Lot 334
"Devarenu", Zionist-Hebrew Journal for Literature and Current Events – Vienna, 1930-1931 – Issues 1-11
"Devarenu", a monthly edited by Y. [Yonah] Gelernter. Six booklets from the first and second years – issues 1-11. Vienna: "Histadrut Ivrit", [1930-1931] (two booklets were published by "LeMa'an Devarenu").
The major part of the journal is dedicated to literature, poetry and critique, with contributions by Shaul Tchernichovsky, Leah Goldberg, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Avigdor Hameiri, Yitzchak Lamdan, Gabriel Talphir, and others. The journal contains articles dealing with the Zionist Movement, current events and the Yishuv in Palestine: the 1929 Palestine Riots, the recommendation of the Shaw Commission, the congress of Revisionist Zionism in Prague, the activity of Zionists across Europe and in Vienna in particular, and more.
In the first booklet from 1931 (issues 7-8), there is an editorial announcement according to which the "Histadrut HaIvrit" (Hebrew Federation) in Vienna stopped publishing the journal. This booklet and the following one were published by a different publishing house – "LeMa'an Devarenu".
A total of eleven issues in six booklets. Number of pages varies, 30.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and fold lines. Creases and small tears (most of them to edges). Stamps and stickers on the front covers of several booklets (on several of the booklets, the addresses to which they were sent is noted. Two of them were sent to Palestine). The back cover of the first booklet is missing.
