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Lot #
19051
Auction End Date
10/9/2007 11:37:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Birobidshan
Title (Hebrew)
áéøòáéãæùï
Author
[Only Ed. - Noted Copy] Zishe Weinper
City
New York
Publisher
Posy-Shoulson Press
Publication Date
1935
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 64 pp., 153:115 mm., light age staining, stamps, old hands. A very good copy bound in the original boards. Signed by the author on fly.
Detailed
Description
Poetry by Zishe Weinper (pseudonym of Zise Weinperlech; 1893–1957), Yiddish poet, short story writer, editor, and essayist. Weinper was born into a hasidic family in Turisk (Ukraine). His father was a cantor and a member of the Trisker rebbe'sPage 723 | Top of Article inner circle. As a youth, Weinper wandered throughout the Ukraine and Poland and in 1910 moved to Warsaw, where he began his literary career. In 1913 he emigrated to the U.S., where he became associated with the Yiddish literary group Di Yunge. He continued his literary activities while also working as a house painter and elementary school teacher. In 1917, he edited the literary journal Der Onh eyb, which included his own works as well as those of his contemporaries such as B.J. Bialostotsky, Aaron Nissenson, and Naphtali Gross. In 1918, Weinper joined the British Jewish Legion and served in the Middle East. After returning to New York, he resumed publishing his poems, short stories, and essays in Yiddish publications such as Morgn-Zhurnal, Fraye Arbeter Shtime, and Tsukunft. The Depression of the early 1930s and the rise of Hitler in 1933 led him to join the radical left, and he became the poet and moving spirit of the Yidisher Kultur Farband, the leftist Yiddish cultural federation. His lyric volumes Poemen Vegn di Neviim ("Poems about the Prophets," 1951) and Leyd un Freyd ("Sorrow and Happiness," 1954) gave expression to his later, less optimistic moods.
Reference
Description
Rejzen, Leksikon, 1 (1926), 949f.; LNYL (1960), 369–71; Dos Z. Weinper-Bukh (1962), 3, incl. bibl.; Z. Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater, 4 (1963), 3586–89; EJ
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Subject
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Psalms
Characteristic
Autographed:
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Language:
Yiddish
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
