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Kharkov-Kiev: Melukhe-farlag far di natsionale minderhaytn in U.S.S.R., 1932. Item #43585
First edition. Dramatic Socialist Modernist color cover bound into period boards, 8vo, 177 pages. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Arise”
Story collection by Soviet-Jewish writer Itsik Grinzayd, with cover featuring an impressive shirtless worker towering above the smokestacks in the rear against a bright red background.
“[Grinzyad] was a Soviet Jewish prose writer and journalist, born in Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy, Ukraine, into the home of a carpenter….
From 1927 he began his work as a journalist, as well as fiction author and editor. His first sketches and stories appeared in the Kharkov newspaper Zay Greyt (Get Ready) and Yunge Gvardye (Young Guard), of which he was, first, a contributor and later the editor-in-chief. He subsequently published stories in the Kharkov monthly Prolit (Proletarian Literature) and in other periodical publications.
In 1932 he [put out] a collection of stories, but more than anything he was occupied with editorial and organizational work in the editing of Yiddish newspapers and journals—later, with ‘Ukrnatsmindfarlag’ (Publishing House for Ukrainian Ethnic Minorities), a press that also [put out] books in Yiddish. In the initial days of WWII, he departed for the front and was killed shortly thereafter.” (Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur).
No Copy listed in OCLC. We could not locate a copy using a google search. Perhaps a unique surviving copy.
Ex-library. Markings throughout and some old damp staining. Good- Condition. Exceedingly Rare and Dramatic. Very Displayable. (PSB-1-48).
Price: $750.00