Bidspirit auction | Eliezer Steinbarg, Mesholim/ Fables. 12

Eliezer Steinbarg, Mesholim/ Fables. 12 woodcuts A. Kolnik, 1969, in Yiddish Y.L. Perets Farlag, Tel Aviv, 1969., 340 pp., twelve wood-cut illustrations by Artur Kolnik. Text is in Yiddish. Hard cover, 23 x 15 cm. Condition: Cover and spine in bad condition – damped, stained, detached; first pages damaged – damped, damping and mold near spine to all pages; 1st woodcut damaged the others in fair condition Weight: 765 gr. Eliezer Steinbarg (2 March 1880 – 27 March 1932) was a Yiddish-school teacher and Yiddish poetic fabulist. He was born in Lipcani, Bessarabia and became a teacher in Bessarabia and Volhynia. In 1902 he became a poet in Yiddish, but did not have his works published until after his death.[2] He taught Yiddish and Hebrew, wrote and directed children's plays and was an editor of Kultur, a Yiddish arts journal. He became a notable figure in the Yiddish culture of Romania, and his works were widely recited.[3] His first published work Mesholim, a book of fables, did not appear until shortly after his death, when it became a bestseller.[4] Selected works of Eliezer Steinbarg can be found in the bilingual The Jewish Book of Fables (2003), translated by Curt Leviant.[3] He lies buried in the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi. The Eliezer Steinbarg Jewish Cultural Society in Chernivtsi is named after him. Arthur Kolnik was a Polish painter born May 4, 1890 in Stanisławow (Stanisławow Voivodeship) in Galicia, died June 6, 19711 in Paris, friend of Reuven Rubin and the poet Itsik Manguer.