Thank you, dear Ruth,
You are completely right, for the generation of our parents Eliezer Steinbarg was an icon, so for my late father. I grew up with Steinbarg's fables, rather and earlier than with the fairy tales of Grimm Brothers, Andersen or - in Romanian - Ion Creanga.
As far as not still copyright protected, I'm going to publish some of his fables at our Czernowitz Book Corner
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/
in future. Thank you once again for your contribution and, yes, it's too bad that - like me - most of us can't enjoy his fables in the original.
Edgar Hauster
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From: Ruth Levin <rutele.vin_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 07:40
To: Edgar Hauster
Cc: Czernowitz Discussion Group
Subject: Re: Book of the Month, January 2017: Alef-Beys / Aleph-Beis / Alphabet
Edgar,
I have Eliezer Steinbarg's Alef-Beys on my book shelf. It was a present from my aunt. She even took it with her to Transnistria - when she was already a young woman.
By the way, Steinbarg was much more than a story teller. He was a brilliant fable writer, a Yiddish Aesop. It's a shame that most of us can't enjoy his fables in the original.
Ruth
On 6 January 2017 at 07:57, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com<mailto:bconcept_at_hotmail.com>> wrote:
Czernowitzers...
Let's start the new year 2017 appropriately with Eliezer Steinbarg's Alef-Beys / Aleph-Beis / Alphabet. Have you ever been to the Chernivtsi Museum of Bukovinian Jewish History and Culture? One unique artefact in the Museum’s collection is a copy of Eliezer Steinbarg’s Alef-Beys - Aleph-Beis - Alphabet. At the antiquarian bookseller's you'll get it between $ 500.00 - $ 2,000.00, at our Ehpes Blog it's free:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2017/01/alef-beys-aleph-beis-alphabet.html
The book was published in Chernivtsi in 1921 by the publishing house 'Kultur'. Their goal was to promote Yiddish language among the Germanophone Jewish community of Bukovina. Teacher, storyteller and social activist, Eliezer Steinbarg created a handbook for children from the society 'Shulferain', which he organized in Czernowitz. The artists Arthur Kolnik, Josef Lerner and Rubin Zelikovici illustrated the Alphabet book.
If you read Yiddish enjoy the content, if not - like me - enjoy the generously illustrated edition!
Edgar Hauster
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