Grade Chaim, First Edition (11 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Text is in English and Yiddish. Two leaves have top corner crease; tight, text clean. 75, [61] p. Published at $19.95 [otob: 20].

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping and creasing. Binding is sound. Interior covers have heavy age-toning and foxing with smudging. Page edges have heavy age-toning and smudging with foxing. Interior pages have moderate age-toning and smudging with foxing. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, 1982. This book is in near fine condition - slight wear to edges of boards. The dust jacket is in good condition - not price-clipped; edge wear with chipping across the bottom of the spine and at the back top for about six centimetres beside the spine; the dust jacket at the front top has been folded back a bit and has a one centimetre tear in the middle and a two centimetre tear beside the spine.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (yiddish fiction).

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Jewish Publication Society of America, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Green topstain. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear. Great copy of this compelling novel. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Translated by Ruth Wisse. About fine in lightly spine-toned else near fine dust jacket. Novel translated from the Yiddish, about a humble porter in Vilna who crusades to repair the towns well. Uncommon.

Die Andere Bibliothek, sehr guter Zustand! Begründet von Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hg. von Christian Döring. Band 431: Limitierte und nummerierte Erstausgabe Nr. 3242 von 3333 Ex. O.-Leineneinband, mit O.-Pappschuber, mit rotem Lederschild und rotem Lesebändchen. 424 Seiten, 12.5 x 21.5 cm, 658 g.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo in dark green cloth, title and devices in gilt. Front cover has slight wear, including very light scratches and a few stains. Spine in great condition, but cracked hinge. Dated 1956, the signature is a dedication in Yiddish from the author to his friend. Signed By Author.

Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. First Printing. Two volumes:volume has dj which has slight chips and tears and smudging, slight foxing to side fore edge, and volume 2 no dj can sned pictures "The monumental, two-volume novel Tsemakh Atlas (19671968; translated as The Yeshiva) is Grade 's richest work about the Musar world and its attempt to shape the ethical personality. Through the memorable character of Tsemakh Atlas, a tortured teacher of Musar who is trapped between its self-abnegating demands, the enticements of the secular world, and his own elemental desires, readers enter a universe of high religious ideals, intellectual and moral debate, and intense spiritual struggle." From The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe edited by Gershon Hundert pp. 626.

Hardcover. Condition: 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 -.