EYDER DU LESHST MIKH OYS: (LIDER) אײדער דו לעשסט מיך אױס: לידער
Rotshester [Rochester]: Israel Goldwasser (Emiot), 1966. Item #43105
First edition. Original illustrated printed boards, 8vo, 64 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title appears in English as “Before I Am Extinguished.”
Collection of Yiddish poems by Israel Emiot, written while he was a writer-in-residence at the Jewish Community Center in Rochester, New York.
“Emiot was born in 1909 in Ostrow Mazowiecka, then part of Congress Poland within the Russian Empire…Emiot published his first writing in 1926, and brought out four books of poetry during the 1930s.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Emiot and his wife and children fled east to the Soviet Union; his mother remained and was killed during the war. In 1944, he was sent to work as a journalist in Birobidzhan, the autonomous region set up for Jews in Siberia. Within a few years, as the climate for Jewish writers in the Soviet Union worsened, he was convicted of trumped-up crimes and sentenced to ten years of hard labor, which he served at a camp near Taishet.
After his release, he returned to Poland, and soon after emigrated to the United States, where his wife and children were living in Rochester. He spent his last decade and a half as writer-in-residence at Rochester's Jewish Community Center.” (Wikipedia)
SUBJECT(S): Yiddish poetry. OCLC: 10983110.
Contains marking in pen but otherwise excellent. Very Good Condition. (YID-46-33-+).
Price: $100.00