SHO’H FUN LID: LIDER UN POEMEN
Pariz: Bikher fun Yidishn Pen-Klub, 1951. Item #31709
Original Wraps. 8vo. 126 pages. 25 cm. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Title on title page verso: “Heure de la poe´sie; Chou fun lid. Hour for Song; Songs and Poems, by Chaim Leib Fox “ “ (Fuks/Fuchs; 1897–1984) , Yiddish author and journalist. Born in Lodz, Fox was at the center of its Yiddish literary life, which he described in a number of essays (e. G. , ‘Dos Yidishe Literarishe Lodzh’ (‘Yiddish Literary Lodz’) , in: Fun Noentn Over, 3 (1957) , 189–284) and in his monograph Lodzh shel Mayle (‘Heavenly Lodz, ’ 1972) . During World War I Fox was a labor conscript in Germany. After a brief period in the Bund, he joined the Labor Zionist movement and, in Palestine (1936–38) , the Haganah. During World War II he was in the Soviet Union (1940–46) and thereafter lived in Lodz, Paris (1948–53) , and New York. He wrote for many periodicals and contributed over 3, 000 articles to the Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur. A poet of intense religious and national feeling, he published seven volumes of poetry (1926–82) and wrote the historical novel Gyoras Letster Veg (‘Giora's Final Road, ’ 1939) and 100 Yor Yidishe un Hebreishe Prese in Kanade (‘100 Years of Yiddish and Hebrew Press in Canada, ’ 1980) . Subjects: Yiddish Poetry. OCLC lists 22 copies. Light soiling to wraps, light tear to top and bottom of backstrip, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (YID-18-2).
Price: $100.00