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FIRST US EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis portrait of Shazar and Leftwich. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Endpapers tanned, inscribed, rather fuzzily, in black pen to title page: "For Dr. Winsley-Stolz/ A good doctor/ a good friend/ A good interested Jew./ Joseph Leftwich". Else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket: rubbed, a little shelf-soiled, edgewear, extremities nicked and creased, two short closed tear to top edges of front and rear panels, price label to front flap. Nevertheless, a lovely, square copy, inscribed to a fellow Jewish refugee. Near fine/ very good One of the founding 'Whitechapel Boys' (and its key chronicler), Joseph Leftwich (1892 1983; born Joseph Lefkowitz) was a Jewish critic, poet, translator and expert on Jewish and Yiddish literature. He translated works by Sholem Asch, Max Brod, I. L. Peretz, Zalman Schneour, Zalman Shazar and Stefan Zweig. In response to the rise of the Nazis Leftwich wrote What Will Happen to the Jews? (1936) and, in collaboration with A. K. Chesterton, The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism (1948). He also published studies of Theodor Herzl (1942) and Israel Zangwill (1957), who also feature in Leftwich's poetry. An old friend of Leftwich's, Zalman Shazar was the third Israeli President (and the first ex-President), serving two terms. He wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish. A friend of Leftwich's, Henry Winsley-Stolz (1925-2001) was a GP in Muswell Hill. He endowed the annual Sarah Stolz lecture at Guy's Hospital in memory of his mother, with whom he had escaped Vichy France. Thirty years later, he planted a forest of trees in Israel to commemorate Thomas Guy. Seller Inventory # 2735
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