Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $6,875
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Yung Yiddish,Yung Yiddish Publishers, Lodz, 1919.
Complete set, six issues in three booklets (no further issues printed): ershter boygn, Purim 1919 (printed in 350 copies, numbered); tsveyter-driter boygn, Pesach, 1919 (printed in 400 copies, numbered); Ferter-finfter-zekster boygn, Winter of 1919 (printed in 500 copies, numbered).
The illustrated publications of "Yung Yiddish" (1919-1923) are testimony to the synthetic searches of Broderzon and his group. One of the main achievements in this field was the "Yung Yiddish" Almanac, published during 1919. The desire for harmony and mutual influence between text and graphics, for erasing the borders between literature and art, is expressed by the almanac's sub-title: "lider in vort un tseykhenungn" (Poems in word and drawing), and by the format, which interweaves illustrations with text. The three booklets of the almanac are reminiscent of the Russian futurists' books; as in those futuristic publications, the graphics of "Yung Yiddish" does not serve a graphic purpose but, generally, is an independent element of the almanac.
8:16;28; pp, 34 cm. Generally – in good condition. Dry and fragile paper. Tears at borders, detached leaves. Stains. Very rare. Only few complete sets are known to exist.
Complete set, six issues in three booklets (no further issues printed): ershter boygn, Purim 1919 (printed in 350 copies, numbered); tsveyter-driter boygn, Pesach, 1919 (printed in 400 copies, numbered); Ferter-finfter-zekster boygn, Winter of 1919 (printed in 500 copies, numbered).
The illustrated publications of "Yung Yiddish" (1919-1923) are testimony to the synthetic searches of Broderzon and his group. One of the main achievements in this field was the "Yung Yiddish" Almanac, published during 1919. The desire for harmony and mutual influence between text and graphics, for erasing the borders between literature and art, is expressed by the almanac's sub-title: "lider in vort un tseykhenungn" (Poems in word and drawing), and by the format, which interweaves illustrations with text. The three booklets of the almanac are reminiscent of the Russian futurists' books; as in those futuristic publications, the graphics of "Yung Yiddish" does not serve a graphic purpose but, generally, is an independent element of the almanac.
8:16;28; pp, 34 cm. Generally – in good condition. Dry and fragile paper. Tears at borders, detached leaves. Stains. Very rare. Only few complete sets are known to exist.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $1,300
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Shtrom [stream], Choydesh heftn. Moscow, 1922. Yiddish.
Issues 1-2. On the title page of the first issue appears a handwritten dedication by the poet Aharon Kushnirov. Amongst the writers: David Hofstein, Baynush Steiman, Aharon Kushnirov, Dvora Kalyatzkin, Shmuel Rassin, Marc Chagall, I. Davrushin, Peretz Markish, Der Nistar, S. Gordon, and others. "Shtrom" is a literary-artistic periodical founded by the literature division of "Kultur Lige", that moved in the early 1920s from Kiev to Moscow. The periodical was published during the years 1922-1924; altogether 5 booklets have been printed. In the beginning the periodical attempted to unite the modernistic Yiddish writers throughout the world, not only in Russia. At the time the periodical was not an official journal, however, it is the first attempt to publish a literary Soviet journal in Yiddish. The last issues of this periodical were published under tight supervision of the communist censorship. Cover design by Marc Chagall.
First Booklet: [2], 80, [2] pp, 26 cm. Fair condition. Tears at margin of cover, creases at margin of leaves. Stains. Last leaves and back cover are detached. Second Booklet: [2], 80, [2] pp, 26 cm. Good-Fair condition. Tears, stains and damages to the cover. Most of the leaves in good condition (stains).
Issues 1-2. On the title page of the first issue appears a handwritten dedication by the poet Aharon Kushnirov. Amongst the writers: David Hofstein, Baynush Steiman, Aharon Kushnirov, Dvora Kalyatzkin, Shmuel Rassin, Marc Chagall, I. Davrushin, Peretz Markish, Der Nistar, S. Gordon, and others. "Shtrom" is a literary-artistic periodical founded by the literature division of "Kultur Lige", that moved in the early 1920s from Kiev to Moscow. The periodical was published during the years 1922-1924; altogether 5 booklets have been printed. In the beginning the periodical attempted to unite the modernistic Yiddish writers throughout the world, not only in Russia. At the time the periodical was not an official journal, however, it is the first attempt to publish a literary Soviet journal in Yiddish. The last issues of this periodical were published under tight supervision of the communist censorship. Cover design by Marc Chagall.
