Auction 18 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Salt in the Eyes" - Moscow, 1944

Opening: $120
Sold for: $225
Including buyer's premium
Gutyanski, B. [Binyamin]. Zalts in Di Oygn. Illustrations: A. Hafter. Moscow: "Der Emes", 1944. Yiddish.
Twenty two rhymed stories condemning Hitler and Nazi Germany, with harsh and humorous illustrations. The author, Gutyanski (1905-1949) - Yiddish poet, translator and editor. Composed poems for children, rhymed stories and short sketches for papers in Yiddish and Russian. Joined the Red Army in 1942, at first as a writer of anti-Nazi propaganda and later as a fighting soldier. Translated Don Quixote by Cervantes into Yiddish. Gutyanski disappered in 1948; he was probably arrested, tortured in a Soviet Prison and executed with other Jewish producers in 1949. 38, [2] pp, 17 cm. Good condition. Ex-library copy. Stains, mainly to cover.
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