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Lot #    18236
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:58:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    In Yiddishen Land
Title (Hebrew)    אין יודישען לאנד
Author    [First Ed.] Samuel Jacob Imber
City    Lemberg
Publisher    Kadimah
Publication Date    1913
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 30, [1] pp., 158:120 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title wrappers, stained.
          
Detailed
Description		    Poetry by Samuel Jacob Imber (1889–1942), Yiddish poet. He was born in Sasov, Ukraine, son of the Hebrew writer Shemaryahu Imber and nephew of Naphtali Herz Imber, the author of Ha-Tikvah. With his first collection of lyrics Vos Ikh Zing un Zog ("What I Sing and Say," 1909) and above all with his poetic romance Esterke (1911), he became the pioneer and mentor of an entire generation of Galician Yiddish poets. Esterke retold a 14th-century legend about the love of the beautiful daughter of a Jewish blacksmith for the chivalrous Polish king Casimir. The poet not only cast a romantic halo about this story but also touched national chords, his main emphasis being the elegy of a Jewish father whose daughter was torn away from him by a non-Jewish king. No less an innovation in Galician Yiddish poetry were Imber's poems of longing for Erez Israel, which he visited in 1912. Some of these were translated into Russian by Elisheva in 1916. During World War I Imber edited Inter Arma (1918), a volume which included not only his own poetry but also that of his Lemberg associates Uri Zvi Greenberg, Jacob Mestel, David Koenigsberg, and Melech Ravitch. Immediately after World War I he founded the literary monthly Nayland (1918–19) as the organ of his neo-romantic, impressionistic group. Imber attained full maturity in his last poems, written shortly before his death, in his essays in Yiddish, and his polemic prose in Polish. Imber was murdered by Ukrainians during an attack on Galician Jews after the Nazi occupation of his district.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica