Lot 428
David Vogel – Handwritten Postcard – Paris, 1925
David Vogel, handwritten postcard, addressed to his friend Shimon Polak in New York. Paris, 1925.
Vogel writes: "I am already in Paris…for eleven days now. I moved here in order to exchange the Viennese hunger for the Parisian one. I could not travel to Eretz Israel, I had no hope there and not enough money…and I had to leave Vienna…Life here is difficult – and the Jews, the artists, writers, painters and sculptors, are hungry, I mean real hunger to which homelessness is added". Vogel continues and asks his friend to collect for him royalties on the amount of 10 dollars from the "HaDo'ar" publishing house for two poems of his which they published.
Vogel (1891-1944) – resided alternately in Vienna, Paris, Warsaw and other cities. In 1929 he visited Eretz Israel, but did not adapt to life there and a year later he returned to Europe. Lived in conquered France during World War II; in February 1944 was deported to Germany, where he was murdered by the Nazis. Postcard 14X9 cm. Good condition.
