DI LIEBE: A FILOZOFISHE BETRAKHTUNG IBER DI VIRKLIKHE GEFIHLE FUN LIEBE UND NATUR'S TSVEKMESIGKAYT

by 16. [Rare, Only 2 Copies in OCLC & Singerman] Hermalin, D. M. [David Moyshe]

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Nyu York (New York): Ferlag fun Meyer Hinski [Chinsky], 1899. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers (English side only), 8vo, 61 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Love: A Philosophical Reflection on the Real Feeling of Love and Nature's Reciprocity." Singerman Supplement 0765. Vol I, No. 11 (December 1899) of "The Classical Library: A Monthly Magazine of Select Literature." Not to be confused with the more common Hebrew Publishing Company edition from a year later. The author, David Moses Hermalin (1865-1921) was a Romanian-born Jewish American Yiddish writer, journalist, newspaper editor, and playwright....He worked as a journalist for Romanian newspapers in Bucharest, but was compelled to leave for protesting against Jewish persecution. He immigrated to America in 1885 and began writing for the Nyu Yorker Yudishe Folkstsaytung when it was founded in 1886. He spent a year working as a Hebrew teacher in Montreal, Canada, after which he returned to New York City and worked as a journalist full-time. He became an important contributor and co-editor of various Yiddish newspapers like Folks Advokat, Idishe Herald, Varhayt, and Der Tog.One source described him as the most important family page editor in Yiddish for many years. Hermalin wrote novels and treatises on popular philosophy. He made a number of loose Yiddish translations of European literature, including the works of Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Boccaccio,

• Publisher: Nyu York (New York): Ferlag fun Meyer Hinski [Chinsky]
• Year: 1899
• Binding: unknown

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