TSVISHN HAMER UN SERP: TSU DER GESHIKHTE FUN DER LIKVIDATSYE FUN DER YIDISHER KULTUR IN SOVETN-RUSLAND צװישן האמער און סערפ: צו דער געשיכטע פון דער ליקװידאציע פון דער ײדישער קולטור אין סאָװעטן־רוסלאנד
Buenos Ayres: Der Emes, 1950. Item #43184
Original photographic wrappers. 8vo, 122 pages. Includes illustrations, 17 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Between Hammer and Sickle: Toward the History of the Liquidation of Jewish Culture in Soviet Russia.” Title appears in Spanish as “Entre el martillo y la hoz : para la historia de la liquidacio´n de la cultura judi´a en la Rusia Sovie´tica.”
Book by Shmerke Kaczerginski with dramatic red, black, and white cover with photos of Soviet Jewish writers. On the suppression of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union and his experiences living under Soviet policies in Vilna. Kaczerginski was earlier a prominent member of the Communist Party but became disillusioned with the Party after the Soviet Union took control of Lithuania.
Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954) was “Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Talmud [sic Talmud Torah]… As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term.
In the 1930s, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote short stories with a radical bent and was a correspondent and reporter for literary publications, including the semilegal leftist press in Poland and the New York Communist daily Morgn-frayhayt.
Kaczerginski played a key role in shaping the writers’ and artists’ group Yung-Vilne; he organized its evening events and was the de facto publisher of its three miscellanies between 1934 and 1936. During the period of Soviet control over Lithuania in 1940–1941, he was even more active in the field of Yiddish culture, but at the same time experienced his first disappointments with the attitude of the Soviet regime toward Jewish culture. During the first period of Nazi occupation, Kaczerginski wandered through villages and towns posing as a deaf mute; after many difficulties, he ended up in the Vilna ghetto…” (YIVO)
…Kaczerginski was very involved in the ghetto’s cultural activities and was a participant in the Paper Brigade, smuggling books out of the Vilna ghetto. After the war, he returned to Vilna but later relocated to Paris and then Buenos Aires in 1950.
SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Soviet Union. Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union. Jews. Ethnic relations. Jews -- Persecutions. Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations. Soviet Union. OCLC: 29937679
Very Good Condition. (BK5) (YID-48-20-LEXCCGG-’bb).
Price: $100.00