Shtrom - Three Issues - Moscow, 1922-1923 - Covers Designed by Marc Chagall

Shtrom [Stream], Khoidesh Heften. Issues 1, 3 and 4. Moscow, 1922-1923. Yiddish.
Three issues of the journal "Shtrom". Cover design by Marc Chagall.
"Shtrom" was a literary-artistic journal founded by the literary branch of the "Kultur-Lige", which moved in the early 1920s from Kiev to Moscow. The journal was published in the years 1922-1924; in all, five booklets appeared. In its early stages the journal attempted to unite the modernist Yiddish writers throughout the world and not just in Russia. In that period the journal was not an official mouthpiece, nevertheless it was the first attempt to create a literary Soviet press in Yiddish. The last issues of the journal were published under the strict supervision of the Communist leadership.
Issue no. 1: 80 pp, 26 cm. Detached cover and leaves. Tears to margins of some leaves. Some inscriptions in pencil. Issue no. 3: 84 pp, 25.5 cm. Cover slightly loose. Tears to leaf margins. Issue no. 4: 95, [5] pp, 25 cm. Cover partly detached, with tears and stains.