Grininke beymelekh (cover)
Grininke beymelekh (Little Green Trees), no. 1 (Vilna: B. A. Kletzkin, 1914.) The title of this Yiddish children’s journal, the first of the genre to appear regularly, was drawn from the Yiddish poem Unter beymer (Under Trees) by Chaim Nahman Bialik, an excerpt of which appears at top left: “Under the little green trees / Play Moyshele, / Shloymele . . . Oy, how precious to me, Jewish children / Are your pure little eyes!” The journal was published in Vilna from 1914 to 1939, with Zelig Melamed at the helm for its first publication.
Credits
Zelig Melamed, ed., Grininke boymelekh 1 (Feb. 1914). Courtesy National Library of Israel.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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