Moykher-Sforim, Mendele - "The Calf" - Russian Children´s Book Autographs Singers 50 or less F Belgian tenor (1883-1960)

Belgian tenor (1883-1960)

minor creases and loss of paper over top right corner

inscribed and dated by him in New York

Inscribed by Romagnoni

Moykher-Sforim, Mendele - "The Calf" - Russian Children´s Book Autographs Singers 50 or less F Belgian tenor (1883-1960)Published in St. Petersburg Kiev by Yiddisher Folks Farlag, 1919, 8. 2 x 10. 4 inches, 16 pages, in very good condition. Illustrated by Iosif Chaikov. "Dos Kelbel" (The Calf), is an abridgement of Moykher Sforims Sefere ha behemot (The Book of Beasts). His real name was Sholem Yankev Abramovich (1836 1917), and is credited with founding modern literature in Yiddish. He was an editor, satirist, and teacher who opposed traditional Yiddish writing in a