Lot 219
Alefbeis – Yiddish Book for the Study of Letters – Moscow, 1947
Alefbeis, Leib Kvitko. Moscow: "Der Emes",1947. Yiddish.
A book for the study of Yiddish, in a Soviet format, which does not include final letters and spells words of Hebrew origin according to the new Yiddish spelling rules. The book was published by the "Yevsektsiya", the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party. The letters of the "Alef Bet" were decorated by Michail Ya [Yoffe], and next to each letter appears a short rhymed poem about it. The book features verse and short stories in Yiddish as well as a chart comparing Yiddish and Cyrillic Alphabet.
47, [1] pp, 25.5 cm. Good condition.
