Albatross, zhurnal for dem nayem dichter un kinstler oysdruk [periodical for new poetry and artistic expression], edited by Uri Zvi Greenberg. Warsaw-Berlin, 1922-1923.
Complete set (four issues in three booklets, no additional issues were printed) of the modern Yiddish periodical "Albatross", known for its impact on the Yiddish literary circles and on Jewish modernism.
In the first issue appears "manifest tsu di kegner fun der nayer dichtung" [manifest for the opponents to modern poetry] – a modernist revolutionary composition by Uri Zvi Greenberg, which has not been invisible to the open eyes of the authorities that reacted with publishing a ban while the second issue was published and all its copies confiscated. Following this event, Uri Zvi Greenberg left for Berlin. In the third issue, published in Berlin, appeared the poem "BeMalchut HaZlav" composed by Greenberg, a poem of prophecy predicting the extinction of European Jewry. A year later, in 1924, Uri Zvi Greenberg moved to Eretz Israel, where he continued his writing, in Hebrew.
1. First issue, Warsaw, 1922. Cover designed by Ze'ev (Wladislaw) Weintraub. With linoleum-cuts by Marc Schwartz. 19 pages, 34.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Dry and fragile paper. A few tears. Front cover detached.
2. Second issue, Warsaw, 1922. Linoleum-cuts on the cover and within the booklet, by Marc Schwartz. 19 pages, 33 cm. Fair condition. Many tears, some non-professionally restored.
3-4. Third and fourth issue. Berlin, 1923. Linoleum-cuts by Henrik Berlevi, Marc Schwartz and Yossef Abu HaGlili, additional illustrations – reproductions of works by Joseph Tchaikov, Issachar Ber-Ribak and other artists. 28 pages, 36.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Front cover detached. Tears to borders of covers.
Three booklets in one volume, 38 cm.
Rare. From the private collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.