PRAVOZSHITELSTVO: ERTSEHLUNGEN, MAYSELEKH UN BILDER. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES פראוואזשיטעלסטווא: ערצעהלונגען, מעשה׳לעך און בילדער
Varshe-Vilne [Warsaw-Vilnius]: Farlag Yehudiah, 1912. Item #43506
First edition. Period boards with original color illustrated wrappers bound in, 8vo, Volume I: 20+16+20+18+18+32+24+20 pages; Volume II: 14+20+15+14+22+14+18+14+15+16 pages [330 pages total]. 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Right of Residence: Narratives, Stories and Pictures.”
Humorous stories by Soviet Yiddish writer Zalmen Wendroff with gorgeous cartoon illustrated covers.
“Born in Slutsk, Belorussia, into a family of a ritual slaughterer, Zalmen Vendrof (commonly rendered Zalman Wendroff) received a traditional Talmudic education and studied with private teachers, but ultimately failed his secondary school examinations. From the age of 16, he lived in Lodz, where he worked at a factory. From the early 1900s, Vendrof traveled the world, trying different jobs such as peddling, teaching, and typesetting. His peripatetic youth included a stint in England (1901–1905), a brief spell in Moscow as an English teacher (1905), and another period as a Yiddish journalist in America. In London, he became a friend of anarchist leader Rudolf Rocker and wrote for anarchist Yiddish periodicals…
…In 1908 Vendrof returned to Russia, where he replaced Philip Krantz as Warsaw correspondent for Morgen-zhurnal (Morning Journal), the second-largest New York Yiddish daily. He lived in Warsaw until 1915, contributing to the Yiddish newspapers Haynt (Today) and Idishes tageblat (Jewish Daily). He became one of the best-selling Yiddish prose writers, and a number of his works were translated into Russian. His 14 titles, many of them from the cycle Pravozhitelstvo (Right of Residence), were published in Warsaw and Vilna in 1912 and 1913 [this work]. His critical portrayals of life in the Pale of Jewish Settlement had a strong, if short-lived, resonance among Jewish and Russian readers and were quoted in the Russian Duma’s polemics” (YIVO)
SUBJECT(S): Yiddish wit and humor. Short stories, Yiddish. OCLC: 41893717
Ex-library with some markings, staining, and foxing throughout. Good Condition. (YID-48-119-’mexlccgg).
Price: $375.00