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RARE FIRST EDITION of a poem composed by an eminent Jewish poet, dramatist and teacher Itzhak Katzenelson (1886-1944) who was murdered in Auschwitz. Itzhak Katzenelson wrote this poem in a detention camp in Vittel, France, where he put the manuscript in bottles and buried them under a tree, from where it was recovered after the war; a copy was sewn into the handle of a suitcase and later taken to Israel. 210x150mm. 80 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly stained. Cover upper part detached from spine. Cover and spine yellowing/age-stained and rubbed. Cover edges and corners, and spine edges tattered and partly missing. Page 51/52 upper corner and pages whitepage and title page edge slightly torn - no damage to text. Some page edges slightly worn as a result of rough cutting of pages - no damage to text. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of an influential poems about the destruction the Jewish people in the Holocaust is otherwise in good condition.