KNUT DOVID (1900-1955) Izbrannye stikhi [Selected Poems]. Paris, [1949].

190 pp.; 24 x 16 cm. In the publisher’s illustrated wrapper. In very good condition. Minor rubbing and soiling to the wrapper, incipient split along the rear endpaper. Dovid Knut (David Mironovich Fiksman; 1900-1955) was a poet of the Russian emigration, editor, journalist and member of the French Resistance. He was one of the organisers and the first commander of the clandestine anti-fascist partisan group ‘Armée juive’ (Jewish Army). In 1949 Knut published a large volume of selected poems and the same year left France with his wife and children for Israel. Bibliography: Turchinsky, p. 247.