FUN VILNER GETO פונ ווילנער געטא
Moskve: Melukhefaralg "Der emes", 1946. Item #42998
1st edition. Original printed boards, Small 8vo, 254 + [2] pages. Includes illustrations and facsimiles. 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “From the Vilna Ghetto.” Soviet orthography.
Not to be confused with the more common versions published in Paris and Buenos Aires under slightly different title ("Vilner Geto").
Sutzkever (1913-2010), a leader of resistance in the Vilna Ghetto, was a leading 20th Century Yiddish poet, with the New York Times praising him as one of the greatest poets of the Holocaust. He was called as a witness during the Nuremberg trials to testify against Franz Murer, the murderer of his mother and son and was the first Yiddish writer to win the Israel Prize (Wikipedia).
During the war, Sutzkever worked with others in the partisan underground in the ghetto, rescuing hundreds of the city’s most valuable literary treasures through their secret work as members of what came to be known as the Paper Brigade. The group’s principal members during its period of greatest productivity included poets Chaim Grade, Shimshon Kahan, Perets Miranski, Avrom [Abraham] Sutzkever, Elkhonen Vogler, and Leyzer Volf; prose writers Shmerke Kaczerginski (also the group’s organizer) and Moyshe Levin” (YIVO). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. -- History. World War, 1939-1945 -- Juifs -- Perse´cutions -- Lituanie -- Vilnious. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Juifs -- Lituanie -- Vilnious. OCLC: 976790321.
Light edgwear and some toning to cover, but binding remains strong, as does paper with is bright a sturdy. Very Good- Condition. (Holo2-162-34-BALEO-’x).
Price: $250.00