Discovery: 13 notebooks - songs, stories, plays and letters in the handwriting of the author Haim Hazaz that were ...

Discovery: 13 notebooks - songs, stories, plays and letters in the handwriting of the author Haim Hazaz that were never published

13 notebooks and pocket books containing dozens of poems, stories, notes, plays and letters - all in the handwriting of the renowned Hebrew writer and playwright Haim Hazaz. Before us is an unprecedented discovery, as the collection of essays before us has never been printed, nor published on any stage.

Some of the notebooks before us were written in the early period of Hazaz's creation [in the 1930s and 1940s], and others in a later period. For example, there are: an early notebook with dozens of short stories and plays, a song that opens with the words 'a long, strong, tanned hand', a story about 'the night watchman in the Foreign Legion', a long story 'while the glasses are paired' with dozens of corrections and erasures while writing, A notebook with Hasidic stories - Some of them in Yiddish often he quoted from Agadot Chaz'al in Jewish topics, a notebook with notes about Spanish Jewry during the Inquisition, a long story called 'Old Lapin', a song 'Kinneret', long lists of short words and sentences and their literary commentary, and many other passages and essays, which have not been thoroughly tested by us.

Haim Hazaz [1898-1973] A Hebrew writer and playwright, a man of spirit and thought, one of the most prominent of his generation and a cultural leader. Winner of the first Israel Prize for Literature. In the spring of 1931, he moved to Eretz Israel from his hometown of Kiev, and after a few months settled in Jerusalem, where he never ceased to create his extensive work in the field of literature, while standing in an unprecedented position of influence on Hebrew culture in Israel. 

13 notebooks. Different sizes. Some notebook pages have moisture stains (no text damage), general condition good - moderate.