The Lead Plates of the Romm Press

This 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.

Typeset in Perpetua and Hebrew Condensed and printed in gray ink on Mohawk Superfine and gray Somerset Velvet. Numbered edition of 90.

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