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Title

Chaje Alter poetry book :

Authors

• Alter, Chaje
  אלטער, חיה רחל

Other related names

• Goldman, Yosef, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 745
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979448511303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1460735373

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew, with Song of Solomon translated to Yiddish (f. 1r-12r)

Origin

Date

1918?-1940?

Place

Kaunas, Lithuania

Summary

Student poetry book of Chaje Alter, reflecting a modern Zionistic curriculum; the table of contents (f. 1v-2r) precedes the text, which opens with the Song of Solomon translated (on opposing folio side) to Yiddish, and continuing with Hebrew poetry (with author citation following each poem; authors such as Juda Löb Bensew (f. 13v), Ze'ev Yavetz (f. 17r), Aharon Rosenfeld (f. 18r), Judah Leib Gordon (f. 22r), Sara Schapira (f. 27r), Aharon Eliyahu Pompeiansky (f. 28r), Salomon Mandelkern (f. 32r), Menahem Mendel Dolitzky (f. 32v), Avraham Eliyahu Sandler (f. 41r), Yonah Gerstein (f. 43r), Abraham Goldfaden (f. 48v), Isaac Leib Peretz (f. 50v), and Avraham Dov Lifshitz (f. 55r). Printed sources include the periodicals Ha-melits and Ha-shaḥar; written in a cursive script.

Notes

• Pasted beer labels from Kaunas distillers pasted to front folio.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

60 leaves : 23 x 18 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).
   
• Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore, 2024.
   

Subjects topical

• Hebrew poetry--20th century
• Women poets
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Lithuania--Kaunas--20th century--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Yiddish--Lithuania--Kaunas--20th century--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Poetry
• bottle labels (paper labels)

Licenses

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