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"Neshef Elisheva" - Advertisement Poster for a Literary Event with the Participation of the Poet Elisheva - Haifa, 1930s

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Advertisement poster for "Neshef Elisheva" - literary event with the participation of the poet Elisheva, held in the Reali School in Haifa. A. Eitan and S. Shoshani press, Tel-Aviv, [1930s].
The poet Elisheva (pen name of Elizaveta Ivanovna Zhirkova-Bikhovsky, 1888-1949) Born in Russia to a Christian-Pravoslav family. As a youth she learned Yiddish and Hebrew and later started to translate and compose poems in Hebrew. In 1925 she immigrated to Palestine with her husband, the publisher and journalist Shimon Bikhovsky. In Palestine she published poetry in Hebrew (original poetry and Hebrew translations and for several years was very successful in the world of poetry and literature. Amongst others, literary parties were organized in her honor in the country and abroad.
90X33 cm. Fair condition. Folding marks and creases. Tears at margins and at folding marks (some are long). Some tears are repaired with adhesive tape. Stains. Ink-stamps.
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