Chaliastra [Yiddish Language Art Periodical]. No. 1

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(CHAGALL, MARC).

printer

I. Hendler

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1922

Description

Avant-garde illustrations, including Chagall's designs to David Hofstein's poems (pp. 10 and 48)

summary

Chaliastra is a Polish word that entered the Yiddish language. It means a mob, a gang or simply: rabble. The introductory poem by Yiddish poet Moshe Broderson sets the tone: "Mir yungen, mir–a freilikhe tsezungene chaliastra / Mir geien in an umbavusten veg, / in tife moro-shkhoire'dike teg…" [We youth, we–a merry, songful gang / We go on an unknown way / in deeply depressing days…"]. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution, p. 215, no. 1504

pp. 71, (1). Lightly browned. Original color-illustrated wrappers bound into modern boards, front cover tape-repaired, back cover detached. Sm. folio

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