Auction 24
Auction No. 24. Old and Rare Books and Prints. Russian Books.
By Kabinet Germany
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Dec 5, 2023
Kabinett Auktionshaus, Carmerstr. 11, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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LOT 82:
45, [3] pp., ill. 26.1×19.2 cm.
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Sold for: €300
Start price:
€
100
Estimated price :
€200 - €300
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45, [3] pp., ill. 26.1×19.2 cm.
In publisher's illustrated cover. In good condition, minor dirt on cover. The block is clean and in excellent condition.
Lev (Leib) Moiseevich Kwitko (1890 -1952) - Soviet Jewish (Yiddish) poet. Born in the town of Goloskov, Podolsk province. He began writing poetry at the age of 12.
From mid-1921 he lived and published in Berlin, then in Hamburg, where he worked at the Soviet trade mission and published in both Soviet and Western periodicals. Here he joined the Communist Party and conducted communist agitation among the workers. In 1925, fearing arrest, he moved to the USSR. He published many books for children (17 books were published in 1928 alone).
Since 1936 he lived in Moscow on the street. Maroseyka, 13, apt. 9. In 1939 he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
During the war years he was a member of the presidium of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and the editorial board of the JAC newspaper “Einikait” (“Unity”)
He was arrested among the leading figures of the JAC on January 23, 1949. On July 18, 1952, he was accused by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of treason, sentenced to capital punishment, and executed by firing squad on August 12, 1952. Burial place: Moscow, Donskoye Cemetery. Posthumously rehabilitated by the USSR All-Russian Military Commission on November 22, 1955.
