Geklibene Verk, Funem Yarid [selected works, from the fair], by Sholem Aleichem. Part II (of two). Moscow: "Shul un Buch", 1927. Yiddish and some Russian.
Funem Yarid, the incomplete autobiography of Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). The book's cover, containing the author's portrait, was designed by Nathan Altman (1889–1970), a Russian Avant–garde painter, illustrator and set designer, of Jewish origin.
The book was part of a series dedicated to the works of Sholem Aleichem, published by "Shul un Buch", a Moscow publishing house specializing in communist and Yiddish literature.
A portrait of the author and his wife appear at the beginning of the book; at the end of the book appears an afterword by the author's son–in–law and translator Isaac Dov Berkowitz (in which it is stated that Sholem Aleichem viewed his autobiography as his "life's Song of Songs", that is, his most important work). The last page contains a facsimile of a poem in Sholem Aleichem's handwriting.

157, [3] pp. 22 cm. Good condition. Wear and minor stains. Minor tears and open tears to some leaves, affecting pagination. Rebound with the original illustrated cover.

Exhibition:
• Sanctity – Art – Aesthetics, Exhibition catalog, Mané-Katz Museum, 2011.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, B.1417.