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A blue book without wrapper in good condition - 306 pg. >>> This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. - Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. >>> Joseph Leftwich (1892-1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a critic and translator into English of . He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry, and his 1957 biography of .Israel Zangwill. He was one of the "White-chapel Boys '' group of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly 1910-1914. (Wiki) >>> LEFTWICH, JOSEPH (18921984), English author, editor, and anthologist. Born Joseph Lefkowitz in Holland, Leftwich eventually became head of the London branch of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (19211936). He made his name as an authority on Jewish and Yiddish literature, translating works by Sholem Asch, Max Brod, I.L. Peretz, Zalman Schneour and Stefan Zweig. The Nazis' rise to power stirred him to write What Will Happen to the Jews? (1936) and The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism (in collaboration with A.K. Chesterton, 1948). He also wrote Yiddish Language and Literature (1944), and studies of Herzl (1942) and Zangwill (1957). Leftwich edited two influential anthologies: Yisröel, the First Jewish Omnibus (1933; revised 1963), a wide selection, in English, from the Jewish literature of many countries, and The Golden Peacock (1939), translations from Yiddish poetry. He published a new anthology of Yiddish essays in English translation, The Way We Think (2 vols., 1969). He served from 1945 as director of the British Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations. Leftwich was a friend and associate of such noted East End cultural figures as Isaac *Rosenberg and Mark *Gertler, and coined the name the "Whitechapel Boys" for their group.
