{"product_id":"the-lead-plates-of-the-romm-press-letter-and-spirit-press","title":"The Lead Plates of the Romm Press - Letter and Spirit Press","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo absolutely thrilled to have this in the shop! From the artist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pocket-sized artist's book contains some reflections, through word and image, on a Yiddish poem by Avrom Sutzkever called \"the Lead Plates of the Romm Press,\" which describes a fictional scene of melting the printing plates used to produce Yiddish and Hebrew books into bullets during the Vilna Ghetto Rebellion. I use this powerful and complicated image of turning words into bullets as a prism through which to consider my own ancestral relationship to the Romms of Vilna, the pain of watching violent nationalism distort Jewish culture, and the complexities of being a Jewish printer during a Jewish genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTypeset in Perpetua and Hebrew Condensed and printed in gray ink on Mohawk Superfine and gray Somerset Velvet. Numbered edition of 90.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"East Toronto Judaica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51123377242390,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/5216\/9494\/files\/IMG_0304.webp?v=1774030129","url":"https:\/\/easttorontojudaica.ca\/products\/the-lead-plates-of-the-romm-press-letter-and-spirit-press","provider":"East Toronto Judaica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}