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(Jt) Grünbaum, Max.
JÜDISCHDEUTSCHE CHRESTOMATHIE: ZUGLEICH EIN BEITRAG ZUR KUNDE DER HEBRÄISCHEN LITERATUR.
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1882. Disbound; 8vo. Xii, 587 pages. Marbled endpapers. In German. Bibliographical citations. Max Grünbaum was a distinguished Munich Orientalist. A Chrestomathy is an aid, by means of prose passages, in learning a language. Contains Medieval Yiddish translations of the Bible. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish language -- Translating into German. Ex-library with minimal markings. Some age staining. Corners of a few pages chipped. Although cover not present, binding is tight. Text in good condition. (GR-07-8)
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(Jt) Lvavi, Jacob
HA-HITYASHVUT HA-YEHUDIT BE-BIROBIG'AN = THE JEWISH COLONIZATION IN BIROBIJAN
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 445, [9], [12] pages. 22 cm. Edition. In Hebrew; one appendix in Russian; added t. P. And introductory matter in English. Folded map attached to lining paper. A history of the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidjan, with detailed sections on immigration and population figures, local and international funding and support for the colonization project, industry, agriculture, forestry, construction, handicrafts, medical services, literature, art, education and culture, Jewish life in the region, and the place of Yiddish. In the series: Sidrat "Galuyot" volume 2. Subjects: Birobidzhan (Russia) - History. Light soiling to cloth and outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-5-43A) Xx
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(JT) Scheiber, Sándor.
JEWISH INSCRIPTIONS IN HUNGARY, FROM THE 3RD CENTURY TO 1686 [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 433 pages. 25 cm. First English edition. With over 100 fascimile reproductions, and detailed catalogue of 154 inscriptions on ritual objects, tombstones, and other materials. Added title page: Corpus inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum, a temporibus saeculi III. , quae exstant, usque ad annum 1686. Revised English version of: Magyarországi zsidó feliratok a III. Századtól 1686-ig. 1960. Sandor Scheiber (19131985) , rabbi and scholar, rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest.
As an editor and publisher, Scheiber took particular interest in Jewish sacred folklore, the history of Hungarian Jewry, and the connections between Hungarian folklore and world literature. He wrote significant works on János Arany and Kálmán Mikszáth, and kept a diary, written in the form of letters to his brother. After 1933, he published as many as 1, 600 works; one of the most important is his Geniza Studies (1981) , summarizing the results of 40 years of research. He also published the Kaufmann Haggadah (1957) , Immánuel Löws Fauna und Mineralien (1969) and Studien zur jüdischen Folklore (1975) , as well as Ignác Goldzihers Tagebuch (Diary; 1977) , the Maimúni Kódex (1984) , the Heller Bernát Emlékkönyv (Memorial Volume; 1943) , the Low Immánuel Emlékkönyv (Memorial Volume; 1947) , and the Ignace Goldziher Memorial Volume II (1958) . (YIVO Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jewish inscriptions - Hungary. Inscriptions, Hebrew - Hungary. Jewish epitaphs - Hungary. Jews - Hungary - Genealogy. Inscripties. Joden. Inscriptions hébraïques - Hongrie. Épitaphes juives - Hongrie. Juifs - Hongrie. Hungary - Genealogy. Hongrie - Antiquités. Clean and fresh in good jacket. Very good + condition. (EE-5-6)
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(Jt) Shulvass, Moses A.
FROM EAST TO WEST; THE WESTWARD MIGRATION OF JEWS FROM EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES?
