Romeo un Zshulyeṭe : ṭragedya in 5 aḳṭn / Ṿilyam Sheḳspir.
ראמעא אונ זשוליעטע : טראגעדיע אינ 5 אקטנ וויליאמ שעקספיר.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Margolies Judaica Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)

Holocaust-Era Judaic Heritage Library (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section)

Goldberg, Iṭsche, translator.

Melukhe-farlag fun Ṿaysrusland (Minsk, Belarus), publisher.

Druḳerey-Ḳarasiḳ (Minsk, Belarus), printer.

גאלדבערג, י.

מעלוכע־פארלאג פונ ווייסרוסלאנד.

דרוקעריי-קאראסיק

Standardized Title:

Romeo and Juliet. Yiddish

Language:

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Verona (Italy)--Drama.

Verona (Italy).

Italy--Verona.

Romeo (Fictitious character)--Drama.

Romeo.

Juliet (Fictitious character)--Drama.

Juliet.

Vendetta--Drama.

Vendetta.

Youth--Drama.

Youth.

Juliet (Fictitious character).

Romeo (Fictitious character).

Genre:

Drama.

Tragedies.

Penn Provenance:

Goldberg, Iṭsche (inscription) (autograph) (Kislak Copy)

Gurshteĭn, A. (Aron) (1895-1941) (inscription) (Kislak Copy)

Physical Description:

140, [4] pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

[First Yiddish translation].

Manufacture:

[Minsk] : Faranṭṿorṭlekher ḳareḳṭer fun Druḳerey-Ḳarasiḳ, druḳerey A.N. Sṭalin, Minsḳ

[מינסק] : פאראנטווארטלעכער קארעקטער פון דרוקעריי-קאראסיק, דרוקעריי א.נ. סטאלינ מינסק

Place of Publication:

[Minsk] : Melukhe-farlag fun Ṿaysrusland, Minsḳ ; Natsseḳṭer, 1935.

[מינסק] : מעלוכע־פארלאג פונ ווייסרוסלאנד, מינסק, נאצסעקטער, 1935.

Notes:

Edition supplied by cataloger.

"Fun English - Y. Goldberg" -- title page verso; translated by I. Goldberg; Itsche Goldberg, published eight of Shakespeare's major plays in Yiddish in 1933-38, thought to have been murdered during the Stalinist liquidation of Yiddish culture in the late 1940s and early 1950s; see Kahn, p. 65-66.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Kislak Copy purchased from PY Rare Books (London), 2024.

Kislak Copy bound in printed card, as issued (vignette of William Shakespeare above title, on front; price and publication information in Yiddish and Russian, on rear).

Kislak Copy inscribed by the translator to Yiddish author and translator Aron Gurshteĭn on front flyleaf (inscription, dated 12 December 1935: "דעם ב' א. גורשטיין מיט אפטונג [=אָפּקלונג?] י. גאלדבערג, מינסק 12/XII/35", followed by address in Russian).

Cited in:

Kahn, Lily. Jewish Cultural Traditions within a Modernising EarlySoviet Framework: Y. Goldberg's 1935 Yiddish Othello, in Shakespeare, 2022, VOL. 18, NO. 1, 62-82.

Prager, Leonard. "Shakespeare in Yiddish." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, 1968, pp. 149-58.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxx96qPfyhwWrJChP9kXd. Romeo and Juliet. Yiddish. Romeo un Zshulyeṭe.

OCLC:

19307470