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Itzik Manger. Lid un Balade (Song and Balade), Yiddish, illust. by Ch. Gross and I.Schor, 1976, NY - Itzik Manger. Lid un Balade (Song and Balade), Yiddish, illust. by Ch. Gross and I. Schor, 1976, NY New York: Itzik Manger Komitet, 1976. 498 pp., title page illustration by Chaim Gross and wood cut illustrations by Ilya Schor. Hard cover, 23 x 15 cm., Condition: some wear, staining and rubbing to cover; light damage top and bottom of spine; yellow paper; couple of minor stains Weight: 860 gr. Itzik Manger (30 May 1901, Czernowitz, then Austrian-Hungarian Empire – 21 February 1969, Gedera, Israel; Yiddish: איציק מאַנגער) was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor' of the written word. A Jew from Bucovina, Manger lived in Romania, Poland, France, England, the US (New York), Canada (Montreal) and finally Israel. Chaim Gross (March 17, 1902 – May 5, 1991) was an American sculptor and educator of Ukrainian Jewish origin. Gross studied and taught at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City’s Lower Manhattan. He summered for many years in Provincetown. Ilya Schor (April 16, 1904 . Itzik Manger. Lid un Balade (Song and Balade), Yiddish, illust. by Ch. Gross and I. Schor, 1976, NY New York: Itzik Manger Komitet, 1976. 498 pp., title page illustration by Chaim Gross and wood cut illustrations by Ilya Schor. Hard cover, 23 x 15 cm., Condition: some wear, staining and rubbing to cover; light damage top and bottom of spine; yellow paper; couple of minor stains Weight: 860 gr. Itzik Manger (30 May 1901, Czernowitz, then Austrian-Hungarian Empire – 21 February 1969, Gedera, Israel; Yiddish: איציק מאַנגער) was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor' of the written word. A Jew from Bucovina, Manger lived in Romania, Poland, France, England, the US (New York), Canada (Montreal) and finally Israel. Chaim Gross (March 17, 1902 – May 5, 1991) was an American sculptor and educator of Ukrainian Jewish origin. Gross studied and taught at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City’s Lower Manhattan. He summered for many years in Provincetown. Ilya Schor (April 16, 1904 – June 7, 1961) was an artist, a painter, jeweler, engraver, sculptor, and renowned artist of Judaica