Book details: IN TREBLINKE BIN IKH NIT GEVEN: LIDER UN POEMES
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Leivick, H
IN TREBLINKE BIN IKH NIT GEVEN: LIDER UN POEMES
Imprint: New York; Tziko, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 347 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Inscribed by the author. Title translates as: “I was not in Treblinka: Songs and Poems ” This collection of poems about the Shoah is one of H Leivick’s best known works. A celebrated left wing Yiddish poet and novelist , H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern) (1888-1962) , was a member of the Bund in 1905 and escapee from Siberia in 1913. He worked for many years as a wallpaper hanger in New York, and obtained considerable fame worldwide as a Yiddish poet and playwright. Leivick traveled to Germany with a Holocaust survivor in 1946 in order to provide words of encouragement to survivors living in displaced persons (DP) camps. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poetry. Light wear to edges of covers, outer edges lightly soiled, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-102-4xx)
Stock number:30366.