Auction 24 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Unter di Fligel fun Toit – Warsaw, 1923 – Illustrations by Yankl Adler
Opening: $500
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Unter di Fligel fun Toit, Avraham Zak, Mit 12 Bilder fun Yankl Adler. Warsaw: “Di Zeit”, 1923.
Avraham Zak (1891-1980) – Jewish writer who lived in Poland between the two World Wars. In this novel, Zak describes his own personal story in a literary fashion by creating the character of a Jewish soldier required to go to the front in WWI. With a dozen reproductions of drawings by Yankl Adler in the expressionist style of the “Yung Yiddish” group to which he belonged. 225 pages, 22.5 cm. Fair condition. Edges of leaves are slightly torn. Cover is loose and torn. Tear to illustration on cover. In a fine cardboard box.
Avraham Zak (1891-1980) – Jewish writer who lived in Poland between the two World Wars. In this novel, Zak describes his own personal story in a literary fashion by creating the character of a Jewish soldier required to go to the front in WWI. With a dozen reproductions of drawings by Yankl Adler in the expressionist style of the “Yung Yiddish” group to which he belonged. 225 pages, 22.5 cm. Fair condition. Edges of leaves are slightly torn. Cover is loose and torn. Tear to illustration on cover. In a fine cardboard box.
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature
Avant-Garde, Modernism and Yiddish Literature