Auction 24 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Review Essays by "Ba'al Machshavot" – Kultur Lige – Kiev, 1920

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"Kritik", Ba'al Machshavot" (Dr. Eliashev). Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1920. Yiddish.
Literary reviews in general and reviews about different authors and poets, amongst them Zeitlin, Nathan Birenboim, Reisin, L. Shapiro, D. Einhorn, David Bergelson, and others. "Ba'al Machshavot" is the pen-name of Dr. Israel Isidor Eliashev (1873-1924), a neurologist, publicist, Zionist activist, literary editor and editor of Yiddish newspapers, translator and critic of literature, theatre and art, known as being the first critic of Yiddish literature. The emblem of "Kultur- Lige" group which appears on the cover and the emblem "Mendele, Peretz, Sholem Aleichem Kultur Fund" over the title-page leaf, were designed by Issachar Ber-Ryback. 126 [1] pp, 20.5 cm. Very good condition. Original front cover, back cover – missing. Bound in hard cover.
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature