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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
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Two books with covers illustrated by the artist Iosif Moisevich Chaikov (or Tchaikov, 1888-1979) – Kiev-born Jewish sculptor, graphic artist, painter, educator, and theoretician.
1. In Shṭurem fun Geshikhṭe: Aroysgerisene Bleṭlakh fun Tog-Bukh, 1914-1921 [In the Storm of History, Pages Torn from a Diary, 1914-21], by David Koigen. Translated from German by Zelig Kalmanovitch. Berlin: Yidisher Liṭerarisher Farlag, 1923. Yiddish. Cover design: Iosif Chaikov.
Excerpts from the personal diary of David Koigen, providing eyewitness accounts of historical events in Eastern Europe in the years 1914-21, including the outbreak of World War I, the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, the pogroms targeting Ukrainian Jewry, and the author's personal story of his escape from the Soviet Union following the conquest of Ukraine. The front cover features an illustration by Iosif Chaikov.
247, [1] pp., 18.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains to book block. Stains to cover. Minor tears to cover, professionally restored.
2. Bereshis Aleph [Genesis I] (no additional parts published). Moscow-Leningrad, 1926. Berlin: Gutenberg Press. "Title Page Illustration by Iosif Chaikov. Publisher's Logo by B. Schubin."
Literary anthology including works by Isaac Babel, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Gershon Hanowitz, and others. Front page illustration by Iosif Chaikov.
The contributing authors were unable to find a printing press in the Soviet Union willing to publish a Hebrew book, and the manuscript was therefore sent to Berlin for printing. Of the copies printed, only a handful were legally allowed to be brought into the Soviet Union.
[1], 199, [5] pp., 23 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears and creases to edges of cover. Inked stamps. Original cover, partly detached.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
1. In Shṭurem fun Geshikhṭe: Aroysgerisene Bleṭlakh fun Tog-Bukh, 1914-1921 [In the Storm of History, Pages Torn from a Diary, 1914-21], by David Koigen. Translated from German by Zelig Kalmanovitch. Berlin: Yidisher Liṭerarisher Farlag, 1923. Yiddish. Cover design: Iosif Chaikov.
Excerpts from the personal diary of David Koigen, providing eyewitness accounts of historical events in Eastern Europe in the years 1914-21, including the outbreak of World War I, the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, the pogroms targeting Ukrainian Jewry, and the author's personal story of his escape from the Soviet Union following the conquest of Ukraine. The front cover features an illustration by Iosif Chaikov.
247, [1] pp., 18.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains to book block. Stains to cover. Minor tears to cover, professionally restored.
2. Bereshis Aleph [Genesis I] (no additional parts published). Moscow-Leningrad, 1926. Berlin: Gutenberg Press. "Title Page Illustration by Iosif Chaikov. Publisher's Logo by B. Schubin."
Literary anthology including works by Isaac Babel, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Gershon Hanowitz, and others. Front page illustration by Iosif Chaikov.
The contributing authors were unable to find a printing press in the Soviet Union willing to publish a Hebrew book, and the manuscript was therefore sent to Berlin for printing. Of the copies printed, only a handful were legally allowed to be brought into the Soviet Union.
[1], 199, [5] pp., 23 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears and creases to edges of cover. Inked stamps. Original cover, partly detached.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
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Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Yiddish and Russian Poetry and Literary Anthologies, Avant-garde
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
Opening: $200
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Four Books with Illustrated Covers, published in Warsaw, 1922-23.
1. Mon, Miniaturen [Poppies, Miniatures], by Z. [Zusman] Segalowicz. Warsaw: E. Gitlin, 1922. Yiddish.
The cover design and illustration are the work of the artist Wolf (Zev) Weintraub (1893-1886).
2. Meṭaṭron: Apoḳalipṭishe Poeme [Apocalyptic Poetry], by Aaron Zeitlin. Warsaw: Alt-Yung, 1922. Yiddish.
An early work of Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1973), a Hebrew and Yiddish author and poet. The cover illustrator is unidentified. Ex-library copy.
3. Masse Mensch [Man of the Masses], by Ernst Toller. Translated from the German by Sarah Brenner. Warsaw: Die Velt, 1922. Yiddish.
Translation into Yiddish of the Socialist-inspired play by Ernst Toller (1893-1939) – a Jewish Socialist playwright – dealing with the Socialist Revolution and dedicated to "the Proletariat." Cover design by Menahem Birnbaum.
4. Renanim [Poems], by Meir Czudner. Warsaw: Kolot, 1923. Hebrew.
First published book of poems by the author and poet Meir Czudner (1888-1943), who perished in the Holocaust.
Cover design by the artist Haim Hanft. Numerous stains to cover. Inked stamps.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
1. Mon, Miniaturen [Poppies, Miniatures], by Z. [Zusman] Segalowicz. Warsaw: E. Gitlin, 1922. Yiddish.
The cover design and illustration are the work of the artist Wolf (Zev) Weintraub (1893-1886).
2. Meṭaṭron: Apoḳalipṭishe Poeme [Apocalyptic Poetry], by Aaron Zeitlin. Warsaw: Alt-Yung, 1922. Yiddish.
An early work of Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1973), a Hebrew and Yiddish author and poet. The cover illustrator is unidentified. Ex-library copy.
3. Masse Mensch [Man of the Masses], by Ernst Toller. Translated from the German by Sarah Brenner. Warsaw: Die Velt, 1922. Yiddish.
Translation into Yiddish of the Socialist-inspired play by Ernst Toller (1893-1939) – a Jewish Socialist playwright – dealing with the Socialist Revolution and dedicated to "the Proletariat." Cover design by Menahem Birnbaum.
4. Renanim [Poems], by Meir Czudner. Warsaw: Kolot, 1923. Hebrew.
First published book of poems by the author and poet Meir Czudner (1888-1943), who perished in the Holocaust.
Cover design by the artist Haim Hanft. Numerous stains to cover. Inked stamps.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Yiddish and Russian Poetry and Literary Anthologies, Avant-garde
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
Opening: $200
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Three Yiddish publications, published in Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow, 1930-34.
1. Kinematograf, Vunder fun Kino un Zeyer Derklerung [Cinematograph, the Wonders of Cinema Explained], by Y. (Yehoshua) Lyubomirski. Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Tsenṭraler Felḳer-Farlag fun FSSR, 1930. Yiddish. Cover design by D. Sokolowski (please refer also to Item no. 286).
A book on the subject of the cinematic arts and photography, with illustrations and photographs.
127 [2] pp., 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and creases to cover (open tears to spine). Notation in pen to front cover. Back cover detached. Leaf possibly missing at end.
2. Revolutsionere Novelen: Zamlung [Revolutionary Novels, An Anthology], translated and collected by Z. Vitenzon and M. [Moyshe] Kulbak. Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Tsenṭraler Felḳer-Farlag fun FSSR, Ṿaysrusishe opṭeylung [Belarussian Division], 1931, Yiddish.
Works translated from from Russian, English, German, Latvian, Armenian, Japanese, and more. In some places, book pages have been left blank. The designer of the cover is unidentified.
170, [1] pp., 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Minor worming. Library inked stamps. Stains and blemishes to binding. New cloth spine and endsheets.
3. Shtern: Literarish-Kinstlerisher un Politish Visnshaftlikher Khoydesh-Zshurnal [Literary-Artistic and Political-Scientific Monthly]. Editor: Izi Kharik. 10th year, Issue No. 1, Minsk, January 1934. Yiddish.
96 pp., 24 cm. Fair condition. Minor stains. Tears, fold lines, and creases to edges of leaves and to cover. Paper dry and brittle. Large bookplate to inside front cover. Inked stamps.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
1. Kinematograf, Vunder fun Kino un Zeyer Derklerung [Cinematograph, the Wonders of Cinema Explained], by Y. (Yehoshua) Lyubomirski. Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Tsenṭraler Felḳer-Farlag fun FSSR, 1930. Yiddish. Cover design by D. Sokolowski (please refer also to Item no. 286).
A book on the subject of the cinematic arts and photography, with illustrations and photographs.
127 [2] pp., 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and creases to cover (open tears to spine). Notation in pen to front cover. Back cover detached. Leaf possibly missing at end.
