Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Unter di Fligel fun Toit, Avraham Zak, Mit 12 Bilder fun Yankl Adler. Published by “Di Zeit,” Warsaw, 1923

Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
Avraham Zak (1891-1980) – Jewish writer who lived in Poland between the two World Wars. In this novel, Zak describes his own personal story in a literary fashion by creating the character of a Jewish soldier required to go to the front in the First World War. The book is illustrated with a dozen reproductions of drawings by Yankl Adler in the expressionist style of the “Yung Yiddish” group to which he belonged.
225 pages, 22.5 cm
Fair condition. Pages are slightly torn on margins. Binding is loose and torn. Tear to illustration on cover.
Illustrated Books:Modernism, Avantgarde
Illustrated Books:Modernism, Avantgarde