Sabadomingo. 1938 . 5968. Buenos Aires. 1938.

Quarto, (20.8 x 15.2 cm / 8.18 x 5.98 in), 139 p., 3 sheets, index, plus 43 p. Copy 881 of 1000. Cover signed and dated by its previous owner: “R. from Casasbellas, 10/13/54”. In excellent condition, with its original publisher cover.

We read Eliahu Toker in his Introductory Study to Buenos Aires corner Saturday (1): “César Tiempo is in essence (...) the author of a single collection of poems that grew and became richer over the years. A single collection of poems, not only because in each new book of his poems he included the texts of the previous ones, but the titles of his successive installments and the atmosphere that breathe the pages of it give signs of that unity. Beyond those Verses of a ... -which could also be considered from the family- his poetry books refer to a common leitmotif: the metaphor of Saturday. In 1930 appeared that Book  for the Saturday break, which was followed by Argentine Sabbath (1933), Sabadomingo (1938) and Full Saturday (1955). Saturday is the spiritual metaphor of the Buenos Aires Jewish quarter, which he paints with the gray and silent tones of a Rembrandt painting, chiaroscuro that suddenly becomes colored with the irruption of some girls or of a sun that seems to visit very occasionally the ghetto. (...) Tiempo expressed that desire for synthesis (between his Jewishness and his Argentineanness) by combining his Jewish Saturday with Christian Sunday on Sabadomingo, which he titled his third collection of poems (...). Saturday and Sunday are still two different and complementary entities, whose meeting expresses the integrationist desire of Tiempo, (...). One of the highest and most significant moments of the poetic word of César Tiempo is his "Harangue in the death of Chaim Najman Biálik". That death of the greatest poet of the Hebrew Renaissance occurs in 1934 and in Vienna, when Nazism begins to show the sinister face of him assassinating Dollfus, the Austrian Chancellor.

Israel Zeitlin, better known by his pseudonym César Tiempo (Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine, 1906 - Buenos Aires, 1980), was an Argentine writer, journalist, editor, playwright and screenwriter. Although born in Ukraine, he completed his first year of life in Buenos Aires and in 1924 he obtained Argentine citizenship. Tiempo was a fundamental figure of the Argentine intelligentsia, and he became a hero in the Jewish community. He was part of the Boedo Group, which published in the Claridad Editorial and met at the Café El Japanese. When he was barely twenty years old, he published his first book of poems called Versos de una… he was co-founder of the Argentine-Uruguayan publishing house Sociedad Amigos del Libro. In 1930 he obtained the Municipal Poetry Prize. He received the National Theater Award, in 1945 the Municipal Award for Best Cinematographic Book, and was director of the National Cervantes Theater between 1973 and 1975. In 1978 he deserved the Sixto Pondal Ríos Award (corresponding to 1977).

Notes:

1. Introductory study to Buenos Aires corner Sábado, anthology by César Tiempo, composed and annotated by Eliahu Toker, published by the Archivo General de la Nación. Buenos Aires. 1997.

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