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From newsletter 16:
19. KLEERKOOPER, G.G. Ha-méliets. Leerboek voor het Hebreeuws op de Lagere School. Met teekeningen van L. Pinkhof. (Vol. 2). Amsterdam, A.T. Kleerekoper, 1941. Original wrappers. 58 p. Many humorous illustrations by Leonard Pinkhof. Second (revised) edition. Brown stain on edge.
€ 60
* In this enjoyable textbook for
learning Hebrew from Dutch, containing simple Hebrew exercises with
numerous lively drawings, a lot of tragedy is coming together. The first
edition appeared in 1932 (and its first volume was reprinted in 1937).
It was a miracle that this second edition of vol. 2 could be produced,
in the middle of the Nazi German occupation of the Netherlands, by publisher
Abraham Tzemach Kleerekoper, who was to be murdered in Sobibor only
a year after. The afterword of George Gompert Kleerkooper (not related)
bears the date June 1941, but he died, 69 years old, when the book was
probably at the printer's, on June 21, 1941. Leo Pinkhof, a painter from Den
Helder, had a better prospect, having acquired a place on the so-called
'Palestina List', that was to bring him to Palestine. However, the list
only postponed his execution one year: in July 1943 he and his wife
and six children were murdered. Jo Spier, a popular artist who was admired
by Dutch Nazi leader Anton Mussert, managed to stay in a Doetinchem
villa until 1943, and survived Theresienstadt with his family. With two identical cover illustrations
by Jo Spier with 'Ha-Méliets II' on one side and on the other the same
title in Hebrew type.
