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Lot #    11733
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 11:30:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Vegen der sexualer fraga
Title (Hebrew)    וועגען דער סעקסועלער פראגא
Author    Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, graf
City    Warsaw
Publisher    S. Goldfarb
Publication Date    1927
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First Yiddish edition. 138, [1] pp., 205:140 mm., usual age staining, nice margins, some worming. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Count Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910 was the author of numerous books, including the famous War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata and Anna Karenina, among others. At the time Tolstoy was drafting Anna Karenina, the pages of the Russian "thick journals", where most novels appeared in serial form and most political debates were waged, were filled with discussion of the social questions urgently under consideration: the slavery question, the sexual question, and the "woman question." This last issue concerned the status and proper role of women in society, whether or not women should receive higher education, access to the professions, or the right to retain legal ownership of their children or property.

The present volume deals with the sexual question, particularly as it relates to The Kreutzer Sonata. The English translation of the beginning of this volume is available at http://www1.umn.edu/lol-russ/hpgary/russ1905/epilogue%20to%20kreutzer%20sonata.htm where it is entitled Epilogue to the Kreutzer, written by Tolstoy in 1890.

It was translated into Yiddish by "S. Z". This volume is very rare, as it is not in any of the major collections.

          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Sex
  
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Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica