Translations in Verse

Frank, Helena C. [1872-1954]

Published by Richard Clay, London, 1911

About this Item

19x12cm, vi,101 pp., Top edge gilt. "For Private Circulation Only". Includes translations from Russian, Italian, German, French, Spanish & Yiddish. Inscribed by author on flyleaf: "To H.M. Queen Odin / in dutiful & unchangeing / affection from / Helena Frank / No Danish!". Frank was the founder of the Anglo-Jewish Yiddish Literary Society". ["In addition to her pioneering book of Perets translations (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1906) .,.and the above-mentioned Yiddish Tales (1912), Frank translated the poems of the most important of the Yiddish "proletarian" poets, Moris Roznfeld, together with the notorious socialist-activist married-to-a-millionaire Rose Pastor Stokes (who worked in a cigarette factory in the East End of London before emigrating to America). Their collaborative effort, Songs of Labor (Boston, 1914).,." - Mendele Review, No. 179, 2007]-. Seller Inventory # 024957

Bibliographic Details

Title: Translations in Verse

Publisher: Richard Clay, London

Publication Date: 1911

Binding: orig.cloth

Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.