39. [Inscrbed Book of Holocaust Poems by Leading Female Yiddish Poet] Molodowsky, Kadia

DER MELEKH DOVID ALEYN IZ GEBLIBN [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR] דער מלך דוד אלײן איז געבליבן

New York: Papirene Brik, 1946. Item #43238

First edition. Original boards. 8vo, 156 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title appears in English as “Only King David Remained.”

Inscribed by Molodowsky on title page in year of publication

Early post-war book of poems by Kadya Mololdowsky that is composed of poems about the Holocaust and that “draw upon traditional Jewish literary responses to catastrophe.” Contains some of Molodowsky’s most well regarded poems.

Kadya Molodowsky was a major figure in the Yiddish literary scene in Warsaw (from the 1920s through 1935) and in New York (from 1935 until her death in 1975). A teacher in the Yiddish schools in Warsaw as a young woman, she was best known for her children's poems.

In the United States, she wrote for the Yiddish press and founded and edited a journal, Sviva (Surroundings), which she published for three decades. Living in Israel (1948-52), she founded and edited a journal, Heym. She published six major books of poems (1927-1965), novels, short stories, plays, and essays. Recurrent themes in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls, Jewish tradition in the face of modernity, Israel, and the Holocaust.

SUBJECT(S): Yiddish poetry. David, King of Israel -- Poetry. David, King of Israel. Poetry. OCLC: 19314664.

Clean copy with book stamp from “Emil Gorovets’s Library.” Very Good Condition. An attractive inscribed work by a leading female Yiddish writer. (YID-48-47-LEXCCM!-’gg).

Price: $375.00