Chaim Grade, Autograph on his Yiddish book: My Mother's Sabbaths, illust. by Ilya Schor, 1959
Der Mames Shabosim My Mother's Sabbaths
Inscribed /dedication by the author on the half-title page, 1961
NY: Cyco, 1959. Second Edition. 477 pp In Yiddish , Design of the book, Illustrated title page, and titles by Ilya Schor
Hardcover. 23.8 x 16 cm.
Condition: light wear to cover, good condition.
Weight: 780 gr.
Ilya Schor (April 16, 1904 – June 7, 1961) was an artist, a painter, jeweler, engraver, sculptor, and renowned artist of Judaica.
Ilya Schor was born in Z?oczów (Galicia), in the Austrian Empire (now Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) in 1904. He came from a deeply Hasidic family. His father, Naftali, was a folk-artist, painting colorfully illustrated store signs for local merchants. Schor first trained as an apprentice in metalcrafts and engraving before enrolling at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1930 where he studied painting. In 1937, Ilya was awarded a grant by the Polish government to study in Paris. He exhibited successfully at the Salon d'Automne in 1938.
Ilya Schor and his artist wife, Resia, immigrated to the United States in December 1941, from Marseilles, via Lisbon, after fleeing Paris in late May 1940. The couple had two daughters, born in New York City: artist and writer Mira Schor (b. 1950) and the late literary scholar and theorist, Naomi Schor (1943–2001).[1]
Chaim Grade (Yiddish: ???? ??????) (April 4, 1910 – June 26, 1982) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.
Grade was born in Vilnius, Russian Empire and died in The Bronx, New York. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, New Jersey.
Grade was raised Orthodox-leaning, and he studied in yeshiva as a teenager, but ended up with a secular outlook, in part due to his poetic ambitions. Losing his family in the Holocaust, he resettled in New York, and increasingly took to fiction, writing in Yiddish. Initially he was reluctant to have his work translated.[1][2]
He was praised by Elie Wiesel as "one of the great—if not the greatest—of living Yiddish novelists."[3] In 1970 he won the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters.[4]