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2014-05-05 16:56:08 UTC
She was born in Berlin but left Germany before WWII. (Sources differ on whether that was in 1933 or 1938!)
According to one source, she lived for decades in the town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, and now lives in a nursing home in Medford, New Jersey.
http://jwa.org/onthemap/jamaica-ny-home-of-hebrew-calligrapher-lili-wronker
(this includes a 10:44 video - but there's a big gap in it from 4:39 to 9:44!)
Excerpt:
"In 1940 she arrived in New York where, in high school, she was introduced to calligraphy. Afterwards, she moved to Israel, and would have stayed, but for family pressure to return home. There she met Erich Wronker, a printer at the United Nations. During the following decades she illustrated dozens of children’s books, designed book jackets, maps, labels, calendars, brochures, magazine headings, greeting cards, gravestones. She also taught calligraphy and travelled extensively in the US, Europe, and Israel. Friends were treated to holiday cards and other greetings printed on the letterpress that resided in their bedroom. Now retired to an assisted living community in New Jersey, Wronker continues to draw her letterforms in both Hebrew and English, and is teaching a new generation of calligraphers at her local synagogue."
(same video with Youtube comments)
http://library.rit.edu/cary/collections/lili-cassel-wronker-stamp-collection
(brief bit about her stamp collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology)
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=121535
Excerpt:
"...For four years she studied art at Washington Irving High School. Her early experiences in the arts included working as an assistant to Time magazine's Promotion Art Director, Arnold Bauk and designing book jackets for the World Publishing Company. Lili Cassel's first children's book illustrations were included in the best book of the year show at the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In addition to freelancing for various publishers, she also taught calligraphy at several institutions, including the New School of Social Research, the YMCA, the United Nations International School and St. John's University in Queens, New York. In 1949 Lili Cassel was invited to spend a year a Jerusalem, where she met many Israeli artists and had an exhibition of her book illustrations at the Bezalel School. Three years later she married Erich Wronker. The Wronkers had a private press as a hobby, and were also founding members of the American Printing History Association as well as belonging to the Typophiles, a group of book and letter professionals. Lili Wronker was additionally a founding member of the Society of Scribes, New York. Her own work, as well as that of other calligraphers included in her collection, will be found in the San Francisco Public Library. In addition, she also created a video on the history of the Hebrew alphabet, which may be found in the collections of several libraries, including that of the Center for Jewish History..."
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/gedenken-an-die-pogromnacht-lili-wronker-hegt-weder-hass-noch-groll-1489983.html
(from 2007, in German, about Wronker, her husband's family, and the Nazis)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/gedenken-an-die-pogromnacht-lili-wronker-hegt-weder-hass-noch-groll-1489983.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlili%2B%2522wronker%2Bhegt%2522%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dfflb%26biw%3D946%26bih%3D602
(rough translation of above)
http://www.printingmedals.org/index.php/Lili_Cassel_Wronker
(self-portrait in B&W)
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=946&bih=602&q=lili+wronker&oq=lili+wronker&gs_l=img.3...2010.3684.0.3908.12.7.0.3.0.0.351.2177.0j1j0j6.7.0....0...1ac.1.42.img..11.1.309.atgFBTdUnD0
(photos and calligraphy)
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(cover of "The Rainbow Mother Goose" by May Lamberton Becker)
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(cover of "Happy New Year Round the World")
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(cover of "Santa Fe")
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(cover of "Boy Wanted")
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(cover of "The Boy and the Donkey," by Diana Pullein-Thompson)
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-88.xml
(includes partial booklist - all were written by other people)
All About Us, 1972
Book of Knowledge, n.d.
Boy and the Donkey, The, 1958, by Diana Pullein-Thompson
("Ten-year-old Duggie is small for his age, and his overcrowded home in the London slums offers him little opportunity for intellectual or physical development. Yet with the tenacity of ""the unkillable infants of the very poor"" he clings to a dream that some day he will leave this world and spend his life on a green and spacious farm. His friendship with a miserly rag picker, Old Jock, and Jock's donkey, him into a series of complications with various adults and also into some rather violent skirmishes with a hoodlum gang. And it is his strength, born out of the necessity to look out for himself, which turns his childish fantasy of running Jock's ancient donkey, in a derby into a reality. The changes wrought out by this strange association with Jock lead him, finally, toward a deeper maturity and make plausible the hopes he has cherished. There is much action and atmosphere crowded into this story which has all the appeal of those children's favorites which spin around the predicament of a vivid and sensitive child's struggle to cope with poverty through the richness of his spirit and mind.")
