1. Di broyne bestye, balades un satires [the "Brown Beast", ballads and satires], by Lazer Wolf. Illustrations: A. Hafter. Moscow: "Der Emes", 1943. Yiddish.
Anthology of poems defaming Hitler and Nazi Germany, by the Yiddish poet Lazer Wolf. Wolf (1910-1943) was a member of "yung vilne" group [Young Vilnius], a literary, Jewish-Yiddish group active in Vilnius from 1927 until the late 1930s.
40 pp, 14.5 cm. Good condition. Stains (dark stains on cover) and creases.
2. Zalts in di oygen, B. Gutyanski [Binyamin Gutinski]. Illustrations: A. Hafter. Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. Yiddish.
22 rhymed stories ridiculing Hitler and Nazi Germany, illustrated with numerous harsh and humorous anti-Hitler illustrations. The author, Gutyanski (1905-1949), Yiddish poet, translator and editor. Composed poems for children and rhymed stories and short sketches for papers in Yiddish and Russian. Gutyanski joined the Red Army in 1942, at first as a writer of anti-Nazi propaganda and later as a fighter. Translated Don Quixote into Yiddish. Gutyanski disappeared in 1948; he was probably arrested, tortured in a Soviet prison and executed with other Jewish creators in 1949. 38, [2] pp, 16.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains on cover. Tears to spine and to several leaves.