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RUSSIAN AMERICAN ANTI-FASCISTS IN THE 1940s Novosel’ye [i.e. Housewarming]

Item #2226

New York: 1942-1950; Paris: 1950. #4-5 of 1943. 90 pp. 15x22.7 cm. In the original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers and pages detached, tears to the spine, stamp “Property of Russian Church Library” on p. 3, 57, 89, occasional staining. Otherwise in good condition.

Scarce. First edition.
An early issue of the Russian émigré magazine Novosel’ye [i.e. Housewarming] published in New York from 1942 to 1950 and in Paris in 1950. The magazine was established by Sofiya Pregel (1894-1972), a Russian poet, who moved to Berlin shortly after the October Revolution and to Paris in 1933. Seven years later, in view of the approaching threat from the Nazis, Sofiya left Paris for Lisbon and ended up in New York at the end of the year. There, she took part in Literary Mondays held by the Association of Russian Writers in New York and became a member of the board of directors of the American-Russian Cultural Association (ARCA). In February 1942, Sofiya began publishing the Novoselye magazine, seeking to unite in it anti-fascist, liberal-democratic creative forces. The magazine existed for 8 years with the last two issues being published in Paris, where Pregel returned in the fall of 1948. Novoselye was predominantly a literary and art magazine, which opened its pages to specialists from various fields including politics, social life, philosophy, culture, and art.
The issue contains prose and poetry by Yu. Sazonova, Sofiya Pregel, S. Dubnova, S. Liberman, B, Romanov, etc.

Overall, an interesting insight into the literary activity of the Russian emigres in the early 1940s United States.

Price: $250.00