RARE portfolio of 20 page booklet and 59 leaves of illustrations by Yosl Bergner (b.1920), a renowned Israeli painter who was born in Vienna, grew up in Warsaw, lived and studied in Melbourne and immigrated in 1948 to Israel where he resides since. Text and captions to plates in English and Yiddish. Bergner is widely known for his illustrations to world literature and particularly Jewish literature. Isaac Leib Peretz (1852-1915), best known as I.L.Peretz, was together with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem one of the greatest Yiddish language authors and playwrights. 280x190mm. 20 pages & 59 separate leaves laid in portfolio - unbound folder format. Folder browning and worn. Folder edges and hinges tattered. Two plates which were pasted on folder detached, but present. Sticker/glue residues on folder. Stamp on folder inner side. Booklet spine rubbed. Booklet spine edges wrinkled. Corner/s of some plates slightly wrinkled/bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare collection of classic Jewish stories by a great Yiddish author, exquisitely illustrated by one of the most influential 20th-century Israeli artists, suffered some damage to folder, but is otherwise in good condition.