Itzik Manger - Two early photographs

Itzik Manger - Two early photographs

Two unknown photographs of Yiddish poet, playwright and author - Isaac Manger. The 1920s.

Isaac (Itzik) Manger [1901-1969] Yiddish poet, playwright and author. Born in Czernowitz to a father who was a drinker tailor. During World War I, he fled to Romania, where in 1918 he began to write poetry in Yiddish, and soon approached the high level of Yiddish-speaking intelligence such as Jacob Sternberg, and began writing in the Yiddish daily press in Czernowitz. Manger Conducted lectures and became a charismatic and affectionate figure who swept her audience. In 1929, Manger published his first book of poems, 'Staren Ofin Dach'  (Stars on the Roof), in Bucharest, in which he mixed innovative and old literary traditions. In that year he started to publish his small journal, "Lone Words." By the 1930s, Manger was already well-known among the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and the United States, and his work peaked in those years. In particular, he published as an artist in the old and new combination of his works using anachronistic use of contemporary German culture with well-known biblical figures and so on. During the Holocaust he fled to London, and then in 1951 settled in New York. At the end of 1968 he immigrated to Eretz Israel. Prior to his death, a literary award was established in his name: the Itzik Manger Prize for literary works in Yiddish, distributed from 1969 to 1999. The Itzik Manger archive is deposited in the Archives Department of the National Library of Jerusalem.

Same size: 14x9 cm. On one of the photographs is the photographer's stamp Freidki, and a dedication from 1925. In one of the photographs are cracks. Overall good  condition.