Cover, Di malke Shvo: dramatishe poeme

Moyshe Broderzon

1921

Print of two geometric figures with Yiddish heading underneath.

In 1920 and 1921, Broderzon, the guiding force of Yung-yidish (Young Yiddish), a literary and artistic group he co-founded in Łódź, published over half a dozen books of poetry and plays. Prolific and multi-talented, he illustrated many of his own books in a striking abstract style, including the cover of this play, Di malke Shvo (The Queen of Sheba). The journal published by Yung-yidish was subtitled Lider in Wart un Zeichnugen (“poems in word and drawings”), expressing the group’s desire to put visual and word art on an equal footing by combining text with drawings and woodcuts.

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Courtesy YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 8.

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Moyshe Broderzon

1890–1956

Moyshe Broderzon was born into a wealthy merchant family in Moscow. He lived in Lódz from 1918 to 1939 and was a founder of the Yung-yidish group. When the Germans invaded Poland, he fled to Moscow. In Stalin’s crackdown on Jewish cultural activity, he was sent to a Siberian labor camp in 1948. Released in 1955 and repatriated to Poland, he died soon after his return. He was a man of many talents: he wrote poetry, journalism, drama, songs for children, and libretti for opera. He founded little theaters, produced plays and puppet shows, and even turned his hand to prints and drawings.

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