Oyfgang – Youth Journal for Sh'erit ha-Pletah in Poland – Warsaw, 1947-1949 – 11 Issues

Oyfgang – Youth Journal for Sh'erit ha-Pletah in Poland – Warsaw, 1947-1949 – 11 Issues
Eleven issues of the journal "Oyfgang" [Sunrise]. Warsaw, 1947-1949. Yiddish and some Polish.
Eleven issues of Oyfgang - the Organ of the Youth Dept. of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (Centraler Komitet fun di yidn in Poyln), the organization that represented Polish Jews in the second half of the 1940s.
• issue no. 4, 1947. • Issues 7-8 and issues 9-12, 1948. • Issues no. 1-4 and issues no. 5-6, 1949.
The issues cover various matters: the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution; the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust; the establishment of the monument in memory of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto; the War of Independence in Palestine; matters of the Jewish community in Poland and world Jewry; local and global politics; Jewish culture; sports and more. Each issue also contains poems, riddles and jokes.
The issues include photographs and illustrations. Impressive color illustrations on front covers, including illustrations in the style of Social Realism by S. Fogelman and by communist artist Lea Grundig.
11 issues, approx. 34 cm. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition.