Der Goldener Oparplane [Golden Airplane] written and illustrated by Yosef Tunkel, Warsaw 1914. First edition.
The author Yosef Tunkel [1881-1949]. Author, writer, poet, and cartoonist in Yiddish, a native of Belarus, mainly active in Poland and America, his pen name was ‘Der Tunkeler’ – the dark one, in an attempt to conceal his name. [Like in the book before us: “Written and illustrated by the dark one”], his literary style is considered a successor to the author ‘Shalom Aleichem’. He was miraculously saved during the Holocaust when he escaped from the detention camp in Strasbourg and fled to America.
96 pages, 21 cm.
New cardboard binding. Fine condition.