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 161 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished refugees into Western Europe. Moses Avigdor Shulvass (19091988) , scholar and educator. Born in Plonsk, Poland, Shulvass studied in Berlin. He lived in Erez Israel from 1938 to 1948 and then immigrated to the United States, where he eventually became professor of Jewish history at Spertus College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His publications in many languages include historical studies on Italian Jewry. Of special interest are his books Roma ve-Yerushalayim (Rome and Jerusalem, 1945) ; Hayyei ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance (Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, 1955) ; and his biographical sketch of Samuel David Luzzatto with documentary supporting material, Pirkei Hayyim (1951) . He also published two volumes of essays on various aspects of Jewish history, Bi-Zevat ha-Dorot (In the Grip of Generations, 1960) and Between the Rhine and Bosphorus (1964) as well as Die Juden in Wuerzburg waehrend des Mittelalters (1934) . He also wrote From East to West (1971) , Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe (1975) , and The History of the Jewish People (1982) . (EJ 2008) Subjects: Jews - Germany - History - 1096-1800. Jews - Poland - History. Jews - Migrations. Joden. Migratie (demografie) Migration. Geschichte 1600-1800. Very clean and fresh in VG jacket. Very good + condition. (EE-5-37)
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(Jt) Venetianer, Lajos
ASAF JUDAEUS, DER AELTESTE MEDIZINISCHE SCHRIFTSTELLER IN HEBRAEISCHER SPRACHE [3 VOLUMES IN ONE]
Later Cloth. 8vo. [194] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. 'Asaf Judaeus, the oldest medical writer in the Hebrew language'. A landmark study on the Sefer Asaf, the earliest known Hebrew work on medicine, extant in 16 manuscripts, some complete; it constitutes a source of information on ancient customs and Jewish medical ethics as well as of ancient Jewish remedies and Hebrew, Aramaic, Persian, Latin, and Greek medical terminology. Excerpts from Greek medical books, some of which have been lost and are not known from any other sources, appear in Hebrew in this book. The most complete manuscripts are in Munich, Oxford, Brit. Museum London, Florence, and Paris. The book was not written by Asaph himself, but by his disciples. They mention, as teachers, R. Johanan b. Zavda and R. Judah ha-Yarhoni, as well as Asaph. Some sections of the book are very old, though others were written or translated from other languages as late as the seventh until the tenth century. The antiquity of the work is apparent from its style, similar to that of the older Midrashim, from its use of Persian (rather than Arabic) synonyms, and from the mention of weights current in Palestine during the talmudic period. - EJ 2008. Collection of the three parts of Asaf Judaeus published in the periodical: Jahresbericht der Franz-Josef-Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest; this collection spans the issues 38-40. Other material from the Jahresbericht is contained in the collection (namely, the annual report of the Franz Josef Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest for the years 1915-17) ; however, this bound collection of the Jahresbericht is specifically of Asaf Judaeus. Written by Lajos Venetianer (18671922) , Hungarian rabbi and historian
He edited the publications of the first Jewish medical writers in linguistic and medical-historical respects: Asaf Judaeus (13, 191517) , a work of pioneering importance despite the sharp criticism that Immanuel Loew leveled against it. - EJ 2008. An edition was also published in Strassburg, 1916-1917. Subjects: Jews - Medicine. Asaph ben Berechiah. Later cloth loose; title page of issue 38 loose and edges brittle; later blank endpages are loose and brittle; internal paper with text is clean and fresh. Good - condition. (GER-43-25A)
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(mw) Jacobson, Wolf S.
UEBER DAS KADISH-GEBET [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]
Original Wraps. 8vo. 60 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German. Insribed on title page. An explanation of the Kaddish prayer. The author, Wolf S. Jacobson was a leader of Agudas Yisroel in Berlin between the world wars; he emigrated to Denmark and served as Orthodox Rabbi at Machsike Hadas in Copenhagen; then to Sweden in 1943, and finally to Israel. Subjects: Kaddish. OCLC lists 21 copies. Light soiling to outer edges, overall very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-6A)
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(revue) Yivo Bleter. Journal of the Yiddish Scientific Institute. Volume XXXV.
Yivo Bleter. Journal of the Yiddish Scientific Institute. Volume XXXV.
