Auction 24 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"The Literary World" – Weekly for Yiddish Literature – New-York, 1912-1913

Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
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Di literarishe velt, vokhenshrift far literature, kunst, kritik un kultur-fragen, edited by Avraham Reisen. New-York, 1912-1913. Yiddish.
A weekly magazine for literature, art, reviews and cultural matters. First volume, issues 1-16, December 1912 till March 1913. No more issues have been printed. Amongst the writers are some of the leading Yiddish authors and poets of the period: Reisen, Nomberg, Peretz Hirshbein, Leon Kovrin, Moris Rosenfeld, Shalom Asch, Mani Leib, and others; translations from foreign languages were also published in the magazine (Charles Baudelaire, Henri Bergson, and others). All of the issues are in original cover, with an illustration by the artist Saul Raskin. Bound together, vol. 21 cm. Good condition.
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature