Postcard with a letter handwritten and signed by Yosef Haim Brenner. Sent to Baltimore, addressed to the American Hebrew poet Ephraim Eliyahu Lisitzky. Jerusalem, [1912].
This postcard contains a brief letter relating to the publication of Lisitzky's poetry in the journals Brenner edited at the time: "Your last postcard lay unanswered till today, when I [finally] got up from the deathbed. With regard to the poems, I already informed you as to their fate at the time. ‘To the Locomotive' was printed in ‘HeAhdut,' ‘Come' and ‘Sonata' have already been compiled as parts of an anthology which will appear in a few weeks. The anthology will not be under the title ‘Revivim,' but rather under ‘Meanwhile'; I have decided not to have my name associated with it as editor, for reasons of my own. You will receive payment for the poems from the publisher: Y. Feldman (R. Binyamin). Be well and regards, Y. H. Brenner."
The postcard bears the name of the sender, the name and address of the recipient and a postmark of the Austrian post in Jerusalem.
Ephraim Eliyahu Lisitzky (1885-1962), a prominent American Hebrew-language poet. His works often focused on America and its landscapes, and on the Native American ("Smouldering Campfires") and African American ("Tents of Africa") populations. Early in his career, he published many of his poems with the support and under the guiding hand of Yosef Haim Brenner.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good condition. Stains. Blemishes to margins.
This postcard was published in the book titled "Letters of Y. H. Brenner" by Menahem Poznansky (Tel Aviv: Davar, 1940/41; Letter No. 529).