Boy Wanted, 1964, by Ruth Fenisong
("A young orphan seizes a chance to leave the slums of Nassau and live on a neighboring island where he can go to school.")
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, a Provençal carol by Nicolas Saboly 1963 (Wronker as calligrapher)
Budongo: An African Forest and Its Chimpanzees, 1965
Chanukah Fun and Story Book, 1952
Children of the Old House, The, 1963
("When Ruth, Michael, Peter, Inga, and Honey move to a new big house by the river they discover both the happy and sad experiences moving can entail as they turn their new house into a real home.")
Clarence Darrow, 1965
Happy New Year Round the World, 1966
House Next Door, The: Utah, 1896, 1954 by Virginia Sorensen
("A young Gentile girl spends a summer in Utah Territory in 1890 and writes in her journal about developing a friendship with a Mormon girl and participating in events leading to Utah's statehood in 1896.")
Jewish Heroes: Book One, 1953
Jewish Heroes: Book Two, 1956
Jolly Jingles for the Jewish Child, 1947
Joseph and Me in the Days of the Holocaust, 1979, by Judy Hoffman
("The author describes her experiences as a Jewish child living in hiding with a Dutch family in Amsterdam during World War II. Additional text and illustrations include further details of the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the fate of those that survived")
Lament for the Small Book, A, 1961
Madame Curie, 1957
Pepys' Boy, n.d.
Picture Dictionary of Jewish Life, A, 1956
Rainbow Mother Goose, The, 1947 by May Lamberton Becker
("The book is in three parts, Part One Mother Goose's Favorite Poems and Lullabies; Part Two Mother Goose's Favorite Alphabet Poems and Rhymes about Counting, the Days, the Months, and the Weather; Part Three Mother Goose's Favorite Puzzles, Games, Tongue-twisters and Wise Sayings")
Riddles of Many Lands, 1956
Santa Fe, 1965
Secret of the Marmalade Cat, The, 1960 by Milton Lomask
("A seaside village in New England is the scene of adventure for New Haven bred Gail Tilden. When her mother inherits a hotel, Gail finds herself perplexed by the mysterious annoyances which sabotage the peaceful atmosphere of the conservative resort. A marmalade cat aids the precocious detective and her friends in unearthing not only the culprit but a fortune in minerals.")
Tell Me About the Cowbarn, Daddy, 1963 by Jean Merrill
("Young Joey prods his father to tell him about the cowbarn and dairying he knew as a child.")
To Build a Land, 1957 by Sally Watson
("In 1947, Leo and Mia Morelli, young Italian Jews, come to Israel where they meet many other young people, both Jews and Arabs")
Unmarried Sisters, 1958 by Dale Fife
("The further adventures of the Houck family, Alsatian emigrants who came to Toledo, Ohio, in the early 1900s, are told through the eyes of Shatzie, the youngest daughter.")
Weddings in the Family, 1956 by Dale Fife
("The life of the Houck family, Alsatians who emigrated to Toledo, Ohio in the early 1900s, is depicted through the eyes of the three daughters, Helena, Odile, and Shatzie.")
Wonderful Shabbos, A, 1954
World Over Magaine
Yusuf: Boy of Cyprus, 1958 by Grace Rasp-Nuri
("Yusuf, a young boy living on Cyprus, has many adventures when he unwittingly becomes involved in some burglars' plans.")
Some titles not listed:
The Four Questions by Ori Sherman
Helen Keller, by Eileen Bigland, 1967;
Religion and Revolution by Guenter Lewy, 1974;
A Tickle is a Wet Itch by Jerome Salzman, 1972;
A Letter from Christophe Plantin, 1570 (ed. 1959);
Fables and Fantasias by Jerome Salzmann, 1970;
History is Fun: A Syllabus on Planning Creative Assignments in History with Emphasis on Motivation by Evelyn Zusman, 1967;
The Private Press-Man's Tale, ed. Henry Morris, 1990
Songs of Childhood by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1994
The New World Over Story Book, An Illustrated Anthology For Jewish Youth by Ezekiel & Epstein, Morris Schloss, 1968
United Nations Women's Guild Cookbook, 1977
Lenona.
