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Lot #    17860
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:01:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Roter Schnee
Author    [Only Ed.] Abraham Coralnik
City    Colonge
Publisher    M. DuMont
Publication Date    1907
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 14 pp. plus wrappers, 223:140 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    Drama by Abraham Coralnik (1883–1937), Yiddish essayist and literary critic. Coralnik, who was born in the Ukrainian town of Uman, studied at the universities of Kiev, Florence, Berlin, Bonn, and Vienna. He mastered a dozen languages in the course of his travels. His main interest was philosophy. Coralnik's interest in Zionism led to his appointment as editor of the Viennese Zionist organ, Die Welt, in 1904. He also edited periodicals in Agram (now Zagreb, Yugoslavia) and Czernowitz, and served as correspondent for German and Russian newspapers in Rome, Berlin, and Copenhagen. In 1915 he joined the staff of the newly founded Yiddish daily Der Tog, for which he continued to work until his death, with a single interruption in 1917–20, when his enthusiasm for the Russian Revolution led him to edit Russian journals in Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev. Although Coralnik was at first more at ease in Russian and German than in Yiddish, he gradually developed a lucid literary Yiddish. He claimed that civilization contained far more irrational entities than rational ones and sought to explore the irrational core of artistic creation and national consciousness. In 1928 his essays were collected in five volumes, and three more volumes were published posthumously.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Drama
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica