 His first designs appeared in the 1917 book , <unk> <unk> : <unk> fun di <unk> ( An Everyday Conversation ) , where he incorporated Hebrew letters with a distinctly art nouveau flair . His next book was a visual retelling of the traditional Jewish Passover song Had <unk> ( One Goat ) , in which Lissitzky showcased a typographic device that he would often return to in later designs . In the book , he integrated letters with images through a system that matched the color of the characters in the story with the word referring to them . In the designs for the final page , Lissitzky depicts the mighty " hand of God " slaying the angel of death , who wears the tsar 's crown . This representation links the redemption of the Jews with the victory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution . An alternative view asserts that the artist was wary of Bolshevik internationalization , leading to destruction of traditional Jewish culture . Visual representations of the hand of God would recur in numerous pieces throughout his entire career , most notably with his 1924 photomontage self @-@ portrait The Constructor , which prominently featured the hand . 
