Lot 636
"Salt in the Eyes" – Moscow, 1944 – Anti-Hitler Booklet Published During the War
Gutyanski, B. [Binyamin]. Zalts in Di Oygn [Salt in the Eyes]. Illustrations A. Hafter. Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. Yiddish.
Twenty-two rhymed stories ridiculing and mocking Hitler and Nazi Germany, illustrated with numerous harsh and humorous anti-Hitler illustrations. The author, Gutyanski (1905-1949), was a Yiddish poet, translator and editor. He composed poems for children and rhymed stories and short sketches for papers in Yiddish and Russian. Gutyanski joined the Red Army in 1942, at first as a writer of anti-Nazi propaganda and later as a soldier. He also translated Don Quixote into Yiddish. Gutyanski disappeared in 1948; he was probably arrested, tortured in a Soviet Prison and executed with other Jewish creators in 1949.
38, [2] pp, 16 cm. Very good condition.
