Der Groysser Bikitzur. Vol. I no. 1(All Published?) Yiddish text

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Lot 537
(PARODY).

Der Groysser Bikitzur. Vol. I no. 1(All Published?) Yiddish text

Profusely illustrated by WIlliam Gropper 22 pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers. Sm. folio

New York(?): Yid-Bureau Press April, 1935

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $250
A satiric anti-religious periodical edited by the Yiddish poet and humorist Moshe Nadir (pseudonym of Isaac Reis). “(Nadir’s)...major contribution to Yiddish literature, was his imaginative use of the language, demonstrating through his puns and coinages the plasticity of Yiddish.” EJ, XII 755