Lot 234
"The Youth" Monthly – 11 First Year Issues – New York, 1916-1917 – Illustrations
11 Issues of the first year of publication of the monthly "The Youth" (in Hebrew: "Shacharut"). Edited by Zevi Scharfstein. New York: 1916-1917. Hebrew.
Issues nos. 1-10, and issue no. 12, of the first year of publication of the Hebrew monthly "The Youth". Featuring poems and articles on Jewish matters, a news column with reports on current affairs in the Jewish world, Judaism and humor columns, and more. With illustrations by Ephraim Moses Lilien, Sol Aronson, and others, and pictures. Beneath some of the articles are added English translations of difficult Hebrew words and expressions. Among the writers: Zevi Scharfstein, Ephraim Lisitzky, Abraham Soyer, Hillel Bavli, Hirsch Loeb Gordon, and others.
The magazine's editor was Zevi Scharfstein (1884-1972), a Jewish-American educator, native of Dunaivtsi (today part of the Ukraine). Scharfstein devoted his life to the advancement of Jewish culture and to the propagation of the Hebrew language – goals which, among other means, he pursued through the publication of the present magazine.
11 issues, 8 pp. per issue, 31 cm. Condition varies. Overall fair-poor condition. Many stains and wear. Fold lines and creases. Detached leaves. Tears, including long tears, with damage to text. Long horizontal tear to each leaf of the last issue.
