markish peretz davidovich (3 Ergebnisse)

8vo, pp. 319, [1], title-page printed in blue and black; a very good copy in the original buff printed stiff paper wrappers.First edition, a collection of late poems by the pre-eminent Soviet Yiddish poet and novelist Peretz Markish; the translations are by several hands. The poems come under the headings 'The invincible', 'In defiance of death', 'The last pale', 'Lyrics' and 'The offensive', and there are renditions of portions of the longer poems 'The Thistle' (1935), and 'Ripening' (1939). Most of the works deal with national or Jewish themes, particularly those written in the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland including the sequence 'Autumn 1941'. Language: Russian.

Small 8vo, pp. 256, [7], + errata slip; engraved head- and tailpiece illustrations; a very good copy in the original cloth.First edition in Russian of Markish's epic poem Brider (Brothers, Kiev, 1929), an optimistic work glorifying the Communist regime. The editor is Grigory Petnikov, and the translators D. Brodsky, V. Bugaevsky, S. Lipkin, Maria Petrova, A. Tarkovsky, N. Ushakov, A. Shteinberg and A. Shpirt.OCLC finds copies at Berkeley, Harvard, and Notre Dame only. Language: Russian.

Small 8vo, pp. 141, [3], photographic portrait frontispiece; small light stain to lower outer corner, but generally a very good copy in the original cloth, with the original printed dustjacket (restored with some loss); in a folding cloth box.First edition in Russian of the first book by the Soviet Yiddish poet and novelist Peretz Markish (1895-1952), a collection of poems, Shveln (Threshold, Kiev, 1919) which established his reputation as one of the most important Yiddish poets of his time. A supporter of Soviet Russia and the Russian Revolution of 1917, Markish was awarded the order of Lenin in 1939, but he was arrested in 1948, accused of Jewish nationalism, and in 1952 he was shot along with many of his fellow writers. His poetry was rehabilitated in the 1950s when collections of his poems were published in both Russian and Ukrainian translation. Anna Akhmatova was among those writers who later translated his poetry; the translators of the present collection are P. Antopolsky, E. Bagritsky, D. Brodsky, O. Kolychev, and L. Penkovsky.Extremely rare: OCLC records a single copy, at the University of Haifa; not found in any of the bibliographies consulted. Language: Russian.