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Samuel Burshtyn, Autograph on his Yiddish book: Durkh blits un volkns (Through lightning and clouds), illust., 1943, NY - Samuel Burshtyn, Autograph on his Yiddish book: Durkh blits un volkns (Through lightning and clouds), illust., 1943, NY Autograph / dedicationof the author in Yiddish on front endpaper, 1943 NY, 64 pp., illust by portrait of Samuel Burshtyn , drawing of the artist Malamud Hard calico cover, size: 22.5 x 15 cm. Condition: light wear to cover, light browning to endpapers; yellow paper Weight: 245 gr. Samuel Burshtyn was born in Bentshin, Kielce district, Poland, until age twenty-two he lived in Kielce, later in Lodz and Warsaw. In 1906 he departed for London, and in 1907 he was living in Paris. He emigrated to the United States around 1909. In 1911 he returned to Europe, only to return to America in 1913. He was known by the ironical name of “poet emperor”