GROSSMAN, REUBEN. Ibim

Estimate

$600–$800

Hammer price

$600

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

Yechezkel Lipshitz

Place

New York

Publication

1918

Description

FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of the Author

references

Deinard, Koheleth America 2

summary

Born in Chicago in 1905, Grossman was raised with Hebrew as his mother-tongue. A most precocious Hebraist, here issuing, on the occasion of his Bar-Mitzvah, a collection of thirteen of his short stories and thirteen poems. Aged 24, Grossman migrated to the Land of Israel, and in addition to publishing further works of poetry and translations of Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson and Poe, he rose to become Supervisor of English for the Israel Ministry of Culture and Education. Grossman (who Hebraicized his name to Avinoam) died in Tel Aviv in 1974. See Tidhar 357-8; UJE, V 107

pp.96. Original printed grey boards, broken. 8vo

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