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Hertz Grosbard, Jewish Polish Reciter, Orig. Autograph in Yiddish on His Woodcut Portrait by Artur Kolnik, 1931, PC size. - Hertz Grosbard, Jewish Polish Reciter, Orig. Autograph in Yiddish on His Woodcut Portrait by Artur Kolnik, 1931, PC size. Signed in the plate by Artur Kolnik in Hebrew Good condition, very light foxing. Hertz Grosbard (1892−1994) was a Polish reciter. He performed recitations of Yiddish literature during the 20th century. He was born in Łódź to a religious family. In 1919 he was an actor member of the Vilna Troupe of Warsaw (Yiddish Theater Ensemble). During the 1920s he began performing what came to be known as his ”word concerts” to great critical acclaim. During the ”word concerts” he recited classics of Yiddish literature such as works of Itsik Manger and Scholem Aleichem.[1] He was very popular and performed extensively both in Europe, the Americas, and in Israel, e.g. in Vilnius he performed more than 50 times between 1928 and 1940.[2] Ten albums with selections of his word concerts were issued in the 1950s and 1960s.[3] He held his last concert in 1992 in Holon, Israel, in conjunction with his 100th birthday.[1] Arthur Kolnik (born May 4, 1890 in Stanisławów, Austria-Hungary, now Ivano-Frankivsk; died 1972 in Paris) was a Galician-Jewish illustrator and painter. According to Nadine Nieszawer, he is associated with the first modern École de Paris.[1][2] His paintings and expressionist woodcuts depict the figures and images of Eastern European Jewry, the world of the shtetl wiped out by the Holocaust.