A SHTERN BLIT: LIDER

New York: M Vakser Farlag it der Mithilf fun David Ignatov Literatur-Fund, 1952. paperback. 1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 8vo. 76 pages, 20 cm. Title translates to "Blossoms A Star." Nahum Baruch Minkoff (1893-1958) was a Yiddish poet, critic, and literary historian from New York by way of Warsaw. He taught at Jewish schools, the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, the New School for Social Research, and edited the Yiddish literary monthly Tsukunft. Together with the poets A. Glantz-Leyeles and Jacob Glatstein, he issued the first manifesto of the In-Zikh group, emphasizing modernism, cosmopolitanism, and individualism. In his five collections of poetry published between 1924 and 1952, Minkoff tried to analyze emotions and moods intellectually (Encyclopedia, 2009). SUBJECTS: Yiddish Poetry. Wrappers are very lightly soiled. Pages browning. Overall very good- condition. (YID-33-59-LX-'e).