New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute - Yivo, 1951 8vo, 320 pages. Wpps. (soiled). Yiddish text, english abstracts.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13976669
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HAYNT: YOYVL-BUKH 1908-1938
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. 329 pages. 33cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era imprint. Title translates to Haynt [Today]: Commemorative Book 1908-1938. 30th anniversary edition of Haynt, Yiddish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw between 1908 and 1939, shut down with the invasion of Poland. From its first years Haynt boasted an impressive list of authors and well-known writers such as Y. L. Peretz; David Frishman; Hillel Zeitlin; and Sholem Aleichem, a few of whose novels were serialized. Was one of the two longest running and most important Yiddish daily papers published in Warsaw in the early 1900s (YIVO, 2010) . Offers excellent insight into the interwar Polish Jewish literary and intellectual scene SUBJECTS: Jewish newspapers -- Poland -- Warsaw. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC 60600457) . Ex-library with no markings. Significant repairs throughout. Pages browning. All contents good. (YID-40-75)
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VEKHENTLIKHE LITERARISHE BEYLAGE TSUM "ARBEYTER-FRAYND." NRS 1-52 [COMPLETE, NO MORE ISSUED].
1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 416 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Issues 1-52. Title translates to Literary Suppliment to the Workers Friend. Arbeter Fraynd was a London-based weekly Yiddish radical paper founded in 1885 by socialist Morris Winchevsky. After the emigration of Saul Yanovsky to the United States in 1894, Woolf Wess became the editor in 1895. In 1898, Rudolf Rocker, a German non-Jewish anarchist who had immersed himself into the Yiddish radical culture of London's East End, became the editor of the paper. The paper was suppressed at numerous times by the British government (Wikipedia, 2018) . Prager p125. Also listed in John Pattens Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography Periodicals. SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature - England - Periodicals. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC: 174120785) . Binding repaired and spine rebacked. Paper brown but solid, occational margin wear, Overall good condition. Important. (YID-40-97)
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(Xt) [Y. L. Perets, Mendele Mokher Sefarim, and Avrom Reizen]
A KLAYNE KRESTAMATYE
1st edition. Original paper wrappers in protective cardboard binder. 8vo. 16 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish with some Russian on title page. Title translates to A Little Chrestomathy. Chrestomathy refers to the selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for studying the language. Features passages by Y.L. Perets, Mendele Mokher Sefarim, and Avrom Reizen. SUBJECTS: Yiddish language study. OCLC: 233376695/58407193. OCLC lists three copies worldwide (NLI, YIVO, Harvard). Pages browning. Very good condition. Scarce. (YID-33-4-+)
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(Xt) Aleichem, Sholem
DI YUDISHE FOLKS-BIBLIOTHEK : A BUKH FIR LITERATUR, KRITIK UN VISSENSHAFT [BOUND WITH] YOSILE SOLOVEY
Both 1st editions, bond together (apparently as issued? ) . Original boards. 8vo. 310, 139, 180 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Titles translates to The Jewish Peoples Library: A Book for Literature, Critique, and History and Yossi the Nighingale: A Novel. Sholem Aleichem was probably the most important Yiddish author and playwright. Apart from his own literary output, Sholem Aleichem used his personal fortune to encourage other Yiddish writers. In 188889, he put out two issues of an almanac, Di Yidishe Folksbibliotek ("The Yiddish Popular Library") which gave important exposure to young Yiddish writers. In 1890, after he lost his entire fortune, he could not afford to print the almanac's third issue, which had been edited but was subsequently never printed (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC: 44873369) . Moderate wear to boards. Pages lightly soiled in margins. Overall Very Good Condition. Important. (YID-41-4)
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(xt) Auerbach, Rachel (Rahel Oyerbakh).
OYF DI FELDER FUN TREBLINKE: REPORTAZSH.
Stiff Wrappers, Small 8vo, 109 pages, with an additional [9] leaves of plates (1 folds out). 21 cm. In Yiddish. Added title page: "'Treblinka.' Reportaz". Series: Oysgabe fun der tsentraler Yidisher historisher komisye baym Ts. K. fun poylishe yidn ; number 33. SUBJECT(S): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Pages tanned. Some chipping to edges of wraps. Good Condition. Scarce (HOLO2-57-12A).
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(xt) Cahan, L., editor.
