Geklibene Lider (Selected Poems) de GOTLIB, Jacob (GOTTLIEB, Jacob)

Kaunas [Kovno, Kovne]: Bukhhandlung "Pasaulis, 1939. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 95 + [1] pages. Includes frontis photo. 19 cm. In Yiddish. With bookplate of "Jewish Cultural Reconstruction," indicating that the book was found by the western Allies after WW II and given to a Jewish institution as part of rebuilding the Jewish world in the postwar years. Published in Kovno in the year of the German invasion of Poland. H. Leivick (pen name of Leivick Halpern, 1888 - 1962) was a "Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 ‘dramatic poem in eight scenes' The Golem. He also wrote many highly political, realistic plays, including Shop. He adopted the pen name of Leivick to avoid being confused with Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, another prominent Yiddish poet. Leivick was born in Chervyen, Belarus....and attended a yeshiva for several years, an experience he thoroughly disliked and depicted in his dramatic poem Chains of the Messiah. Leivick joined the Jewish Bund before or… Leer más