Simon, Solomon; Aharon Gudlman (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Yiddish. 104 pages. 236 x 156 mm. Publishers cloth. First edition. Bound in brown cloth and color-printed pictorial onlay, with decorative end papers. Solomon Simon (1895-1970) was a prolific Yiddish writer, famous for his children's stories and as a leading figure of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute. "Shmerl Nar" (later translated as The Wandering Beggar), is about a Jewish simpleton accomplishing accidental "miracles" as he wandered about Russian towns. Farlag Matones was founded by "the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. [and] as a publisher of children's books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin" (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Aharon Gudlman (illustrator). 104 pages. Illustrated by the artist, Aharon Gudlman (1890-1978). Author Solomon Simon, born Shlomo Shimonovich, (1895-1970) in a shtetl in Czarist Russia, grew up handicap because of rickets, yet learning in several yeshivas and serving in the Russian Army, as well as the US military after immigrating to the US. Active in the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, Dr Simon's books reflect his Yiddish upbringing. This book is about a simple Jewish wandering beggar going through Russian towns and the dramatic stories that follow. Clean text, front hinge cracked.

Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 104 pages. 24 cm. Second edition. In Yiddish. Translated title: "Shmerl the Fool: The Story of an Unknown Hero. " Bound in blue cloth and color-printed pictorial onlay. Solomon Simon (1895-1970) was a prolific Yiddish writer, famous for his children's stories and as a leading figure of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute. "Shmerl Nar" (later translated as The Wandering Beggar) , is about a Jewish simpleton accomplishing accidental "miracles" as he wandered about Russian towns. Farlag Matones was founded by "the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. . [and] as a publisher of children's books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin" (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) . Subjects: Children's literature, Yiddish. Children's story. OCLC lists 30 copies worldwide. Light tear to top edge of backstrip, light wear to covers, hinges starting. Otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YIDCHI-6-4).

Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 104 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Translated title: Shmerl the Fool: The Story of an Unknown Hero. Bound in brown cloth and color-printed pictorial onlay, with decorative endpages. Solomon Simon (1895-1970) was a prolific Yiddish writer, famous for his children's stories and as a leading figure of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute. "Shmerl Nar" (later translated as The Wandering Beggar) , is about a Jewish simpleton accomplishing accidental "miracles" as he wandered about Russian towns. Farlag Matones was founded by "the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. . [and] as a publisher of children's books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin" (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) . OCLC lists 30 copies. Subjects: Children's literature, Yiddish. Children's story. Backstrip tattered, light wear to covers, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YIDCHI-6-4A).

Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 104 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Translated title: Shmerl the Fool: The Story of an Unknown Hero. Bound in brown cloth and color-printed pictorial onlay, with decorative endpages. Solomon Simon (1895-1970) was a prolific Yiddish writer, famous for his children's stories and as a leading figure of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute. "Shmerl Nar" (later translated as The Wandering Beggar) , is about a Jewish simpleton accomplishing accidental "miracles" as he wandered about Russian towns. Farlag Matones was founded by "the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. . [and] as a publisher of children's books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin" (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) . Subjects: Children's literature, Yiddish. Children's story. OCLC lists 30 copies. Backstrip absent, edges of cover worn, hinges started, first decorative endpage absent, otherwise clean and fresh. Fair condition. (YIDCHI-6-4B).