Y.A. Ṿigdorovits Collection of handwritten plays and poems, 1983-1947.

4 works in 3 volumes ; 19-22 cm

Hebrew

In Hebrew, with Hebrew translations from Yiddish and Russian.

Purchased from Bery Gross on the Rosalyn and Joseph Newman Collection Fund, 2015.

The collection includes three bound ledgers with texts handwritten in Hebrew by Y. A. Vigdorovich, dated between 1938 and 1947 at Kibbutz Yagur. The texts are partially vocalized. One volume contains two works translated from Yiddish: "The Chains of the Messiah" by H. Leivick (Mesheḳ Yagur ,1938-42) and "The Golden Chain" by Y. L. Peretz (Yagur, 1942:setaṿ). Another volume contains a translation from Russian of the play "The life of man" by L. Andreyev (Yagur, 1942/44). The third volume contains a play by Y. A. Vigdorovich, "Shadows of the past: from the way of life of a village that was destroyed: a comedy in four acts" (Yagur,1947).

October 27, 2015