According to one source, she lived for decades in the town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, and now lives in a nursing home in Medford, New Jersey.
http://jwa.org/onthemap/jamaica-ny-home-of-hebrew-calligrapher-lili-wronker
(this includes a 10:44 video - but there's a big gap in it from 4:39 to 9:44!)
Excerpt:
"In 1940 she arrived in New York where, in high school, she was introduced to calligraphy. Afterwards, she moved to Israel, and would have stayed, but for family pressure to return home. There she met Erich Wronker, a printer at the United Nations. During the following decades she illustrated dozens of children’s books, designed book jackets, maps, labels, calendars, brochures, magazine headings, greeting cards, gravestones. She also taught calligraphy and travelled extensively in the US, Europe, and Israel. Friends were treated to holiday cards and other greetings printed on the letterpress that resided in their bedroom. Now retired to an assisted living community in New Jersey, Wronker continues to draw her letterforms in both Hebrew and English, and is teaching a new generation of calligraphers at her local synagogue."
(same video with Youtube comments)
http://library.rit.edu/cary/collections/lili-cassel-wronker-stamp-collection
(brief bit about her stamp collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology)
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=121535
Excerpt:
"...For four years she studied art at Washington Irving High School. Her early experiences in the arts included working as an assistant to Time magazine's Promotion Art Director, Arnold Bauk and designing book jackets for the World Publishing Company. Lili Cassel's first children's book illustrations were included in the best book of the year show at the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In addition to freelancing for various publishers, she also taught calligraphy at several institutions, including the New School of Social Research, the YMCA, the United Nations International School and St. John's University in Queens, New York. In 1949 Lili Cassel was invited to spend a year a Jerusalem, where she met many Israeli artists and had an exhibition of her book illustrations at the Bezalel School. Three years later she married Erich Wronker. The Wronkers had a private press as a hobby, and were also founding members of the American Printing History Association as well as belonging to the Typophiles, a group of book and letter professionals. Lili Wronker was additionally a founding member of the Society of Scribes, New York. Her own work, as well as that of other calligraphers included in her collection, will be found in the San Francisco Public Library. In addition, she also created a video on the history of the Hebrew alphabet, which may be found in the collections of several libraries, including that of the Center for Jewish History..."
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/gedenken-an-die-pogromnacht-lili-wronker-hegt-weder-hass-noch-groll-1489983.html
(from 2007, in German, about Wronker, her husband's family, and the Nazis)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/gedenken-an-die-pogromnacht-lili-wronker-hegt-weder-hass-noch-groll-1489983.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlili%2B%2522wronker%2Bhegt%2522%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dfflb%26biw%3D946%26bih%3D602
(rough translation of above)
http://www.printingmedals.org/index.php/Lili_Cassel_Wronker
(self-portrait in B&W)
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=946&bih=602&q=lili+wronker&oq=lili+wronker&gs_l=img.3...2010.3684.0.3908.12.7.0.3.0.0.351.2177.0j1j0j6.7.0....0...1ac.1.42.img..11.1.309.atgFBTdUnD0
(photos and calligraphy)
Loading Image...
(cover of "The Rainbow Mother Goose" by May Lamberton Becker)
Loading Image...
(cover of "Happy New Year Round the World")
Loading Image...
(cover of "Santa Fe")
Loading Image...
(cover of "Boy Wanted")
Loading Image...
(cover of "The Boy and the Donkey," by Diana Pullein-Thompson)
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-88.xml
(includes partial booklist - all were written by other people)
All About Us, 1972
Book of Knowledge, n.d.
Boy and the Donkey, The, 1958, by Diana Pullein-Thompson
("Ten-year-old Duggie is small for his age, and his overcrowded home in the London slums offers him little opportunity for intellectual or physical development. Yet with the tenacity of ""the unkillable infants of the very poor"" he clings to a dream that some day he will leave this world and spend his life on a green and spacious farm. His friendship with a miserly rag picker, Old Jock, and Jock's donkey, him into a series of complications with various adults and also into some rather violent skirmishes with a hoodlum gang. And it is his strength, born out of the necessity to look out for himself, which turns his childish fantasy of running Jock's ancient donkey, in a derby into a reality. The changes wrought out by this strange association with Jock lead him, finally, toward a deeper maturity and make plausible the hopes he has cherished. There is much action and atmosphere crowded into this story which has all the appeal of those children's favorites which spin around the predicament of a vivid and sensitive child's struggle to cope with poverty through the richness of his spirit and mind.")
