Abraham Mintchine

(1898 - 1931)

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Era Kormann (Ed.)

Brenendike brikn

Antologye fun revolutsiyonerer lirik in der nayer yidisher sikhtung fun Ukraine

Burning bridges

An Anthology of revolutionary lyrics in the new Yiddish poetry of Ukraine

Berlin: Yidisher Literarisher Farlag, 1923

176 x 138 mm. 124 pages. 

Edition: 5,000.

The cover shows images of three broken, weblike arched bridges floating through a whirlwind at upended angles; the title of the book in contrasting black-and-white letters; and the title and author's name in concentric curve at the bottom of the image. Mintshin also did the illustrations marking each of the three sections of poems in the anthology, which Korman calls 'cycles. ' The titles of the sections were taken from poem by David Hofshteyn; 'In veltn-konen,' 'Infayerdikn doyer,' and 'Rusland.' Mintchine also designed the titles that mark the heading, 'Antologye,' and the two tables of contents, 'Inhalt'. Including the cover, the work contains a total of 4 illustrations by Mintshin and one by Rybak.

References:

Kathryn Hellerstein, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987, Stanford, 2014.

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