[In Yiddish:] Shtrom; Choydesh Heftn. 2. [Stream/Current. Monthly Magazine. No. 2.]

[Cover design by:] Chagall, Marc

Published by Der Shtrom, The Moscow School for Yiddish Printers, Moscow, 1922

About this Item

Cover design by Marc Chagall. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 80 p. The second number of the first Soviet Yiddish literary-cultural periodical, featuring a cover designed by Marc Chagall. Shtorm was founded and edited by a literary and artistic group formed in Kiev of Yekhezkl Dobrushin, Nokhem Oyslender, and Arn Kushnirov, and Dovid Hofshteyn. Six numbers were published in five issues between 1922 and 1924. Each cover featured the same illustration on the front by Marc Chagall. "Chagall used only the letters in the word Shtrom as illustrations, which included a disembodied person on the »R« and a factory with a worker entering the building as part of the »Sh«" (Shneer, pp. 145-6). Bibl.: Shneer, D.: Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press, 2004. . Paper yellowed due to aging. Tiny inkblots on cover. Note in pencil on title page. Numeric notes between pp. 9-25. Three pinholes throughout at the gutter. Cover artistically restored. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Seller Inventory # 1736

Bibliographic Details

Title: [In Yiddish:] Shtrom; Choydesh Heftn. 2. [...

Publisher: Der Shtrom, The Moscow School for Yiddish Printers, Moscow

Publication Date: 1922

Binding: Soft cover

Illustrator: Cover design by Marc Chagall.

Edition: First edition.