Auction 24 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

The Wandering Jew – Shangahi, 1948 – Author's Dedication

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Fervagelte yidn – dartsaylungen [the wandering Jew – a tale], by Jacob Hirsch Fishman. Shanghai, 1948. Yiddish.
Dedicated to the memory of the writer's wife and daughter who were murdered by the Germans in Poland. On the title page - a handwritten dedication by the author. 66 pp, [blank leaf, 2 additional leaves], 19 cm. Good condition. Library ink-stamp and a sticker on the spine. Rare. Only a few Hebrew and Yiddish books from Shanghai from 1948 appear in bibliography lists since most Jews, holocaust refugees, left Shanghai in 1946-1947.
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