Auction 021
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Jan 14, 2020
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LOT 339:
"Mentshn Funim Dor" – A Rare Book of Stories and Poems by Elimelech Shtayer – Lodz, 1937 – Author's Dedication
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Mentshn Funim Dor [People of the Generation], by Elimelech Shtayer. Lodz: "Beit Ya'akov", [1937] Yiddish.
"People of the Generation", short stories, poems and songs by Elimelech Shtayer. On the upper part of the title page, a handwritten dedication (trimmed) signed by the author.
Elimelech Shtayer, publicist, writer and poet, was born to a Hassidic family in Tylicz, Poland, in 1907. In his youth, he studied at "Torat Chaim," the yeshiva of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau in Slovakia and later he moved to Warsaw. He was a member of Agudat Yisrael and served as the secretary of the editorial staff of "Darkeinu," the Agudat Yisrael weekly. His journalistic and literary works were published in "Das Yudishe Tagblat," the journal of Poalei Agudat Yisrael and in other journals (under the pseudonym "Elitzur HaSofer"). During the Holocaust, he lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he and his wife established a soup kitchen for children, which also secretly served to teach Torah and Judaism. He perished in Dębica or the Pustków concentration camp in 1942-43.
116, [1] pp, 21.5cm. Good condition. Stains and water stains. Pinholes in the margins of the leaves. The title page and front endpaper are detached. Ink stamp on the front endpaper and an erased ink stamp on the title page. Tears reinforced with paper to one of the leaves. The book was re-bound in a cardboard binding; on which the original (trimmed) front cover is laid down. The original back cover is missing. The title page has been trimmed, slightly affecting the dedication.
Rare. Not in NLI or OCLC. We could find no mention online of other copies of this book.
"People of the Generation", short stories, poems and songs by Elimelech Shtayer. On the upper part of the title page, a handwritten dedication (trimmed) signed by the author.
Elimelech Shtayer, publicist, writer and poet, was born to a Hassidic family in Tylicz, Poland, in 1907. In his youth, he studied at "Torat Chaim," the yeshiva of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau in Slovakia and later he moved to Warsaw. He was a member of Agudat Yisrael and served as the secretary of the editorial staff of "Darkeinu," the Agudat Yisrael weekly. His journalistic and literary works were published in "Das Yudishe Tagblat," the journal of Poalei Agudat Yisrael and in other journals (under the pseudonym "Elitzur HaSofer"). During the Holocaust, he lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he and his wife established a soup kitchen for children, which also secretly served to teach Torah and Judaism. He perished in Dębica or the Pustków concentration camp in 1942-43.
116, [1] pp, 21.5cm. Good condition. Stains and water stains. Pinholes in the margins of the leaves. The title page and front endpaper are detached. Ink stamp on the front endpaper and an erased ink stamp on the title page. Tears reinforced with paper to one of the leaves. The book was re-bound in a cardboard binding; on which the original (trimmed) front cover is laid down. The original back cover is missing. The title page has been trimmed, slightly affecting the dedication.
Rare. Not in NLI or OCLC. We could find no mention online of other copies of this book.
