Auction 41 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture, Israeli and International Art

Avraham Zak – "Unter di Fligel fun Toit" – Yankl Adler

Opening: $250
Sold for: $575
Including buyer's premium
Unter di Fligel fun Toit, Avraham Zak, Mit 12 Bilder fun Yankl Adler. Warsaw: “Di Zeit”, 1923. Yiddish.
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 belletristic fashion by creating the character of a Jewish soldier who is called to the front in WW I. With a dozen reproductions of drawings by Yankl Adler in the expressionist style of the “Yung Yiddish” group, to which he belonged.
225 pp, 22.5 cm. Fair condition. Leaves' edges are slightly torn. Cover is loose and torn. A tear caused to the cover illustration. Placed in a fine cardboard box.
Autographs, Manuscripts and Archives, Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Bibliography and Research
Autographs, Manuscripts and Archives, Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Bibliography and Research