Auction 5 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Shtrom– Moscow, 1922 – Designed by Mark Chagall

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"Shtrom" (stream); issues 1-4 are bound together. Moscow, 1922-1923.
Literary-artistic journal founded by the literature division of the "Kultur-Lige", which moved from Kiev to Moscow at the beginning of the 1920s. Published in 1922-1924; altogether 5 booklets were published (6 issues – the last booklet is a double issue). The journal's initial goal was to unite modernist Yiddish authors from around the world, not only from Russia. Although it did not become an official journal at the time, it was the first attmpt to make a Yiddish Soviet literary newspaper. The last editions were published under strict censoring by the communist government. The cover was designed by Mark Chagall.
Yiddish. This volume only contains the cover page of the first issue.
79;80;83;95 pages, 24.5 cm.
Fair condition. Printed on thin brittle paper. Cover of first issue is detached with omissions, affecting . First page broken.
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