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1-3. Three postcards handwritten by David Vogel Sent from Vienna to his childhood friend Shimon Polack in New-York and in Detroit, 1923-1924. Vogel writes about his intention to travel to America, about his failing health and his bad financial situation and asks his friend to help him to distribute his book "Lifnei HaSha'ar HaAfel" and sell it in the United States. A postcard from October 1923 reads: "With me there is nothing new. Again the same old worries, worries about material matters which are the cause for trouble and sorrow. No money! No decent apartment and no possibility of relocation, to leave Vienna – and no possibility of concentrating and working. Everything is the way it was before! Sickness and hardship! No way out!" 9X14 cm. Good condition. Creases, tears to corners. Vogel (1891-1944) – lived alternately in Vienna, Paris, Warsaw and other cities. In 1929 he visited Eretz Israel but did not adapt to the country and a year later returned to Europe. He stayed in occupied France during WW II; in February 1944 he was transferred to Germany where he was murdered by the Nazis. Polack was Vogel's childhood friend; in time he became a leading figure in the area of Jewish education in the USA. Their friendship is mentioned in the introduction written by the poet Dan Pagis to "Kol Shirei David Vogel". 4. Lifnei HaSha'ar HaAfel, poems, by David Vogel Vienna: "Machar", 1923. Vogel's only poetry book, published during his lifetime. Dr. Israel Mehlman writes in his essay "Reasons for Rarity of Hebrew Books": "sometimes the books were printed in a limited number of copies limited to poems by poets who were unknown at the time; after years, when the poet gained publicity – during his life or after his death – it became clear that the first edition of his book is scarce, for example David Vogel's Lifnei HaSha'ar HaAfel (Vienna 1923)". (Mehlamn, Genuzot Sefarim, p. 139(. 78, [2] pp, 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, ex-library copy. Cover and title page are worn and partly detached.