Book details: DER FOLKS FAYND: SHOYSHPIL IN FINF AKTEN
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Ibsen, Henrik; Saul Joseph Yanovsky
DER FOLKS FAYND: SHOYSHPIL IN FINF AKTEN
Imprint: New York; Aroysgegeben Fun Der Broshuren Grupe Fun Der Progresiv Laybreri, 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Later Cloth. 12mo. 138 pages. 19 cm. First Yiddish edition. Original Norwegian title: En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People) , 1882. One of Henrik Ibsen's more famous plays, written in response to the negative public reception of his play Ghosts, this play deals with the issues of censorship, public perceptions, the common good, and the demagoguery of the majority. Translated into Yiddish here for the first time by the anarchist Saul Yanovsky and published by the Progressive Library of New York, with frontispiece illustration of Ibsen. With front verso bookstamp of the Lewis Putzel Memorial Talmud Torah Library, Baltimore. Subjects: Yiddish drama - Translations from Norwegian. Norwegian drama - Translations into Yiddish. Swedish drama - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 12 copies. Front hinges lightly shaken, light soiling to endpages, institutional stamps on endpages, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (SPEC-39-43)
Stock number:32954.