ליד אָן טיטל אָנהײבנדיק 'קלאָרער הימל בלױ געטובלט'
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Title:
ליד אָן טיטל אָנהײבנדיק 'קלאָרער הימל בלױ געטובלט'
Series Title:
Papers of Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl]. Writings
Alternate Title:
Poem beginning 'Clear skies baptised blue'
Alternate Title:
Clear skies baptised blue
Creator:
Stencl, Abraham Nahum, 1897- ( Author, Primary )
Stencl, Abraham Nahum (1897-1983), poet ( contributor )
שטענצעל, אברהם נחום, 1897-1983 ( contributor )
שטנצל, אברהם נחום, 1897-1983 ( contributor )
Place of Publication:
[לאנדאן]
[לונדון]
[London]
Publisher:
[מאַנוסקריפּץ]
[כתבי יד]
[unpublished manuscript]
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Language:
Yiddish
Hebrew
English

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Poem beginning 'Clear skies baptised blue' ( Clear skies baptised blue )
Spatial Coverage:
Europe -- United Kingdom -- England -- Greater London

Notes

Abstract:
Scope and content of this item: Untitled poem beginning 'Clear skies baptised blue' -- 12 line, 3 stanzas poem on the theme of spring and love. Manuscript. Written on the back of proof of poem 'For the 30th Anniversary of the State of Israel. Je-ru-sa-lem' (24 lines, 6 stanzas) published in LL Vol. 467-468, Jan-May 1978. -- Bashteyt fun 12 shures, 3 ferzn oyf der teme fun friling un libe. Ksav-yad. Geshribn oyf der anderer zayt fun korektur fun lid 'Tsum 30'stn yor medines yisroel. Ye-ru-sho-la-im' (24 shures, 6 ferzn) gedrukt in Losh un lebn Heft 467-468, yanuar-mai 1978. ( en )
General Note:
Level of description: Item
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גרייס: 1 נומער
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Extent: 1 folio
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Summary of the Stencl archive (PP MS 44): Papers, c 1910-1983, of Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl], relating to his life and work and to modern Yiddish literature, and comprising papers relating to his life, 1934-1978, including letters received from his family, photographs, press cuttings relating to his life and work, and personal documents; manuscript and printed writings, 1930-1980, in verse and prose, including some autobiographical and works on literature; papers, 1918-1983, largely dating from the 1940s and after, relating to 'Loshn un Lebn' and the Friends of Yiddish circle, other friends and acquaintances, Jewish organisations, and Stencl's involvement in literary events, comprising letters received and other papers, including works by other authors, of over 200 correspondents, some of them annotated by Stencl; ephemera, c 1910-1982, accumulated by Stencl, including postcards, membership cards, receipts, tickets, greeting cards, circulars, advertisements, and flyers
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Administrative history: Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl]: born in Tsheladzh, in south-western Poland, 1897; arrived in Berlin, 1921; a leading Yiddish literary figure in Germany, he wrote expressionist poetry and associated with other literary figures including Else Lasker-Schüler (Schueler) and Thomas Mann; he was a pioneer of the modernist form in Yiddish poetry, but his themes and imagery drew on Jewish tradition; fled to Britain in the mid-1930s; following his arrival his best-known works were on Whitechapel, where he settled, and which he admired as the last Yiddish 'shtetl' [place]; edited 'Loshn un Lebn' [Language and Life], a Yiddish literary journal, for over 40 years; chaired the literarishe shábes-nokhmîtiks [literary Sunday afternoons] meetings; lived in Greatorex Road, off Whitechapel High Street; died, 1983. An annual lecture at the University of Oxford was founded in his name
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Custodial history: Stencl's library, numbering several thousand books and periodicals, letters and other papers, which included collections passed onto him by other Yiddish literary figures, were removed from his flat in Whitechapel after his death
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Acquisition: The papers were donated to SOAS, as part of Stencl's library, by Mrs Miriam Stencl Becker, his great-niece, in 1983
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Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
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Resource Identifier:
PP MS 44, Stencl, Box 19B ( Order with )
PP MS 44/02/24/140 ( CALM reference code )