Boymvol, Rochel. Bertshik Brud.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 100
(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE).

Boymvol, Rochel. Bertshik Brud.

Illustrated. pp. 19. Brittle. Original color pictorial wrappers, rebacked, outer portion of front cover repaired. 8vo.

Minsk: Meluhe-Ferlag fun Veisrusland, Nazsecter 1936

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $350
Rochel Boymvol (1914-2000) was the daughter of Judah-Leib Boymvol, a theater manager and director who was murdered in a pogrom in 1920 while touring with his Jewish company. Rachel grew up in a culture fluent in both Yiddish and Russian. Her first poems, in Yiddish, were published in a Komsomol magazine when she was nine years old. She later wrote, “The Bolsheviks saved me from death, and I was a fervent Bolshevik. I drew five-cornered stars, but also six-cornered, Jewish ones, because the Bolsheviks loved Jews. In my head was a confusion that would last many years. Boymvol died in Jerusalem. (Wikipedia.)