For the Homeland in Battle!

Description:

Yiddish pamphlet Farn Heimland in Slacht!, Zamlung, (anthology) Moscow 1941 with graphic with red flag and rifle. Melucha Farlag, Der Emes, Moskeva, 1941. (Moscow: State Publishing House “The Truth,”). Translated Summary: Poetry by Peretz Markish and others associated with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC). Written during World War II apparently right after the U.S.S.R. was invaded by Nazi Germany in Operation Barbarossa. Peretz Markish, Avrom Reisen, Yosef Kerler, and others appear here with poetry, prose, and a play. Marked up in pencil (as edits for proofs?). The pages between 54-59 seem to be missing: pieces of those pages have been left in that place. Notably contains Peretz Markish poem: Tsurik in Heyl Arein (Return to the Cave). Peretz Markish is the editor of this anthology.

Date:

1941

Copyright:

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Creator:

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC)

File Name:

5276b47f16_01

Identifier:

International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 47, Folder 16

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University