First Booklet: [2], 80, [2] pp, 26 cm. Fair condition. Tears at margin of cover, creases at margin of leaves. Stains. Last leaves and back cover are detached. Second Booklet: [2], 80, [2] pp, 26 cm. Good-Fair condition. Tears, stains and damages to the cover. Most of the leaves in good condition (stains).
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
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Der galaganer hon [the boastful rooster], by Peretz Markish. Berlin: Klal, 1922. Yiddish.
Children's book by Peretz Markish. Illustrated by joseph Tchaikov. On the front cover appears an illustration in color in a unique typographic design. Within the booklet there are 25 additional illustrations in b/w. 30 cm. General condition-Good. Front cover includes the complete illustration and title but margin are missing (a square 18.5X23 cm). Back cover (originally with no illustrations) is missing. Ink-stamp on title-page. Right margin of the first and last leaves are professionally restored. In a new cardboard binding.
Joseph Tchaikov (1888-1986) - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, teacher and theoretician. Studied in Paris between 1910-1913, started exhibiting from 1912. Was active member in groups and associations of Jewish artists. He was among the founders of "Kultur-Lige" in Kiev. Taught sculpture in Vkhutemas and in Vkhutein between 1923-1930. For additional information, see: Tradition and Revolution - The jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde 1912-1928, by Ruth Apter Gabriel (editor).
Children's book by Peretz Markish. Illustrated by joseph Tchaikov. On the front cover appears an illustration in color in a unique typographic design. Within the booklet there are 25 additional illustrations in b/w. 30 cm. General condition-Good. Front cover includes the complete illustration and title but margin are missing (a square 18.5X23 cm). Back cover (originally with no illustrations) is missing. Ink-stamp on title-page. Right margin of the first and last leaves are professionally restored. In a new cardboard binding.
Joseph Tchaikov (1888-1986) - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, teacher and theoretician. Studied in Paris between 1910-1913, started exhibiting from 1912. Was active member in groups and associations of Jewish artists. He was among the founders of "Kultur-Lige" in Kiev. Taught sculpture in Vkhutemas and in Vkhutein between 1923-1930. For additional information, see: Tradition and Revolution - The jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde 1912-1928, by Ruth Apter Gabriel (editor).
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
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1. Di Kupe [the pile] (poeme), Peretz Markish. Kiev: Kultur Lige, 1922. 2nd edition. Design of cover by Joseph Tchaikov: next to the title and author's name are two figures carrying a body, which, according to the poem, portray the victims of a pogrom. 36 pp,19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and small missing parts. The booklet is bound in hard-cloth-cover.
2. In Feirdiken Doyr, [In the Burning Period, anthology of new and revolutionary poetry], edited by A. Korman. Published by Meluche-Verlag and Kultur-Lige, Kiev, 1921.Yiddish. Anthology contains works by David Hofstein, Peretz Markish, Moshe Kolbak, Moshe Broderzon, Kadia Molodovsky and others. The illustrations and typography on the cover, in a constructivist style, are by Joseph Tchaikov. 64 pp, 17 cm. Poor condition. Body of booklet detached and pages are not bound. First and last pages are attached with adhesive tape. Cover torn, detached and stained. Missing parts.
3. Baginen [Beginning], Chodesh djurnal, erster buch [monthly journal, first issue]. Kiev: al-Ukrainishn literarishn komitet, yidishe sektsye, June 1919. Yiddish.
The issue contains works by David Hofstein, Leib Kvitko, Shalom Asch, Y.Y. Singer and others. Design of fron and back covers, title page and 11 illustrations in the magazine all by Joseph Tchaikov. 126 pp, 25 cm. Fair condition. Front cover, title page and back cover are detached and torn at the borders. Adhesive tape to front cover. Body of booklet in good condition with somewhat dark edges.
2. In Feirdiken Doyr, [In the Burning Period, anthology of new and revolutionary poetry], edited by A. Korman. Published by Meluche-Verlag and Kultur-Lige, Kiev, 1921.Yiddish. Anthology contains works by David Hofstein, Peretz Markish, Moshe Kolbak, Moshe Broderzon, Kadia Molodovsky and others. The illustrations and typography on the cover, in a constructivist style, are by Joseph Tchaikov. 64 pp, 17 cm. Poor condition. Body of booklet detached and pages are not bound. First and last pages are attached with adhesive tape. Cover torn, detached and stained. Missing parts.
3. Baginen [Beginning], Chodesh djurnal, erster buch [monthly journal, first issue]. Kiev: al-Ukrainishn literarishn komitet, yidishe sektsye, June 1919. Yiddish.
