Pathways Through the Bible. COHEN, Mortimer J. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1946. Original green cloth. 25 black and white illustrations and full color frontispiece. 549pp. Scarce with dustjacket.
$ 150

FIRST EDITION. This volume was prepared for the young, rendering selections of the Bible in a simple prose style for a clearer understanding of the spiritual teachings of Jewish tradition. One of the first books illustrated by Szyk following the end of World War II, it is noteworthy for his profound dedication page: "In March 1943 my beloved seventy-year-old mother, Eugenia Szyk, was taken from the ghetto of Lodz to the Nazi furnaces of Maidanek. With her, voluntarily, went her faithful servant, the good Christian, Josefa, a Polish peasant. Together, hand in hand, they were burned alive. In memory of the two noble martyrs I dedicate my pictures of the Bible as an eternal Kaddish for these great souls."