Autograph Letter Signed by David Vogel – Merano (Italy), 1925 – "I was Born a Gypsy and a Gypsy I shall Die"

A letter handwritten and signed by David Vogel. Merano (Italy), February 28, 1925.
The letter was sent to the poet's close friend, Shimon Polack, when Vogel was staying at a convalescent home for Jews, Asyl für Mittellose Juden, and it expresses Vogel's revulsion from life in Vienna and his increasing desire to to embark on a journey: "During the last years I have been sitting in Vienna like a hen on its eggs, hungering the same old hunger, utterly disgraced, and suffering the same troubles and agony, which are boring to disgust […] I simply need a change of air and environment from time to time for if not, I rot. I must see the whole world – it is needed for creation!" (Hebrew).
An interesting passage in the letter refers to Vogel's first wife, Ilka, and her tuberculosis: "What to do? Her bad luck tied her to a klutz like me, who suffers hunger and deprivation all his days. She, the poor girl, needs a wealthy man […] her lung disease is a matter for the wealthy – beggars do not get cured" (Hebrew).
Vogel ends the letter with a poetic greeting: "I want to hear from you soon, that you are satisfied with your life, that you are happy, at least you! Such a thing is impossible for me - I was born a Gypsy and a Gypsy I shall die" (Vogel spent most of his life wandering penniless).
[3] pp (written on a leaf folded in half), approx. 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Fold lines. Creases. Closed and open tears along edges and fold lines, most of them reinforced with tape. Smal penned notation on top of the first page.
See "Ahava ad Kelot", David Vogel and Ada Nadler-Vogel. Published by Kinneret-Zemorah Dvir, 2019. Hebrew.
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