PERMANENT DELEGATE: TWO POEMS
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1955. Item #42175
Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo, [12] pages. Two sorrowful poems weeping for those murdered in the Holocaust, translated from the Yiddish. "Written by an American poet, in Yiddish, composed in sorrow and in anger by a poet who felt the agony of his Jewish brothers in the marrow of his bones." The Preface by Rosenfeld opposes the rearmament of Germany. Yuri Suhl (1908-1986), was “an author and artist…[who] was born in Galicia, a region of Poland that was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and came to the United States in 1923, settling in Brooklyn. In 1932 he graduated from Jewish Workers University, a two-year night school, and took a job in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, teaching the children of Yiddish-speaking working-class immigrants.During this period, the first of Mr. Suhl's four volumes of Yiddish poems was published. He subsequently wrote a number of children's books in English” as well as a biography for adults, ‘Ernestine L. Rose and the Battle for Human Rights,’ published in 1959. “He also wrote two autobiographical novels, ‘One Foot in America’ and 'Cowboy on a Wooden Horse.' One of his best-known books was 'They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe' (1967).Mr. Suhl publicly protested the persecution of Jews in Poland and the Soviet Union. He was also a trustee of the fund established for the two young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies” (NYT, 1986). OCLC: 970969519. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (NYU, NYPL, YIVO, UMich), none at any Ivy League institution. Light toning, Very Good Condition. Scarce. (Holo2-160-1).
Price: $135.00