chone gottesfeld (5 Ergebnisse)

Unknown. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardbound. Zustand: Good. Octavo, faded and worn green cloth with gold lettering, 270 pp., b/w drawings by Lola Text is in Yiddish. OCLC Number: 42036451. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, 270 pp., b/w drawings. Text is in Yiddish. OCLC Number: 42036451. Illustrated by Lola.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, 320 pp., b/w drawings by Lola. Text is in Yiddish. .

First edition. Original printed modernist boards, 8vo, 199 pages, plus 2 unnumbered leaves of plates, includes illustrations and portraits. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as ?My Travels in Galitzia.? Biography and travel memoir by Chone Gottesfeld with an introduction by Abraham Cahan, from just prior to the Holocaust, published by a Galitzianer Landsmanshaft. Gottesfeld was born in Skala, Galitzia, and then ?From 1908 he was living in the United States. Initially he worked in a sweatshop and in a newspaper office. He lived in Cleveland and Philadelphia. He settled in New York at the end of 1910, where together with Uzial Flayshman, he ran a candy store. He later worked as a telephone boy for the Forverts (Forward). In 1914, Abraham Kahan [sic, Cahan]brought him onto the editorial staff of the newspaper, and there he worked for the remainder of his career? In 1953 he was the president of the Jewish Writers? Association in New York. He began writing humorous sketches under the pen name Tuvye Shmeykhl for Yankev Fefer?s Vokhnblat (Weekly newspaper), Kundes (Prankster), and for provincial Yiddish newspapers. He worked on the editorial board of Idishe velt (Jewish world) in Philadelphia and was the author of a number of plays which were staged in the Yiddish theater around the world. Over a number of years, Gotesfeld [Gottesfeld] was the news editor for the Forverts, and for many years he edited ?Dos shtif-kind? (The stepchild), the humor page of the Forverts. He composed a series of humorous pieces for the newspaper, and therewith acquired considerable popularity among its readership? (Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Biography. Jews. Gottesfeld, Chone, 1890-1964. Europe -- Galicia. OCLC: 7400961 Ex-library with usual markings but otherwise a very good copy. Attractive, Good Condition. (YID-48-59-GGEMXL-?cc).