The Exhibit: ~ Soviet Union ~


Fun tsar un tsorn	Hekher fun der erd	Di yunge Yidishe poezye in Rusland	Zalbafert


Mut	In fayerdikn doyer	10 lider	Almanakh Vuspp


First National Convention of Yiddish Writers	Di kup'e	Inmitn veg	Shveln


Nakht-royb	Perets Markish der dikhter un prozaiker	Shirim / Moshe Kulbak	Naye lider / Moshe Kulbak


Poemen un lider / Moshe Kulbak	Elyes toyt	Geklibene verk / I. Fefer	Vegn zikh un azoyne vi ikh


A shteyn tsu a shteyn	Proste trit	Gefunene funken	Af der erd


Lider un poemes / Izi Kharik	Grin groz	Gerangl	Ongrayf af vistes


Royte blitn	Valger-shteyner	Geklibene lider / David Hofstein	Bay vegn


Lider / Shmuel Halkin	A zun mit a regn	Afsnay

The Fishstein Collection is rich in rare, often ephemeral material stemming from pre-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union between the World Wars. The great literary figures, including the major poets, were severely harassed during the regime of Stalin. Yiddish literature suffered a devastating blow in 1952, when many Yiddish writers and other cultural figures were executed.

Books and booklets published in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1948 are among the rarest in modern Yiddish literature. Press runs were small, few copies found their way to the West, and fewer have survived. The Fishstein Collection has many such titles, many of them in superb condition.

Home