"The Jewish Magna Carta"
The 'Statute of Kalisz' was the first major manuscript project of the artist Arthur Szyk. It celebrates the General Charter of Jewish Liberties, which granted civil and religious rights to Polish Jews when issued in 1264 by Duke Bolesław in Kalisz. 1/4
The 'Statute of Kalisz' was the first major manuscript project of the artist Arthur Szyk. It celebrates the General Charter of Jewish Liberties, which granted civil and religious rights to Polish Jews when issued in 1264 by Duke Bolesław in Kalisz. 1/4
Printed in Paris in 1932, this is a visually stunning production. The integration of text and image is vastly better handled than in Szyk's more widely known Haggadah, and the reproduction of Szyk's artwork is outstanding: crisp, vivid, colorful, impactful. 2/4
The full 500 copies planned of the Statute of Kalisz were never printed, and a large part of the actual printed run was destroyed in the German bombing of Warsaw. Szyk himself stated that only 50 copies existed, and some sources place the number as low as twenty or thirty. 3/4
Nine languages feature in the text of what has been referred to as the 'Jewish Magna Carta': Latin, French, Polish, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Szyk's original artwork for the Statut Kaliski is in the collection of the Jewish Museum in New York. 4/4
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