Yud. With photomontage images by Judah Lewin and Pinchas Schwartz.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

BRODERSON, MOYSHE.

printer

H. Prowizor

Place

Lodz

Publication

1939

Description

Yiddish text. On title, distinctive letter "Yud" in red. Four stark color photomontages. Signed by the Author.

summary

50 poems of 16 lines each, laden with premonitions of the tragic end of Polish Jewry in a coming world catastrophe. The author, Moyshe Broderzon (1890-1955), was active in Lodz as a journalist, poet and writer of short plays and was a consummate master of the Yiddish tongue. His poems combine Jewish folklore with European expressionism (EJ). See Z. Reisen, Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur (1956),Vol. I, p. 431.

Ex-library. Front wrapper detached. Original wrappers bound into boards. 4to

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