PINKES [PINKOS] FERTLIORIKER ZSHURNAL FAR YIDISHER LITERATURGESHIKHTE, SHPRAKHFORSHUNG, FOLKLOR UN BIBLIOGRAFIE. Four Issues. Band 1, nr. 1-2; 3; 4; Band 2, Nr 1 [COMPLETE SET, NO MORE ISSUED]
New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute [YIVO], American Branch [Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut.; Amerikaner sektsie], 1927-29. Original Wraps, Large 8vo. In Yiddish. Four loose issues. This periodical survived only 2 volumes, ending with vol. 2, Nr. 1 in 1929. A quarterly devoted to the study of Yiddish literature, language, folklore and bibliography. SUBJECT(S): Yiddish philology -- Periodicals. Yiddish language -- Periodicals. OCLC: 122810294. OCLC lists 20 holdings worldwide. Not in Shunami. Binding repaired, good solid copy of this important Yiddish literary and linguistic journal. (CT-15-2A)
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(xt) Cohen, S. I [Shalom ben Jacob]. Translated from Hebrew to English by Joshua van Oven.
SHORSHEI EMUNAH. ELEMENTS OF FAITH FOR THE USE OF JEWISH YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES
5575 (1815) 1st edition. Later Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 10, 10, 2, 2, 56, 56, [1], 6 pages [143 pages total]. Includes the often missing 6-page list of subscribers. The Introduction states that the book was undertaken at the behest of the Rabbi of the Aschkenazic community of London, Solomon Hirschell, together with Raphael di Meldola, Rabbi of the Sephardic community. It also includes the approbation of di Meldola as well as that of Rabbi Solomon ben Zevi Hirsch, the purpose of the work being to protect Jewish children from the inroads of Christian missionaries.The author indicates that the lack of understanding of Judaism among youth is the principle reason why he composed this work. Yet it was intended not just for Jews: Prof. David Ruderman has noted that, "except for its denunciation of Christian missionaries, Cohen's catechism with its English translation, seems to be nothing more than an innocent, uncontroversial presentation of the Jewish faith meant for both Jewish and Christian eyes" (D. B. Ruderman, Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, p. 250). Cohen's work was indeed shared with American non-Jews. The Jewish merchant David Isaacs, in his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, sent the President a copy of the book [see University of Virginia exhibit (2001), To Seek the Peace of the City: Early Jewish Settlement in Charlottesville]. In 1818 Rebecca Gratz offered a copy to her friend Maria Fenno Hoffman, wife of the Attorney General of New York, Ogden Hoffman [see E. Wolf & M. Whiteman, The History of the Jews of Philadelphia, p. 304]. Jacob Marcus Rader lists Cohen's work as one of the Jewish educational books available to Rebecca Gratz when she began operating her Sunday School in Philadelphia [see United States Jewry, 1776-1985, 1-2, p. 393]. A review of this book was printed by Rabbi Yom Tov Benet in his book Tene Bekorim (1767). Shalom ben Jacob Cohen (17721845) himself was a Hebrew writer, poet, and editor. Born in Mezhirech, Poland, he studied German and read the new Hebrew literature, particularly Ha-Me'assef. His first book, Mishlei Agur (1799), was a collection of Hebrew fables in rhyme, with German translation, aimed at teaching Jewish children simple and clear Hebrew. Cohen went to Berlin in 1789 and taught in the Hinnukh Ne'arim school and in private homes. After the publication of several works he renewed the publication of Ha-Me'assef and served as its editor (180911). In 1813 Cohen left Germany, spent a short period in Amsterdam, and moved to London where he tried unsuccessfully to establish a Jewish school. From London, Cohen moved to Hamburg (1816 or 1817), where he spent three controversy-laden years. In a posthumously published poem he attacked the hypocrisy of the "reformists" for their lack of religious belief and national feelings and considered the establishment of the Reform temple in Hamburg an act of blasphemy. However, he refrained from public intervention on this controversy. In 1820 Cohen was invited by Anton Schmid to serve as head proofreader in the Hebrew section of his printing press in Vienna where he remained for 16 years. In 1821 Cohen established the annual Bikkurei ha-Ittim, three issues of which appeared under his editorship. In 1834 he published his poetic work, Nir David, a description of the life of King David, one of the first romantic works in Hebrew literature. In 1836 Cohen returned to Hamburg, where he lived until his death. His last extensive work was Kore ha-Dorot, a history of the Jewish people (1838). His other works include: Mattaei Kedem al Admat Zafon (1807), poetry; Amal ve-Tirzah (1812), an allegorical and utopian drama, a sequel to M.H. Luzzatto's La-Yesharim Tehillah; and Ketav Yosher (1820), a literary miscellany. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 428, no. 2. Vinograd London 205. Roest 283. BE shin 2421; EJ; CD-EPI 0140837. SUBJECT(S): Judaism -- Juvenile literature. Juvenile works. OCLC: 44005964. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide, High quality 18th Century paper and internal binding are in exceptionally good condition a very nice copy. (BR-4-2-B-xr)
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(Xt) Dobrushin, Yekhezkel, ; 1883-1953. Olevski, Buzi, ; 1908-1941. Gordon, Elye, ; 1907-1989.
