Book details: BRENENDIKE BRIKN : ANTOLOGYE FUN REVOLUTSIYONERER LIRIK IN DER NAYER YIDISHER DIKHTUNG FUN UKRAINE
$US 250.00
Korman, Ezra, editor.
BRENENDIKE BRIKN : ANTOLOGYE FUN REVOLUTSIYONERER LIRIK IN DER NAYER YIDISHER DIKHTUNG FUN UKRAINE
Imprint: Berlin : Yidisher Literarisher Farlag,, 1923
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition with this title. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 12mo, 158 pages. 19cm. In Yiddish. Cover and illustrations by A. Mintshin. Title translates as , "Burning Bridges: An Anthology of Revolutionary Lyrics in the New Yiddish Poetry of Ukraine. " Kathryn Hellerstein, in her "A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987" (Stanford, 2014) , makes many references to this work, noting in particular the illustrations: "The single illustration by Rybak for Korman's Brenendike brikn is the publisher's insignia on the first leaf of the volume: a black shield with the three-word name of the press curving across the top, center, and bottom of the shiel, in contrasting black and white letters, and a stylized folk motif of two gazelles or deer. One of the illustrations by A. Mintshin is on the cover of the softcover volume with images of three broken, weblike arched bridges floating through a whirlwind at upended angles; the title of the book in contrasting black-and-white letters; and the title and author's name in concentric curve at the bottom of the image. Mintshin also did the illustrations marking each of the three sections of poems in the anthology, which Korman calls 'cycles. ' The titles of the sections were taken from poem by David Hofshteyn; 'In veltn-konen, ' 'Infayerdikn doyer, ' and 'Rusland. ' Mintshin also designed the titles that mark the heading, 'Antologye, ' and the two tables of contents, 'Inhalt" (p. 442) . Including the cover, the work contains a total of 4 illustrations by Mintshin and one by Rybak. Includes indexes. "gezamlt un tsunoyfgeshtelt? Mit a forvort fun E. K? Orman. " Previously published under the title, "In Fayerdikn Doyer. " Paper is very fragile, with some chipping at margins. Lacks rear cover. Still dramatic. (yid-26-25)
Stock number:39334.