Lot 229
"Das Leben" Journal – Three Issues – St. Petersburg, 1905
Das leben, a manatlikher zhurnal far literatur, visenshaft aun gezelshaftlikhe fragen [Life, a monthly magazine for literature, science and social issues], three issues edited by Saul Ginzburg and Alexander Rappaport. St. Petersburg: Freind Press, 1905. Yiddish.
Issues of May, July and August-September (a double issue) 1905 of the "Das Leben" journal, the literary supplement of the first Yiddish daily to be published in the Russian Empire – "Der Freind". The issues contain notes, articles, stories, poems and translations by the best Jewish writers of the period, including: Shalom Asch, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Micha Josef Berdyczewski, Rachel Feigenberg, S. An-Sky, Bernard Gorin, Yehoash (nom de plume of Solomon Blumgarten), and others.
The journal (of which only nine issues were published) was published and edited by the well-known historian, journalist, literary critic and activist Saul Ginzburg (1866-1940).
May issue: 128 pp.; July issue: 128 pp.; August-September issue: 253, [4] pp. Approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Some closed and open tears (tears to title pages mended with tape). Stamps to one issue. Bound in matching leather bindings, without the covers.
