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In Hebrew, vowelized. 27 pages. 242 x 165 mm. Top corner of front wrapper damaged. This work was first published by Schocken in 1946. Prepared at the workshop of Tarshish Publishing. Drawings by Tirza [Tana?i]. Cover by P. Baruch. Yitzhak Shaberg (Shenhar) (21 Feb. 1907 Volochysk, Volyn region, Ukraine - 18 June 1957 Jerusalem, Israel) immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1921. In 1942 he became editor of Schocken Publishing. Two stories. At age of 5, he moved with his parents to the town of Ternoruda a.n. Bog. In 1914, during the First World War, the family moved to Proskov, where Shanhar studied Russian at a Russian gymnasium, and Hebrew with a private tutor. In 1917-1918 he was active in the "Pioneer" movement. Arriving in Eretz Israel he was a worker for the railways, in construction and agricultural worker. In 1923, he moved to Kibbutz Merhavia, and a year later he returned to Tel Aviv and studied languages. In 1930 he went to study economics in Belgium at the University of Brussels, and returned to Israel in 1931. Shanhar was one of the founders in 1934 of Gilyonot, a magazine edited by Yitzhak Lamdan. Starting 1935 he served as secretary and assistant to the publisher Shlomo Zalman Shocken and starting 1942 became Schocken Publishing?s editor. Starting 1943 he edited the yearbook Luakh Ha'aretz. During the War of Independence he stayed in Jerusalem, dug military positions and served on guard duty. His brother Haim, Haim?s wife and son were killed in the explosion on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. After World War, he traveled several times to different countries in South America on behalf of the state and the government. He collected his impressions from these trips in his book Seven Ways (1953). His work includes about a hundred short stories and novellas, poems, translations and hymns. In his last years he began writing chapters of a novel, but this attempt was interrupted by his sudden death. His stories are 3 main themes: stories of the Jewish town in Eastern Europe; Stories from the pioneers in the Land of Israel; and stories of Israel after the establishment of the state, including the difficulties many had in adjusting to life in Israel in the early days. He translated into Hebrew Russian, German and English literature, including Oliver Twist by Dickens (1935); Dostoyevsky's White Nights (1945); Kafka?s Amerika (1945); Gogol's Dead Souls (1947); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1956-1957). He was appointed Consul of Israel in Bombay in 1957, but died before he took up his post. He won the Rupin Prize (1946) for his narrative work and the Tschernichovsky Prize (1948) for his translations. Seller Inventory # 016319
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