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Star of ashes = [Kokhav ha-efer = Ash-shṭern] / [by] Ka. Tsetnik ; [translated from the Hebrew by H. Zeldes and Nina DeNur] ; lithographs [by] Gershon Knispel.
Star of ashes = [כוכב האפר = אש-שטערן] [by] Ka. Tsetnik ; [translated from the Hebrew by H. Zeldes and Nina DeNur] ; lithographs [by] Gershon Knispel.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knispel, Gershon.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--In art.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Poetry.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Lithographs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Knispel, Gershon (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 18 unnumbered leaves, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 x 34 cm
- Other Title:
- Ash-shṭern
- Kokhav ha-efer
- Star of ashes.
- אש־שטערן
- כוכב האפר
- Place of Publication:
- [Tel-Aviv], [Menorah], [1967]
- Language Note:
- Yiddish, Hebrew, and English in parallel columns.
- Notes:
- Plates accompanied by transparent guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
- "Exclusive edition containing eighteen lithographies to the book by Ka. Tzetnik 'Star of Ashes.' Two hundred and fifty copies numbered and signed by the artist."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Mark S. Zucker Judaica Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy numbered 131/250.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. dedication by the artist on preliminary leaf verso dated 6 May 1967.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ḳnispel, Gershon. Star of ashes.
- OCLC:
- 473121
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