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A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT YIDDISH CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH POEMS BY ABRAHAM REISEN (1876 - 1953). REISEN'S POETRY IS ACCOMPANIED BY COLOR MODERNIST ILLUSTRATIONS BY VARIOUS JEWISH ARTISTS. Abraham Reisen was a "Yiddish Poet, short- story writer, playwright and editor. He was born in Russia, travelled to Minsk, Warsaw, Krakow, and Berlin - until he came to New York in 1914.His poetry, "while having an understated romanticism and melancholy irony, a proportion of his work criticizes the poverty and social problems of the day" (Dan Wyman, 2012).Each page has a poem framed by modernist color illustrations (usually one or two colors) by various artists in brown, yellow, orange-red, green and black.The pictorial boards of the cover have age-darkened light brown stains but the illustration "comes through". The back cover also has light brown stains - especially at the bottom edge - this may be a water stain, edges and corners rubbed, green spine is in good shape. Blank eps are clean but paper at…
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50 LIDER (50 POEMS AND SONGS IN YIDDISH) [50 50}: A gift to the children in the Yiddish schools in honor of A. Reisen's 50th birthday
by REISEN, ABRAHAM {Avrom Reyzan).
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