"Yung-Yiddish" – Avant-garde Yiddish Periodical – Lodz, 1919

Yung-Yiddish, Ferter-Finfter-Sexter Boigen (issues 4-6). Lodz: Yung-Yiddish, Kislev 1919. Yiddish. Numbered copy (out of 500 copies).
Issue of the periodical published by the Yung-Yiddish group active in Lodz ca. 1918-1921. The issue features poems, texts and linocuts by Mark Schwarz, Hanoch Berchinsky, Yitzhak Broiner, Marc Chagall, Moshe Broderzon, Uri Zvi Greenberg and others.
On the front cover is a short handwritten note signed "Pola" and dated 28.X.22. It was, presumably, written by Pola Lindenfeld (1900-1942. Murdered in the Lodz Ghetto), a contributor to the issue and member of the Yung-Yiddish group.
The issue was printed in 500 numbered copies; this being copy no. 357.
The illustrated publications of the Yung-Yiddish group attest to the synthetic experiments of Moishe Broderzon and the group. One of the outstanding achievements in this field is the periodical "Yung-Yiddish", published in 1919. The aspiration for mutual influence between text and graphics and the erasure of boundaries between literature and art was proclaimed in the periodical's subtitle: "Lider in Wart un Zeichnugen" ("Poems in Word and Paintings"). This aim dictated the journal's external appearance, which combines text with illustration. The journal's issues are reminiscent of Russian Futurist books; just like in Futurist publications, the graphics in "Yung-Yiddish" are is not merely illustrative, but rather constitute an independent component of the periodical.
[14] leaves, 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases. Tears to margins, some open; most restored. The journal's spine is restored. Inserted in a fine cardboard box.