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Hermalin, D. M. [David Moyshe] : DI LIEBE: A FILOZOFISHE BETRAKHTUNG IBER DI VIRKLIKHE GEFIHLE FUN LIEBE UND NATUR'S TSVEKMESIGKAYT

Nyu York (New York): Ferlag fun Meyer Hinski [Chinsky], 1899

1st edition. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers (English side only), 8vo, 61 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Love: A Philosophical Reflection on the Real Feeling of Love and Nature's Reciprocity.” Singerman Supplement 0765. Vol I, No. 11 (December 1899) of “The Classical Library: A Monthly Magazine of Select Literature.” Not to be confused with the more common Hebrew Publishing Company edition from a year later. The author, David Moses Hermalin (1865-1921) was a Romanian-born Jewish American Yiddish writer, journalist, newspaper editor, and playwright….He worked as a journalist for Romanian newspapers in Bucharest, but was compelled to leave for protesting against Jewish persecution. He immigrated to America in 1885 and began writing for the Nyu Yorker Yudishe Folkstsaytung when it was founded in 1886. He spent a year working as a Hebrew teacher in Montreal, Canada, after which he returned to New York City and worked as a journalist full-time. He became an important contributor and co-editor of various Yiddish newspapers like Folks Advokat, Idishe Herald, Varhayt, and Der Tog.One source described him as the most important family page editor in Yiddish for many years. Hermalin wrote novels and treatises on popular philosophy. He made a number of loose Yiddish translations of European literature, including the works of Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Boccaccio, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jonathan Swift. In 1895, he rewrote the Shakespearean plays Julius Caesar and Macbeth into Yiddish, which were then staged as Yiddish plays” (Wikipedia). For more on the publisher, Meyer Chinksy [Moyshe Chenchinski] see Lederhandler, “Stories My Grandfather Never Told Me: The Memoirs of Moishe Chinsky (Chenchinski),” in The American Jewish Archives Journal LXIX, no. 1 (2017). SUBJECT(S): Love. OCLC: 667629903. OCLC and Singerman together list only 2 copies worldwide (Yale & NLI). Lacks Front cover (probably identical to Yiddish title page, which is present), paper browning as expected but solid, Good Condition thus. Rare. (AMR-67-23)

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