Yiddish

A BLETL IN VINT: POEME

1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 16mo (small) , 63 pages, 17 cm. Includes portrait of the author (tipped in as published) . A rare Yung Vilne publication. The cover makes use of an interesting period modernist font and design; the title page uses a different but striking constructivist layout and font as well. “hil'e getseykhnt? , Roz'e Sutskever ; portret? , Bentye Mikt? Om. ” Rosa Sutzkever “was one of the best-known artists of Vilna, ” and had trained at the Art Academy there (Bogen, 1991) and was part of Yung Vilna. Yung-Vilne (“Young Vilna”) , was a “Yiddish literary group, introduced in the daily Vilner Tog in 1929 with the headline: ‘Young Vilna Marches into Yiddish Literature. ’ It aroused excitement through its miscellanies (Yung-Vilne, 1934–36) , its contributions to local and international Yiddish journals, and individual books of verse and fiction. Principal members included poets Chaim Grade , Shimshon Kahan, Peretz Miransky, Abraham Sutzkever , Elkhanan Wogler, and Leyzer Wolf , prose writers Shmerke Kaczerginski and Moyshe Levin, and artists Bentsie Mikhtom and Rokhl Sutzkever. Dozens more were associated with the group, whose members were united by generation, place, a shared humanistic orientation, and the encouragement of local intellectuals like Zalman Rejzen and Max Weinreich . A Yung-Vilne evening in the Vilna ghetto, the participation of several members in the partisan underground, and the accomplishments of Grade and Sutzkever as leading postwar Yiddish writers assure that Yung-Vilne will be remembered as one of the great incubators of Jewish creativity in interwar Poland” (Lipzin & Cammy, 2007) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (NYBC, HUC, McGill, TAU) . Title penned on spine, paper toning, touch of wear to corner, about Very Good Condition. Rare, important, and attractive (Yid-29-35)