MENDELE-ZAMLBUKH: AROYSGEGEBN TSUM 100-STN GEBURTSTOG FUN MMS [MENDELE MACHER SFORIM]
Vilna: Grininke Beymelekh, 1936. Item #41770
|1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 46 pages, 26 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as” Mendele Anthology: Published for the 100th Birthday of MMS.” A nazi-era Yiddish language study book on Mendele Mokher Sefarim, produced by the children's publishers Grinke Beymelekh ("Green Saplings"). Mendele Mokher Seforim (1835-1917) is revered as the “grandfather of Yiddish literature” for his innovations in laying a new literary framework for Yiddish. His work realistically portrayed Jewish life with honesty and without judgment and depicted the world of the shtetl [village] with all its poverty and decay; all its joy and poetry. Mendele was born in Belorussia (Belarus) and came from a comfortable family of Lithuanian rabbis. He initially wrote in Hebrew and was a proponent of the Haskalah, but started writing writing in Yiddish in the 1860s (Stevens, 2019). SUBJECTS: Yiddish-language study. OCLC Number:234575366. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (NLI, YIVO, Harvard, NYBC, HUC). Spine rebacked with tape, paper toning, a bit fragile at the edges with some light damp stains. Pages and wrappers are edge worn with no loss to contents. About Good- Condition. Scarce. (YID-33-63-'elx).
Price: $225.00