The issue contains works by David Hofstein, Leib Kvitko, Shalom Asch, Y.Y. Singer and others. Design of fron and back covers, title page and 11 illustrations in the magazine all by Joseph Tchaikov. 126 pp, 25 cm. Fair condition. Front cover, title page and back cover are detached and torn at the borders. Adhesive tape to front cover. Body of booklet in good condition with somewhat dark edges.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $300
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Vokal Svite: Tsen Kinder Lieder Fun Y. L. Peretz, Far Shtime Mit Piano [Vocal Suite: Ten Children's Songs by Y. L. Peretz, for Voice and Piano], edited by M. Milner. Kiev: Kultur Lige/Melukhe Farlag, 1921. Yiddish.
Music notes pamphlet of children's songs by Y.L. Peretz. The colored cover design and illustration are by the artist Joseph Tchaikov (1888-1986), one of the leading Jewish representatives of the Russian Avant-Garde art movement.
30, [2] pp, 34 cm. Laid-in are two leaves of handwritten musical notes in an unknown hand. Fair condition. Numerous stains, tears at borders of leaves, professionally restored tears to front cover. Back cover is missing (replaced with a new cover).
Music notes pamphlet of children's songs by Y.L. Peretz. The colored cover design and illustration are by the artist Joseph Tchaikov (1888-1986), one of the leading Jewish representatives of the Russian Avant-Garde art movement.
30, [2] pp, 34 cm. Laid-in are two leaves of handwritten musical notes in an unknown hand. Fair condition. Numerous stains, tears at borders of leaves, professionally restored tears to front cover. Back cover is missing (replaced with a new cover).
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
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Der bobes oytser, [Miriam Ulinover. Levine-Epstein un Shutafim Publishing, Warsaw, 1922]. Foreword by David Frishman. Yiddish.
Poems by Miriam Unilover (1894-1944), Yiddish poet, native of Poland, active between the two World Wars. Murdered in Auschwitz.
Presented here are two folded printer's sheets, uncut, out of a special edition of the book – an edition of fifty copies, printed on special paper (this edition was printed at the same time as the regular edition). The sheets include a foreword by David Frishman and numerous poems by Ulinover, but are not a complete composition. Two folded sheets, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases at borders.
Poems by Miriam Unilover (1894-1944), Yiddish poet, native of Poland, active between the two World Wars. Murdered in Auschwitz.
Presented here are two folded printer's sheets, uncut, out of a special edition of the book – an edition of fifty copies, printed on special paper (this edition was printed at the same time as the regular edition). The sheets include a foreword by David Frishman and numerous poems by Ulinover, but are not a complete composition. Two folded sheets, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases at borders.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
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Naye haymn, dertsaylungen bilder tun kitsn fun brazilianer yidishn lebn, Adolf (Yudl) Kishinovsky. "Yung Brazil" publishing, Nilopolis, close to Rio De Janiero, 1932. Yiddish.
"New homes – stories, pictures and impressions of Jewish life in Brazil". On the cover: "Heft numer 1". An attempt to create a modernist literary creation in the spirit of Eastern Europe Jewish Avant-Garde (the impressive cover design and the name of the publishing house, "Young Brazil" were influenced by that spirit). The work is dedicated to the life of Jews who immigrated from East Europe to South America. 32 pp, 19.5 cm. Generally - in good condition. Stains. Tears to cover. The booklet ends with a leaf that seems like a title-page ("der gringo"), but it looks as if it is complete.
Bibliographically unknown.
"New homes – stories, pictures and impressions of Jewish life in Brazil". On the cover: "Heft numer 1". An attempt to create a modernist literary creation in the spirit of Eastern Europe Jewish Avant-Garde (the impressive cover design and the name of the publishing house, "Young Brazil" were influenced by that spirit). The work is dedicated to the life of Jews who immigrated from East Europe to South America. 32 pp, 19.5 cm. Generally - in good condition. Stains. Tears to cover. The booklet ends with a leaf that seems like a title-page ("der gringo"), but it looks as if it is complete.
Bibliographically unknown.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
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Literarishe Monatsshriften, fraye bine far literature un kunst, edited by S. [Shmaryahu] Gorelik, A. Witer and S.[Shmuel] Niger. Vilnius, February to May 1908. Yiddish.
Booklets 1-4. No more booklets have been printed. A literary periodical, amongst the participants: David Einhorn, Y.L.Peretz, Peretz Hirshbein, Der Nistar, Shalom Asch, Moshe Silburg, Nomberg and others.Volume 20.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing-marks. Ink stamps. Somewhat chopped margin. Each booklet in its original cover.
