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Die Natzion - The Nation: A Monthly Magazine for Literature, Knowledge and other Matters of Interest. * With (as issued): Ha’Am [a Hebrew supplement]. Edited by N. M. Shaikewitz and M. Goldman.

Auction 66 · Lot 185

Die Natzion - The Nation: A Monthly Magazine for Literature, Knowledge and other Matters of Interest. * With (as issued): Ha’Am [a Hebrew supplement]. Edited by N. M. Shaikewitz and M. Goldman.

Estimate
$700–$1,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

G. Robinson

Place

New York

Publication

August, 1901-February 1902

Description

Vol. I, nos. 1-7. Text in Yiddish, Hebrew, occasional English.

references

Goldman 915 (who has Vol. 2-3 only).

summary

Early, popular literary Yiddish / Hebrew monthly printed in New York. Contains poetry, current events, scholarly articles, health matters, humor and social commentary of the contemporary American-Jewish scene. The editor, N. M. Shaikewitz, writing under the alias “Sm’r,” was particularly celebrated for his suspense novels which achieved broad mass appeal. He recruited the finest literary talent in America to write for this interesting journal.
Ex-library. Modern boards with original printed wrappers bound in. 4to.
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