Description: David Pinski, Autograph on his book: Er Lebt! Un Andere Dertseylungen. In Yiddish, 1946, 318 pp. NY, some wear to cover, light damping to edges, good condition David Pinski (1872 ?1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution, Pinski was the first to introduce to its stage a drama about urban Jewish workers; a dramatist of ideas, he was notable also for writing about human sexuality with a frankness previously unknown to Yiddish literature. He was also notable among early Yiddish playwrights in having stronger connections to German language literary traditions than Russian.