Sendak’s illustrations for Zlateh the Goat, a compilation of Yiddish tales by Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), mark the beginning of the artist’s involvement with Jewish themes. Working on the project brought the artist closer to his parents, and the shtetl world they had told him so much about growing up. “This was lovely for me,” Sendak has said of the experience, “because it was a project my parents could be involved in, and they were enormously proud that I was doing it.” Maurice Sendak (American, b. 1928) Final jacket illustration for Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966) Pen and ink on paper From the Maurice Sendak Collection at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia