Along the Years: Poems, 1911-1937

London: Robert Anscombe & Company, Ltd, 1937. Cloth. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, no. 215 of 750. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis portrait of Leftwich. Original blue cloth, paper title label to spine, lettered in blue (loss, incl. to printed letters). Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Edgewear, bruising to extremities. PO pencil notes to ffep, marks to rear endpaper, beneath signed and numbered details on the limitation page, Leftwich has written in blue ink: "For Ruth Frankel/ April 4th. 1953." Very occasional underlining. Else, clean. Very good One of the founding 'Whitechapel Boys' (and its key chronicler), Joseph Leftwich (1892�1983; born Joseph Lefkowitz) was a Jewish critic, poet, translator and expert on Jewish and Yiddish literature. He translated works by Sholem Asch, Max Brod, I. L. Peretz, Zalman Schneour, Zalman Shazar and Stefan Zweig. In response to the rise of the Nazis Leftwich wrote What Will Happen to the Jews? (1936) and, in collaboration with A. K. Chesterton, The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism (1948). He also published studies of Theodor Herzl (1942) and Israel Zangwill (1957), poems about whom who feature in Leftwich's collection.