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IKH BIN GEVEN A PARTIZAN (DI GRINE LEGENDE). Complete in 2 volumes by Kaczerginski, S - 1952

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IKH BIN GEVEN A PARTIZAN (DI GRINE LEGENDE). Complete in 2 volumes

by Kaczerginski, S

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Buenos Aires: Angel Gallardo. 1952. Hardcover. holo7, wiv0512, yid1, ee2 . Good Solid condition.; 8vo; 387 pages; In Yiddish. Not in Robinson & Friedman nor Wolff. Jewish partisan's memoirs of resistance against the Nazis in Poland. Illustrated with many photographs throughout. Kaczerginski (1908–1954) was a “Yiddish writer and cultural activist. Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke (Pol., Szmerke) Kaczerginski lost both his parents during World War I. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term. In the 1930s, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote short stories with a radical bent and was a correspondent and reporter for literary publications, including the semilegal leftist press in Poland and the New York Communist daily Morgn-frayhayt. Kaczerginski played a key role in shaping the writers’ and artists’ group Yung-Vilne; he organized its evening events and was the de facto publisher of its three miscellanies between 1934 and 1936. During the period of Soviet control over Lithuania in 1940–1941, he was even more active in the field of Yiddish culture, but at the same time experienced his first disappointments with the attitude of the Soviet regime toward Jewish culture. During the first period of Nazi occupation, Kaczerginski wandered through villages and towns posing as a deaf mute; after many difficulties, he ended up in the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski was very involved in the ghetto’s cultural activities. As a leader of its youth club, he wrote its Yugnt-himen (Youth Hymn), a song that immediately became popular. In 1943, he wrote the song “Shtiler, shtiler” in memory of the mass murders committed at Ponar. Set to music that Aleksander Volkoviski (later known as Aleksander Tamir) had submitted to a contest organized by the ghetto, the song was first heard at an evening performance there and over the years became one of the best-known songs of the Holocaust. With Avrom Sutzkever and others, Kaczerginski became part of a group of forced laborers whom the Germans designated to sort Jewish cultural treasures at YIVO and other locations. Known as the Papir-brigade (Paper Brigade), the group’s members risked their lives to hide the most significant items, smuggling them back into the ghetto or entrusting them to non-Jewish acquaintances. Kaczerginski was a member of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisans Organization; FPO), and, since YIVO’s building was located outside the ghetto walls, he took part in smuggling weapons into the ghetto. In September 1943, Kaczerginski, along with Avrom and Freydke Sutzkever and other members of the FPO, escaped from the Vilna ghetto as part of an organized group of fighters just before its liquidation. They joined a Soviet partisan unit in the Naroch Forests, where Kaczerginski fought as a partisan until liberation in July 1944. Kaczerginski’s books describe the destruction of Vilna, the partisan struggle, and his own experiences during the Holocaust period: Khurbn Vilne (The Destruction of Vilna; 1947), Partizaner geyen (Partisans on the Move; 1947), and Ikh bin geven a partizan (I Was a Partisan; 1952)” (YIVO, 2010). Spine repaired on Volume one, pages tanned. Good condition. (HOLO2-87-2) .
  • Bookseller Dan Wyman Books US (US)
  • Illustrator Many Photos
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Angel Gallardo
  • Place of Publication Buenos Aires
  • Date Published 1952
  • Keywords holo7, wiv0512, yid1, ee2, Holocaust Judaica, Lodz Ghetto Poland, Antisemitism Nazism, Jewish Resistance, Jews Jewish History, Warsaw Ghetto, Germany Yiddish SS, Photography Hitler, WW II World War II

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IKH BIN GEVEN A PARTIZAN (DI GRINE LEGENDE). 2 Volumes in one book. [AUTHOR INSCRBED]

IKH BIN GEVEN A PARTIZAN (DI GRINE LEGENDE). 2 Volumes in one book. [AUTHOR INSCRBED]

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Buenos Aires: Angel Gallardo, 1952. Hardcover. Illustrated by Many Photos. Good Solid condition.; 8vo; 387 pages; In Yiddish. Not in Robinson & Friedman nor Wolff. Jewish partisan's memoirs of resistance against the Nazis in Poland. Illustrated with many photographs throughout. Inscribed by Kaczerginski in year of publication. Kaczerginski (1908-1954) was a "Yiddish writer and cultural activist. Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city's Talmud Torah, Shmerke (Pol., Szmerke) Kaczerginski lost both his parents during World War I. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term. In the 1930s, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote short stories with a radical bent and was a correspondent and reporter for literary publications, including the semilegal leftist press in Poland and the New York Communist daily Morgn-frayhayt. Kaczerginski played a key role in shaping the writers' and artists'… Read More
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