Lot 325
Shtrom – Moscow, 1922 / Issues 1-2/ Cover Design by Marc Chagall
Shtrom [stream], Choydesh heftn. Moscow, 1922. Yiddish.
Issues 1-2. On the title page of the first issue appears a handwritten dedication by the poet Aharon Kushnirov. Amongst the writers: David Hofstein, Baynush Steiman, Aharon Kushnirov, Dvora Kalyatzkin, Shmuel Rassin, Marc Chagall, I. Davrushin, Peretz Markish, Der Nistar, S. Gordon, and others. "Shtrom" is a literary-artistic periodical founded by the literature division of "Kultur Lige", that moved in the early 1920s from Kiev to Moscow. The periodical was published during the years 1922-1924; altogether 5 booklets have been printed. In the beginning the periodical attempted to unite the modernistic Yiddish writers throughout the world, not only in Russia. At the time the periodical was not an official journal, however, it is the first attempt to publish a literary Soviet journal in Yiddish. The last issues of this periodical were published under tight supervision of the communist censorship. Cover design by Marc Chagall.
First Booklet: [2], 80, [2] pp, 26 cm. Fair condition. Tears at margin of cover, creases at margin of leaves. Stains. Last leaves and back cover are detached. Second Booklet: [2], 80, [2] pp, 26 cm. Good-Fair condition. Tears, stains and damages to the cover. Most of the leaves in good condition (stains).
