Zavodnik, Max. Ein Iberashanda Lied di Karbanoth fun Essex Street Fayer
AUCTION 15 |
Tuesday, March 12th,
2002 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners
Lot 39
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Zavodnik, Max. Ein Iberashanda Lied di Karbanoth fun Essex Street Fayer
New York: Rothleder & Eibschutz c. 1890
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,400
Poem written in memory of the seven victims of a fire at a five-story building at 35 Essex Street, New York City. Fatal fires were common in these over-crowded Lower East Side tenements. The horse-drawn fire-truck notes the author sadly, arrived too late. He conludes this melancholy poem: “Scenes like this you could only find in the Golden Land.” Zavodnik, was a jester and bard. Only one other work by him is recorded, a song about the automobile