MAGARAM ELIAZAR EVELYEVICH (1899-1962) Sovremennyj... Lot n° 959

67 pages: illustrations; 20.5x15.5 cm. Illustrations: drawings within the text and period photographs on separate sheets. In publisher's illustrated cover. The cover is detached from the block, cover stains, spine tears, individual pages and illustrations separated from the block. Magaram Eliazar (Eli) Evelyevich (1899-1962) was a writer, journalist, and publisher. He was a political emigrant and journalist for Swiss publications. He collaborated in Odessa with the Socialist Revolutionary publications "Zemlya i Volya", "Krestyanin i Rabochiy", and others. When Odessa was occupied by the Germans, he moved to Tomsk, where he served as secretary of the editorial board of the newspaper "Znamya Revolyutsii", the organ of the Council of Deputies of Western Siberia. After the Czech coup, he moved to Harbin, where he published in the newspapers "Manchuria" and "News of Life". Upon arriving in Shanghai, he edited the newspaper "Shanghai News", which existed briefly. He also published literary almanacs, which involved the first Russian writers of Shanghai.