MANNE, MORDECHAI TZVI.

Vilna

1878

Autograph Letter Signed with two page Hebrew poem entitled “Machzeh Emeth” written to and in honor of a friend: “This poem was composed while my spirit was burning with the fire of your love..its words remind me of the days of the past, with their beautiful ornaments and blaze of color.”

Mordechai Manne (1859-1886) was a promising Hebrew poet and artist who died aged 27 before reaching his full poetic and artistic stature. After studying in Yeshivoth in Minsk and Vilna, he enrolled in the Vilna Art School and thereafter the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. His collected works appeared posthumously in 1897. According to Waxman his poems “bear the mark of real talent” and were "superior to Dolitsky and Imber “in intensity of feeling, flight of imagination and poetic vigor.” See A History of Jewish Literarure, vol. 4, pp. 207-210