2. Revolutsionere Novelen: Zamlung [Revolutionary Novels, An Anthology], translated and collected by Z. Vitenzon and M. [Moyshe] Kulbak. Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Tsenṭraler Felḳer-Farlag fun FSSR, Ṿaysrusishe opṭeylung [Belarussian Division], 1931, Yiddish.
Works translated from from Russian, English, German, Latvian, Armenian, Japanese, and more. In some places, book pages have been left blank. The designer of the cover is unidentified.
170, [1] pp., 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Minor worming. Library inked stamps. Stains and blemishes to binding. New cloth spine and endsheets.
3. Shtern: Literarish-Kinstlerisher un Politish Visnshaftlikher Khoydesh-Zshurnal [Literary-Artistic and Political-Scientific Monthly]. Editor: Izi Kharik. 10th year, Issue No. 1, Minsk, January 1934. Yiddish.
96 pp., 24 cm. Fair condition. Minor stains. Tears, fold lines, and creases to edges of leaves and to cover. Paper dry and brittle. Large bookplate to inside front cover. Inked stamps.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Yiddish and Russian Poetry and Literary Anthologies, Avant-garde
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
Opening: $100
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David Berglsohn, Mayse-Bikhl, mit litografyes un holtshniten fun Lasar Segall. Berlin: Wostok, 1923. Yiddish.
Tales by David Berglsohn, with illustrations – lithographs and woodcuts – by Lasar Segall, a Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor, born in Vilnius. Berglsohn (1884-1952), Yiddish playwright and author, was executed by Stalin in 1952.
Title page inscribed by the illustrator, Lasar Segall, with his signature (April 1928).
[4], 7-48 pp. + [8] plates, 26 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains to endpapers and first and last leaves. Several leaves are loose. Ex-library copy. Original binding, slightly warped, with fractures to the cardboard and tears to edges.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Tales by David Berglsohn, with illustrations – lithographs and woodcuts – by Lasar Segall, a Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor, born in Vilnius. Berglsohn (1884-1952), Yiddish playwright and author, was executed by Stalin in 1952.
Title page inscribed by the illustrator, Lasar Segall, with his signature (April 1928).
[4], 7-48 pp. + [8] plates, 26 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains to endpapers and first and last leaves. Several leaves are loose. Ex-library copy. Original binding, slightly warped, with fractures to the cardboard and tears to edges.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Yiddish and Russian Poetry and Literary Anthologies, Avant-garde
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Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
December 22, 2020
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Almanakh VUSPP [VUSPP Almanac] (VUSPP = Al-Ukrainishe Assotziatzie Fun Proliterishe Schreiber = All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers) – Yiddishe Sektzie [Jewish Section]. Kharkiv (Kharkov): Tzenterfarlag, 1929. Yiddish.
Literary anthology published by the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers, established in 1927. Includes works by 21 Jewish authors and poets, with accompanying woodcuts and linocuts by artists Ber/Boris Blank (1897-1957) and Moisei Fradkin (1904-1974) – both of them young artists at the time, from the same graduating class of students from the Kharkiv Institute of Art. The illustrations are signed with the initials of the two artists.
Fine copy with original binding and illustrated paper jacket.
363, [3] pp., 22.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Dampstains to upper parts of leaves. Original binding, partly detached from book block. Inked stamps and traces of gluing (library labels). Binding enclosed in original paper jacket, with tears and stains to edges, some affecting illustrations; professionally restored.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Literary anthology published by the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers, established in 1927. Includes works by 21 Jewish authors and poets, with accompanying woodcuts and linocuts by artists Ber/Boris Blank (1897-1957) and Moisei Fradkin (1904-1974) – both of them young artists at the time, from the same graduating class of students from the Kharkiv Institute of Art. The illustrations are signed with the initials of the two artists.
Fine copy with original binding and illustrated paper jacket.
363, [3] pp., 22.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Dampstains to upper parts of leaves. Original binding, partly detached from book block. Inked stamps and traces of gluing (library labels). Binding enclosed in original paper jacket, with tears and stains to edges, some affecting illustrations; professionally restored.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Category
Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Yiddish and Russian Poetry and Literary Anthologies, Avant-garde
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