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1st edition. Later pamphlet protector, 12mo, 30 pages. 20 cm. In Yiddish. A play. Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859 –1916) , better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was the leading Yiddish author and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th Century. “The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. …. From 1880 to 1883 he served as crown rabbi in Lubny…. After witnessing the pogroms that swept through southern Russia in 1905, Sholem Aleichem left Kiev and resettled to New York City, where he arrived in 1906.…In July 1908, during a reading tour in Russia, Sholem Aleichem collapsed on a train going through Baranowicze. He was diagnosed with a relapse of acute hemorrhagic tuberculosis and spent two months convalescing in the town's hospital. He later described the incident as "meeting his majesty, the Angel of Death, face to face", and claimed it as the catalyst for writing his autobiography, Funem yarid [From the Fair]. He thus missed the first Conference for the Yiddish Language, held in 1908 in Czernovitz; his colleague and fellow Yiddish activist Nathan Birnbaum went in his place…. Sholem Aleichem moved to New York City again with his family in 1914. The family lived in the Lower East Side, Manhattan” where he died in 1916 (Wikipedia, 2017) . His funeral was the largest New York City had ever seen, bringing to the streets some 150, 000 mourners. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish drama. Short stories, Yiddish. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide(NYPS, YIVO, Brandeis, Brown, Florida) , none West of New York, with the Florida copy, identified as Nr 51 in the “Familyen bibliyotek” series, inaccurately dated 1900 (The “Familyen bibliyotek” serices did not come into existence until 1909) . Lacks original wrappers, otherwise complete. Paper somewhat brittle, old tape repairs, a few margin chips with no loss of text. Good Condition Thus. Rare and important. (yid-26-9) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of (Xt) Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916 : MENSHEN. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, collectables, rare books, fine bindings and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |