Lot 296
A poem in honor of Rabbi Yonatan Eibeshitz, 1919
"In honor of Rabbi Yonatan z"l, my ancestor who was despised by arrow-shooters. (Belgium? 1919?) One solitary page (4 sides) including a number of poems by an unknown author. The first poem is dedicated to Rabbi Yonatan Eibeshitz and mentions names of his books Yaarot Dvash, Ahavat Yonatan, Hakretsi V'hapleiti and others. At the end of the poem are two additional handwritten lines.
The other poems were written in jail St. Gylles (Brissel?), when the author was imprisoned after World War I. Further on in his poetry the author refers to the war as "a vessel which destroys the holey and the hollow / to cut men, and to scythe the dead flat on the fighting front / for the world has not yet been silenced…"
[4] sides, 18 cm. Good condition. Stains, Residues of glue.
Unknown bibliography.
