +, title page

  • Date

    1921

  • Notes

    Signed in lower left, numbered 24/25 in lower right. Set of eight woodcuts in a portfolio and a title page with decorative border, accession numbers 99.18a - 99.18i.

  • Summary

    Heinrich Heine’s unfinished short story “The Rabbi of Bacherach” takes place in 1489, telling about Rabbi Abraham and his wife Sara, who flee the town of Bacharach on the Rhine-river after having celebrated Passover: two strangers had brought a dead baby into the Rabbi’s house, so they could raise a blood-libel and accuse the Jews of murder.

    Euphorion Verlag in Berlin reissued the unfinished short story by Heinrich Heine with illustrations by Joseph Budko in 1921. Included are five depictions of the rabbi and three drop cap letters, as well as the book’s title page.

  • Subject

    Illustration of books; Rabbis

  • Medium

    Woodcuts; Prints; Illustrated books

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Biographical/Historical Information

The graphic artist Joseph Budko was born in Plonsk, Poland, in 1880. He settled in Berlin in 1910, moving to Palestine in 1933, where he was appointed Director of the Bezalel School of Art and Crafts. Like his teacher, Hermann Struck, Budko developed a style that combined personal attitude with Jewish mentality, a synthesis of Jewish tradition and modern artistic approach. He also revived the spirit of Jewish book illustration, elevating it to modern design. Joseph Budko died in Jerusalem in 1940.

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Citation

Budko, Joseph: Der Rabbi von Bacherach : story by Heinrich Heine / illustrated by Joseph Budko, Leo Baeck Institute, 99.18a-i.