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Menachem Ribalow. Sefer HaYovel “Ha-Doar”: 5th Anniversary of the newspaper. Illust., NY, 1927, Hebrew - Menachem Ribalow Sefer HaYovel “Ha-Doar”: 5th Anniversary of the newspaper. Illust., NY, 1927, Hebrew New York, 1927., 352, XVI pp. -paginated by letters, 8 plates with portraits of authors of “Ha-Doar”, 25 x 19 cm. soft cover Condition: cover worn, stained, chipped; spine damaged; corners shabby; foxing stains to most of pages and to edges; some worm holes to second half of the book Weight: 700 gr. RIBALOW, MENACHEM (1895–1953), U.S. Hebrew editor and essayist. Born in Chudnov, Volhynia (Russia), Ribalow received a yeshivah education and also studied at the University of Moscow; he immigrated to the United States in 1921. Two years later he was appointed editor of the Hebrew weekly Hadoar. For 30 years he wrote his weekly editorials under his pseudonym, M. Shoshani, and hundreds of essays which appeared in various periodicals and, eventually, were collected in five volumes. As an essayist he concentrated on literary criticism, especially of Hebrew poetry. Though his love for Hebrew sometimes led him to hyperbolic evaluations of Hebrew writers, he was a perceptive critic. Many Hebrew authors in the U.S. made their debut under his guidance.