1. Di Broyne Bestye, Balades un Satires [The Brown Beast, Ballads and Aatires], by Lazer Wolf. Illustrations: A. Hafter. Moscow: Der Emes, 1943. Yiddish.
Anthology of poems defaming Hitler and Nazi Germany by the Yiddish poet Lazer Wolf.
Lazer Wolf (Moshe-Lazer Mekler 1910-1943) was a member of the "Yung Vilne" group, a literary, Jewish-Yiddish group active in Vilnius from 1927 until the late 1930s.
38, [2] pp, 14.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, mostly to cover. Creases, Ink-stamp on rear cover.
2. Zalts in di Oygen, [Salt in the Ryes], by B. Gutyanski . Illustrations: A. Hafter. Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. Yiddish.
22 rhymed stories ridiculing Hitler and Nazi Germany, illustrated with numerous harsh and humorous anti-Hitler illustrations. The author, Binyamin Gutyanski (1903-1956) was a Yiddish poet, translator and editor. He composed children's poems, rhymed stories and short sketches for newspapers in Yiddish and Russian. Gutyanski joined the Red Army in 1942, at first as a writer of anti-Nazi propaganda and later as a fighter. He ranslated Don Quixote and other works into Yiddish. Gutyanski was arrested in 1949 and exiled to Kazakhstan, where he died in 1956.
38, [2] pp, 16.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains, creases and tears. Tears to spine (loose cover).