Auction 1
Israeliana, Judaica, Books, Signed Books, Art Books, Wine, Pictures
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Mar 25, 2018
Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 21:
Yitzhak Lamdan: "Masada: A Historical Epic״ Drawings: Nahum Gutman
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Yitzhak Lamdan: "Masada: A Historical Epic״ Drawings: Nahum Gutman
In 1927, Yitzhak Lamdan published a Hebrew epic poem called "Masada: A Historical Epic" about the Jewish struggle for survival in a world full of enemies, in which Masada, as a symbol for the Land of Israel and the Zionist enterprise, was seen as a refuge, but also as a potential ultimate trap; the poem was hugely influential, but the latter aspect was left out in its mainstream Zionist reception and interpretation. According to literary scholar and cultural historian David G. Roskies, Lamdan's poem even inspired the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
80 pages
24.5 x 34.5 cm
490 grams
Fair condition, spine damaged