Boy Wanted, 1964, by Ruth Fenisong
("A young orphan seizes a chance to leave the slums of Nassau and live on a neighboring island where he can go to school.")
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, a Provençal carol by Nicolas Saboly 1963 (Wronker as calligrapher)
Budongo: An African Forest and Its Chimpanzees, 1965
Chanukah Fun and Story Book, 1952
Children of the Old House, The, 1963
("When Ruth, Michael, Peter, Inga, and Honey move to a new big house by the river they discover both the happy and sad experiences moving can entail as they turn their new house into a real home.")
Clarence Darrow, 1965
Happy New Year Round the World, 1966
House Next Door, The: Utah, 1896, 1954 by Virginia Sorensen
("A young Gentile girl spends a summer in Utah Territory in 1890 and writes in her journal about developing a friendship with a Mormon girl and participating in events leading to Utah's statehood in 1896.")
Jewish Heroes: Book One, 1953
Jewish Heroes: Book Two, 1956
Jolly Jingles for the Jewish Child, 1947
Joseph and Me in the Days of the Holocaust, 1979, by Judy Hoffman
("The author describes her experiences as a Jewish child living in hiding with a Dutch family in Amsterdam during World War II. Additional text and illustrations include further details of the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the fate of those that survived")
Lament for the Small Book, A, 1961
Madame Curie, 1957
Pepys' Boy, n.d.
Picture Dictionary of Jewish Life, A, 1956
Rainbow Mother Goose, The, 1947 by May Lamberton Becker
("The book is in three parts, Part One Mother Goose's Favorite Poems and Lullabies; Part Two Mother Goose's Favorite Alphabet Poems and Rhymes about Counting, the Days, the Months, and the Weather; Part Three Mother Goose's Favorite Puzzles, Games, Tongue-twisters and Wise Sayings")
Riddles of Many Lands, 1956
Santa Fe, 1965
Secret of the Marmalade Cat, The, 1960 by Milton Lomask
("A seaside village in New England is the scene of adventure for New Haven bred Gail Tilden. When her mother inherits a hotel, Gail finds herself perplexed by the mysterious annoyances which sabotage the peaceful atmosphere of the conservative resort. A marmalade cat aids the precocious detective and her friends in unearthing not only the culprit but a fortune in minerals.")
Tell Me About the Cowbarn, Daddy, 1963 by Jean Merrill
("Young Joey prods his father to tell him about the cowbarn and dairying he knew as a child.")
To Build a Land, 1957 by Sally Watson
("In 1947, Leo and Mia Morelli, young Italian Jews, come to Israel where they meet many other young people, both Jews and Arabs")
Unmarried Sisters, 1958 by Dale Fife
("The further adventures of the Houck family, Alsatian emigrants who came to Toledo, Ohio, in the early 1900s, are told through the eyes of Shatzie, the youngest daughter.")
Weddings in the Family, 1956 by Dale Fife
("The life of the Houck family, Alsatians who emigrated to Toledo, Ohio in the early 1900s, is depicted through the eyes of the three daughters, Helena, Odile, and Shatzie.")
Wonderful Shabbos, A, 1954
World Over Magaine
Yusuf: Boy of Cyprus, 1958 by Grace Rasp-Nuri
("Yusuf, a young boy living on Cyprus, has many adventures when he unwittingly becomes involved in some burglars' plans.")
Some titles not listed:
The Four Questions by Ori Sherman
Helen Keller, by Eileen Bigland, 1967;
Religion and Revolution by Guenter Lewy, 1974;
A Tickle is a Wet Itch by Jerome Salzman, 1972;
A Letter from Christophe Plantin, 1570 (ed. 1959);
Fables and Fantasias by Jerome Salzmann, 1970;
History is Fun: A Syllabus on Planning Creative Assignments in History with Emphasis on Motivation by Evelyn Zusman, 1967;
The Private Press-Man's Tale, ed. Henry Morris, 1990
Songs of Childhood by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1994
The New World Over Story Book, An Illustrated Anthology For Jewish Youth by Ezekiel & Epstein, Morris Schloss, 1968
United Nations Women's Guild Cookbook, 1977
Lenona.