Togbukh fun a Meydl 14 Yuni - 1 Oygust 1944
Tel Aviv: Menorah, 1958. Softcover. 8vo. 322pp. (1). Original printed paper wrappers with photograph of Anne Frank on front cover. Yiddish translation of the Diary of Anne Frank. As a child Anne Frank hid with her family to escape the Nazis. Several days after the last entry in her diary the family was captured and shipped to concentration camps where all but her father perished. Includes b/w photographs from a theater production of Anne Frank and an afterward by the early Holocaust historian Nahman Blumenthal. This book was one of three Yiddish translations printed in 1958. The other ones were printed in Buenos Aires and Bucharest. The diary itself was first printed in Amsterdam in 1947. It is widely seen as the most influential piece of literature regarding the Holocaust and has been translated into numerous languages. Translating the diary into Yiddish helps bring Anne Frank into the context of the wider tragedy of the destruction of European Jewry. Text in Yiddish. Wrappers stained and creased. Overall in good- condition. g-. Item #35825
Price: $450.00