Afn barg
New York: Yiddish Cooperative Book League, 1938.
Illustrated by Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Rut Izrael, and William Gropper. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #15640
Light dampstain to front paste-down, light edgewear, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Yiddish language. Afn Barg = [On The Mountain], a children's poetry collection. "Kadya Molodowsky was a major figure in the Yiddish literary scene in Warsaw (from the 1920s through 1935) and in New York (from 1935 until her death in 1975). A teacher in the Yiddish schools in Warsaw as a young woman, she was best known for her children's poems. In the United States, she wrote for the Yiddish press and founded and edited a journal, Sviva (Surroundings), which she published for three decades. Living in Israel (1948-52), she founded and edited a journal, Heym. She published six major books of poems (1927-1965), novels, short stories, plays, and essays. Recurrent themes in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls, Jewish tradition in the face of modernity, Israel, and the Holocaust." - Kathryn Hellerstein, "Kadya Molodowsky", The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. This nicely illustrated, uncommon collection of children's poetry by Molodowsky was published by the Yiddish Cooperative Book League of the Jewish Section of the International Workers Order, a left-leaning fraternal organization of the 1930s & 1940s linked to the Communist Party of the United States. Illustrated by Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Rut Izrael, and William Gropper. Hard-to-find poetry collection by a leading Yiddish woman poet. ; 72 pages.
Price: $499.95