Booklets 1-4. No more booklets have been printed. A literary periodical, amongst the participants: David Einhorn, Y.L.Peretz, Peretz Hirshbein, Der Nistar, Shalom Asch, Moshe Silburg, Nomberg and others.Volume 20.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing-marks. Ink stamps. Somewhat chopped margin. Each booklet in its original cover.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
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*far tag, a dramatishe poema, fir akten, A. Vayter. Vilnius:B. A. Klatzkin, 1922. * Pep, I.L. Vetshiks, amerikaner liderbukh, Leon Fuechtwanger. Riga: "Bicher far alemen", 1930. Satirical poems about the USA, by Leon Feuchtwanger. * geld un blut, Ya'akov Gotlieb. Kaunas: "Mira Layn", 1931. Poetry book with a dedication handwritten by the author. * tiames kinderyorn, Ne. Green. Yiddish: M. Razumni. Riga: "bicher far alemen", 1931. A novel for youngsters. * shliachn' zamlbuch far literature. Kaunas, 1932. Literary anthology, printed in one thousand copies. Three of the participating writers are signed on the first page: Sara Eisen, Nathan Greenblatt and Israel Kaplan. Sizes and conditions vary.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $200
Sold for: $275
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1. Jüdische Sprichwörter und Redensarten Gesammelt und Erklärt von Ignaz Bernstein ("Erotica und Rustica") . Frankfurt am Main, 1908. Yiddish and transcript into Latin letters. 1st edition.
227 erotic proverbs and sayings collected by Ignaz Bernstein. The booklet was printed as an independent appendix to Bernstein's book "yidishe shprichvorter un redensartn" [Jewish sayings and proverbs].
2. Proverbia Judaeorum erotica et turpia. Jüdische Sprichwörter erotischen und rustikalen Inhalts. Als Manuskript gedruckt. Vienna-Berlin: R. Löwit, 1918. German. Jewish proverbs and sayings of erotic and vulgar nature. It is mentioned in the introduction that the book was written following the book of proverbs by Bernstein. Printed on paper of good quality in 300 copies. Presented here is copy no. 216.
Size and condition varies.
227 erotic proverbs and sayings collected by Ignaz Bernstein. The booklet was printed as an independent appendix to Bernstein's book "yidishe shprichvorter un redensartn" [Jewish sayings and proverbs].
2. Proverbia Judaeorum erotica et turpia. Jüdische Sprichwörter erotischen und rustikalen Inhalts. Als Manuskript gedruckt. Vienna-Berlin: R. Löwit, 1918. German. Jewish proverbs and sayings of erotic and vulgar nature. It is mentioned in the introduction that the book was written following the book of proverbs by Bernstein. Printed on paper of good quality in 300 copies. Presented here is copy no. 216.
Size and condition varies.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
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1." Masuot", Anthologies for current issues, study and literature, book 1,edited by Dr. M. Glickson. Odessa: "Omanut", 1919. Includes contributions by some of the best Hebrew poets and authors of the period. Illustrations by Ya'akov Apter. Printed during the Revolution. No further issues were published.
2."Eretz" Anthology of literature and literary criticism, [edited by Shlomo Tzemach and Eliezer Shteinman]. Odessa: "Eretz", 1919. Cover illustrated by Yitzchak Frankel. Following the title-page is an introduction by the editor: "When compiling the "Eretz" anthology we thought about gathering in it most of the works by young authors and emphasize the trends of our young literature. Unfortunately, due to the political events we could not materialize our plans…the Hebrew reader, when judging this literary anthology, should take into account the editors' difficult working conditions."
Sizes and conditions vary.
2."Eretz" Anthology of literature and literary criticism, [edited by Shlomo Tzemach and Eliezer Shteinman]. Odessa: "Eretz", 1919. Cover illustrated by Yitzchak Frankel. Following the title-page is an introduction by the editor: "When compiling the "Eretz" anthology we thought about gathering in it most of the works by young authors and emphasize the trends of our young literature. Unfortunately, due to the political events we could not materialize our plans…the Hebrew reader, when judging this literary anthology, should take into account the editors' difficult working conditions."
Sizes and conditions vary.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
October 16, 2012
Opening: $120
Sold for: $150
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"Shalechet", literary anthology. Edited by G. Shoffman. Lvov: "Revivim", [1911]. Literary anthology edited by Gershom Shoffman. Includes works by Bialik, Y.H. Brenner, Ya'akov Fichman, Asher Barash, Zalman Shneor, Dvora Baron and others. 160 pp, 22 cm. Good condition. Stains, minor tears, damages to binding. Ex-library copy.
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Yiddish Literature, Avant-Garde, Hebrew Literature
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