Lot 254
Avraham Kahana - Handwritten Memoirs - Memoirs about Bialik, about Zhitomir and its People
Memoirs handwritten by Avraham Kahana. [Tel-Aviv, early 1940s].
Handwritten memoirs of Kahana's childhood and adolescence in Zhitomir and the vicinity. A significant parts of the memoirs is about Chaim Nachman Bialik who was only one year older than Kahana and was also born near Zhitomir and dwelled there. Kahana also mentions authors and intellectuals, who are related to Zhitomir or to Bialik. He writes about Bialik and Ahad HaAm: "I remember that once we took a long walk and he was talking all the time about Odessa and its intellectual… while talking he stopped and said: there is one man there - Asher Ginzburg - yellow, small and thin and he is a great man and on Friday nights people gather in his home and argue and talk…" (Hebrew).
8 leaves: 28 cm + [5] leaves: 24.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears at margins of leaves. Filing holes to small leaves.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.
