Frontis of Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Frontis of Ari Glas’ 1945
wordless holocaust story, Leilot.

Ari Glas’ 1943 wordless Holocaust novel, Though the Night, was reprinted in Hebrew in 1945 as Leilot (לילות in Hebrew); “Nights” in English.

– Title: לילות
– Author and Illustrator: Ari Glass (ערי גלס לילו)
– Introduction: Dov Sadan (1902 – 1989, an Israeli literary critic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset)
– Date: 1945
– Publisher: Hemeuchad Hakibutz Publishing
– Place of publication: Tel-Aviv
– Printer: Arieli Print??
– Copyright: the artist?
– Size: 13 1/8″ x 9 1/2″ (33.3 cm x 24.2 cm)
– Binding: leaves sewn into a folder
– Language: Hebrew titles, etc
– Paginated: under each image there is what appears to be Hebrew numbering.
– Printed: verso and recto
– Edition: Trade only – there is no indication of limitations or edition size
– Printed from the original linocuts: believed to be the case
– Description: As one expects, this publication is read back to front, right side to left.

Condition – most copies in auction have light to serious foxing and many have a split folder.

How was this printed? It was printed from the linocuts.

  • The title page (showing the artist looking down at his press) states “Linoleum-reliefs” (in Hebrew).
  • More compelling is the following image that shows the blind embossing from the title page on the reverse side.
Relief printing, in this case a linocut, often leaves an embossed impression on the reverse side of the paper. From Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Relief printing, in this case a linocut, often
leaves an embossed impression on the reverse
side of the paper. From Ari Glas’ 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.

Images of Leilot Pages

Front cover of Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Front cover of Ari Glas’ 1945
wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Foreword of Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Foreword of Ari Glas’ 1945
wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Index of images - lists 28 images; two images from the 1943 edition were dropped and ten new ones were added. Index of Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Index of images – lists 28 images; two images
from the 1943 edition were dropped and
ten new ones were added. Index of Ari Glas’
1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Index with first image on the left of Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
First image on the left and Index on the right of Ari
Glas’ 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot.
Final image of Ari Glas' 1945 wordless holocaust story, Leilot - changed from the 1943 edition. Note: page numbers printed just under the image.
Final image of Ari Glas’ 1945 wordless holocaust
story, Leilot – changed from the 1943 edition.
Note: page numbers printed just under the image.

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