Lekh-Lekha
Lodz: Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye Baym Tsentral-komitet fun Poylishe Yidn/ Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 70pp. [4]. B/w photo-illustrated wrappers. B/w lettering on the front cover. A book of Yiddish poetry, published by the Central Jewish Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, not long after the end of the war, as part of their series of Yiddish literature publications. The author, Simhah Bunam Szajewicz (1908-ca. 1944) composed the title work while in the Lodz ghetto, and is believed to have died in the camps. The book is comprised of two main poems, "Lekh-Lekha" and "Friling 702". Includes introduction and notes from Polish-Jewish historian Nachman Blumenthal (1902-1983). Also included are facsimile reproductions of pages from the original manuscripts of the poems. Table of contents at the rear.
Text in Yiddish.
Wrappers with minor rubbing to extremities. Top left corner of the back cover lightly chipped. Interior with age toning to pages. Book block tight. Wrappers in very good-, interior in very good+ condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. vg- to vg+. Item #46693
Hebrew: לך לך , שאיעוויטש, צענטראלער יידישער היסטאָרישער קאָמיסיע ביים צענטראלער קאָמיטעט פון פוילישע יידן.
Price: $500.00