Burning Lights

A Unique Double Portrait of Russia

Bella Chagall, Norbert Guterman, Marc Chagall

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Yiddish

Random House Inc
12 March 1988

Individual artists, art monographs; Judaism

This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall.

Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was Burning Lights, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.

By: Bella Chagall
Illustrated by: Marc Chagall
Foreword by: Norbert Guterman
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9780805208634
ISBN 10: 0805208631
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 March 1988
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

BELLA ROSENFELD CHAGALL(November 1985 - September 1944) was a Jewish Belarusian writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. Chagall's works include The Burning Lights and First Encounter.

Reviews for Burning Lights: A Unique Double Portrait of Russia

-A happy collaboration between painter Marc Chagall and his wife Bella. . . . Chagall's illustrations capture that special quality of fantasy blended with truth.- --Saturday Review -In simple prose, Mrs. Chagall brings us into close contact with the Russian-Jewish community of the last generation--a life that is now physically in ruins but spiritually alive.- --San Francisco Chronicle -Pure pleasure to read . . . evocative, wistful. There is none who will not love this little book.- --New York Herald Tribune