GRADE, CHAIM, 1910 1982 (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Original Cloth. 8vo. 179, [9] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Yiddish with vocalized Hebrew translation on opposite pages. 'On My Way to You', poems by Chaim Grade. "The volume Af mayn veg tsu dir (On My Way to You; 1969) offers redemptive impressions of the Israeli landscape. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. Hebrew translation by Yosef Ahai; nine pages of ink drawing illustrations by the acclaimed artist Alexander Bogen, a fellow traveler with Chaim Grade in Yung Vilne and a partisan during the holocaust period. Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Hebrew poetry - Translations from Yiddish. Ex-library with usual marks but little wear, Very good condition thus . (YID-21-46).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. In Yiddish. 473 pages. 24 cm. 1st edition. Original Publisher's Cloth. 473 pages, 235 x 165 mm. Illustrated title page. Ex library with de-accession stamp of the now defunct Simon Hevesi Jewish Heritage Library. Inner back hinge slightly exposed. Grade, a Yiddish poet and novelist, was born in Vilnius (Vilna). After his father's early death, his mother ran a market stall. He received a traditional education, attended several yeshivot, including seven years under the famed scholar-rabbi, the Hazon Ish. He become attracted to the Musar movement, made his literary debut in Dos Vort, became a member of Yung Vilne, where he was soon very prominent. The group sought both to synthesize secular Yiddish culture with new currents in world literature, and to bring the impoverished Jewish home into contact with the progressive forces of contemporary society. Grade?s poems appeared in leading Yiddish periodicals in Europe and the United States. His first book, YO, was acclaimed by critics for its stylistic elegance and its affirmation of faith in a synthesis of traditional and modern currents. His long poem "Ezekiel" demonstrated his understanding of the tragic nature of human and especially Jewish existence. Extremely important in his early period was Geveyn fun Doyres, which treats the issues of Jewish identity and national history. His long poem "Musernikes", describes the spiritual struggles of yeshivah students torn between the Musar traditions and worldly temptations. During World War II, Grade found refuge in Russia and continued to write. His next collection of poems, HAS, appearing in Moscow. After the war he dedicated a series of poems, "Mit Dayn Guf af mayne Hent" to his wife who perished in the Holocaust. In his volumes Doyres, Pleytim, and Shayn fun Farloshene Shtern, he mourned the victims of the Holocaust and describes the survivors. With this attempt at confronting the national Jewish tragedy, Grade became in a sense the national Jewish poet, as Bialik had been in his day. Grade's return to Vilna in 1946 was traumatic, as described in "Af di Khurbes", and he left for Poland, but after the Kielce pogrom, in which church going Poles murdered the few Jews who returned "home" after surviving the death camps, he moved to Paris, where he helped revive Yiddish cultural life among the surviving Jews and led a Yiddish literary club. Grade was one of the rare interpreters of yeshivah life in modern Yiddish literature, recreating the daily life of the yeshivah student. He then wrote Tsemach Atlas, and following that novel, he published two more collections of stories: Di Kloyz un di Gas and Der Shtumer Minyan, which again attempted to reconstruct the atmosphere of prewar Vilna. Grade's postwar poetry expressed, above all, the traumatic experience of the Holocaust and focused on the question of his own survival, while his prose works continued to reconstruct Jewish Vilna and the mind and piety of Lithuanian Jewry. From the beginning, his works possessed a distinct philosophical dimension.

Paper Wrappers. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 26 pages.152 x 115 mm. Grade, a Yiddish poet and novelist, was born in Vilnius (Vilna). After his father's early death, his mother ran a market stall. He received a traditional education, attended several yeshivot, including seven years under the famed scholar-rabbi, the Hazon Ish. He was attracted to the Musar movement, made his literary debut in Dos Vort, became a member of Yung Vilne, where he was soon very prominent. The group sought both to synthesize secular Yiddish culture with new currents in world literature, and to bring the impoverished Jewish home into contact with the progressive forces of contemporary society. Grade?s poems appeared in leading Yiddish periodicals in Europe and the United States. His first book, YO, was acclaimed by critics for its stylistic elegance and its affirmation of faith in a synthesis of traditional and modern currents. His long poem "Ezekiel" demonstrated his understanding of the tragic nature of human and especially Jewish existence. Extremely important in his early period was Geveyn fun Doyres, which treats the issues of Jewish identity and national history. His long poem "Musernikes", describes the spiritual struggles of yeshivah students torn between the Musar traditions and worldly temptations. During World War II, Grade found refuge in Russia and continued to write. His next collection of poems, HAS, appearing in Moscow. After the war he dedicated a series of poems, "Mit Dayn Guf af mayne Hent" to his wife who perished in the Holocaust. In his volumes Doyres, Pleytim, and Shayn fun Farloshene Shtern, he mourned the victims of the Holocaust and describes the survivors. With this attempt at confronting the national Jewish tragedy, Grade became in a sense the national Jewish poet, as Bialik had been in his day. Grade's return to Vilna in 1946 was traumatic, as described in "Af di Khurbes", and he left for Poland, but after the Kielce pogrom, in which church going Poles murdered the few Jews who returned "home" after surviving the death camps, he moved to Paris, where he helped revive Yiddish cultural life among the surviving Jews and led a Yiddish literary club. Grade was one of the rare interpreters of yeshivah life in modern Yiddish literature, recreating the daily life of the yeshivah student. He then wrote Tsemach Atlas, and following that novel, he published two more collections of stories: Di Kloyz un di Gas and Der Shtumer Minyan, which again attempted to reconstruct the atmosphere of prewar Vilna. Grade's postwar poetry expressed, above all, the traumatic experience of the Holocaust and focused on the question of his own survival, while his prose works continued to reconstruct Jewish Vilna and the mind and piety of Lithuanian Jewry. From the beginning, his works possessed a distinct philosophical dimension.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. In Yiddish. 473 pages. 24 cm. 1st edition. Original Publisher's Cloth. 473 pages, 235 x 165 mm. Illustrated title page. Grade, a Yiddish poet and novelist, was born in Vilnius (Vilna). After his father's early death, his mother ran a market stall. He received a traditional education, attended several yeshivot, including seven years under the famed scholar-rabbi, the Hazon Ish. He become attracted to the Musar movement, made his literary debut in Dos Vort, became a member of Yung Vilne, where he was soon very prominent. The group sought both to synthesize secular Yiddish culture with new currents in world literature, and to bring the impoverished Jewish home into contact with the progressive forces of contemporary society. Grade?s poems appeared in leading Yiddish periodicals in Europe and the United States. His first book, YO, was acclaimed by critics for its stylistic elegance and its affirmation of faith in a synthesis of traditional and modern currents. His long poem "Ezekiel" demonstrated his understanding of the tragic nature of human and especially Jewish existence. Extremely important in his early period was Geveyn fun Doyres, which treats the issues of Jewish identity and national history. His long poem "Musernikes", describes the spiritual struggles of yeshivah students torn between the Musar traditions and worldly temptations. During World War II, Grade found refuge in Russia and continued to write. His next collection of poems, HAS, appearing in Moscow. After the war he dedicated a series of poems, "Mit Dayn Guf af mayne Hent" to his wife who perished in the Holocaust. In his volumes Doyres, Pleytim, and Shayn fun Farloshene Shtern, he mourned the victims of the Holocaust and describes the survivors. With this attempt at confronting the national Jewish tragedy, Grade became in a sense the national Jewish poet, as Bialik had been in his day. Grade's return to Vilna in 1946 was traumatic, as described in "Af di Khurbes", and he left for Poland, but after the Kielce pogrom, in which church going Poles murdered the few Jews who returned "home" after surviving the death camps, he moved to Paris, where he helped revive Yiddish cultural life among the surviving Jews and led a Yiddish literary club. Grade was one of the rare interpreters of yeshivah life in modern Yiddish literature, recreating the daily life of the yeshivah student. He then wrote Tsemach Atlas, and following that novel, he published two more collections of stories: Di Kloyz un di Gas and Der Shtumer Minyan, which again attempted to reconstruct the atmosphere of prewar Vilna. Grade's postwar poetry expressed, above all, the traumatic experience of the Holocaust and focused on the question of his own survival, while his prose works continued to reconstruct Jewish Vilna and the mind and piety of Lithuanian Jewry. From the beginning, his works possessed a distinct philosophical dimension.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In Yiddish. 235 x 155 mm. 189 pages. Inscribed and dated by the author. Maroon cloth with gold lettering. The book won the 1950 prize from the World Congress of Jewish Culture. It includes some outstanding lyrics in Yiddish and is permeated with love and respect for his mother, who perished during the Holocaust. Grade (1910-1982), a Yiddish poet and novelist was born in Vilna and became that city's most articulate literary interpreter. After his father's early death, his mother ran a market stall in order to provide him a traditional education. He attended several yeshivot, including seven years under the scholar-rabbi, the Hazon Ish. He was attracted to the Musar movement, made his literary debut in Dos Vort, and became a member of Yung Vilne. The group sought both to synthesize secular Yiddish culture with new currents in world literature, and to bring the impoverished Jewish home into contact with the progressive forces of contemporary society. Grade?s poems appeared in leading Yiddish periodicals in Europe and the U. S. His first book, Yo, was acclaimed by critics for its stylistic elegance and its affirmation of faith in a synthesis of traditional and modern currents. His long poem "Ezekiel" demonstrated his understanding of the tragic nature of human and especially Jewish existence. Important in his early period was Geveyn fun Doyres, which treats the issues of Jewish identity and national history. His long poem "Musernikes", describes the spiritual struggles of yeshivah students torn between the Musar traditions and worldly temptations. During World War II, Grade found refuge in Russia and continued to write, his next collection of poems appearing in Moscow and followed Soviet directives. After the war he dedicated a series of poems, "Mit Dayn Guf af mayne Hent" to his wife who perished in the Holocaust. In his volumes Doyres, Pleytim, and Shayn fun Farloshene Shtern, he mourned the victims of the Holocaust and describes the survivors. With this attempt at confronting the national Jewish tragedy. Grade's return to Vilna in 1946 was traumatic, as described in "Af di Khurbes", and he left for Poland but after the Kielce pogrom moved to Paris, where he helped to revive Yiddish cultural life among the surviving Jews, leading the Yiddish literary club. Grade was a great interpreter of yeshiva life in modern Yiddish literature, recreating the daily life of the yeshiva student with great accuracy and affection, as in Tzemakh Atlas for instance. After that work he published two more collections of stories: Di Kloyz un di Gas and Der Shtumer Minyan, which again attempted to reconstruct the atmosphere of prewar Vilna. Grade's postwar poetry expressed, above all, the trauma of the Holocaust and focused on the question of his own survival, while his prose works continued to depict Jewish Vilna and the piety of Lithuanian Jewry. Signed Inscription By Author -.