Dos gezang fun Neger-folḳ : Iberdikhṭungen.
דאס געזאנג פון נעגער־פאלק : איבערדיכטונגען.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.

Contributor:

Bagish, Zishe, editor, translator.

Ṭinoṿitsḳi, Y., illustrator.

באגיש, זישע.

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Yiddish language--Texts.

Yiddish language.

African Americans--Songs and music.

African Americans.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Texts.

Penn Provenance:

Bagish, Zishe (inscription)

Stein, L.M. (inscription)

Physical Description:

[12], 13-44, [4] pages ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

[Chicago] : Farlag: M. Tseshinsḳi, Shiḳaga, nayntsinhunderṭ zeḳs und draysiḳ [that is, 1936]

[Sighetu Marmației, Romania] : Tipografia »Centralia« M. Rosenthal, Sighet-Maramureș

[שיקאגע] : פארלאג: מ. צעשינסקי, שיקאגע, ניינצנהונדערט זעקס און דרייסיק

Notes:

Issued in an illustrated wrapper; illustrator: Y. Ṭinoṿitsḳi.

"Zishe Bagish", pen-name of writer B. Vaysman

In two parts, pt. 1 translations from Langston Hughes; pt. 2 Negro folk-songs.

Local Notes:

Kislak Copy inscribed by Zishe Bagish to Chicago printer L.M. Stein (inscription in Yiddish: דעם שיקאגע פארלעגער ל. מ. שטיין : to פריינטלעכע מחנה מיין נעגער=ביכעל. זישע באגיש, בוקעראשט 16\יו. 1936).

Kislak copy sold at Kestenbaum & Company, Sale 80 (March 28, 2019) lot 116.

Cited in:

Schanfield, Lillian. “Lost in Translation: Reading Langston Hughes in Yiddish.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 83, no. 1, 2018, pp. 70–82.

OCLC:

123019800