Lot 342
Booklet with Songs in Yiddish – Orphanage in Warsaw, 1922 – Numbered and Signed Edition
Fun Mamen tzu Mames [From a Mother to Mothers]. By Leah Bat Tovim [Prushansky]. Warsaw: B-Cia Lewin-Epstein, [1922]. Yiddish.
"From a Mother to Mothers" – a booklet with Yiddish rhymed passages; all the revenues from the sales of this booklet went to "Eshel" orphanage in Daluga street, Warsaw (as stated in the booklet).
The first page bears a Hebrew dedication handwritten by the author, Leah Prushansky (neé Lewin-Epstein, 1869-1942).
On the front cover appears an illustration by Moshe Appelbaum (1887-1931), a Jewish painter and graphic artist, one of the pioneers of the new stage design for the Jewish modernist theater in Poland.
Copy no. 814 out of an edition of 1050 copies.
19, [1] pp, 18 cm. Good condition. bound with a string. Some stains. Some creases at margins of cover.