FAR DER BINE : DERTSEYLUNGEN, PYESN, LIDER
1st edition. Original dramatic constructivist paper covers 8vo, 135 pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title also in Russian on copyright page: Dlia stseny. SUBJECT (S) Yiddish literature. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (LOC, UMaryland, NLI) . Ex-library, but only with bookplate to later boards and faint blindstamp on non-illustarted title page. 1 inch closed tear to illustrated cover, one corner repaired, lacks spine. Paper browning with dampstaining throughout, but staining is not obtrusive on the illustrated cover. Lacks backstrip, otherwise Good Condition thus. (YID-26-10)
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(xt) Eds. Zhitlowsky, Chaim; Niger, Samuel.
DOS NAYE LEBN VOLS I-III, 1908-1911, EACH VOLUME 12 ISSUES [COMPLETE FIRST THREE VOLUMES, 36 ISSUES TOTAL]
1st edition. Mixed period and later boards. 8vo. 745 pages; 550, 16, 24, 24, 24 pages; 690 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to The New Life. The complete first three years of this important Yiddish monthly. Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Includes Zhitlowskys original, first volume, 16 page prologue entitled This program and the dissemination of the monograph The New Life. Some internal binding repair, but solid, paper toning as expected but nice and clean, a Good, solid complete set. (YID-30-8)
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(Xt) Eds. Zhitlowsky, Chaim; Niger, Samuel.
DOS NAYE LEBN. VOL I, NRS 1-12, 1908-1909 [COMPLETE FIRST VOLUME, 12 ISSUES TOTAL]
1st edition. Original binding with leather spine and gold gilt lettering. 8vo. 745 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to The New Life. A complete 1st year of this important Yiddish monthly. Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) .Includes volume title pages and Zhitlowskys 16 page prologue (usually missing) entitled This program and the dissemination of the monograph 'The New Life.' Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. Binding repaired. Pages are clean and good. Good condition. (YID-30-6)
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(Xt) Freid, Meir Jacob
DER PRAKTISHER VEG-VAYZER UN INFORMATOR FUN ERETS-YIS´ROEL.
1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 68 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Practical Guide and Information on Erets Israel. Nazi-era tips for newly arrived Yiddish speakers in Palestine. SUBJECTS: Palestine -- Guidebooks. Middle East -- Palestine. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (YIVO, Harvard, NYBC, JHU, HUC) (OCLC: 19312759) . Ex-library with usual markings. Original wrappers bound in to later library cardboard protector. Some damp stains. Light soiling to wrappers. Dog ears in bottom left margin. (YID-41-61)
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(Xt) Gomez, Isaac
SELECTIONS OF A FATHER FOR THE USE OF HIS CHILDREN.
1st edition. Period full leather with spine label, 8vo, viii, 9-408 pages. Singerman 322; Rosenbach 209. The tipped in recommendation slip sign "Ph. Milledolar, " as noted by BAL, is present. President John Adams wrote of this literary anthology that it was "worthy to be presented by every father to every child, and deserve a place in every family. " Gomez's Jewish affiliation resonates in the book with his decision to include a selection from The History of Pope Pius V, which is the source for the "pound of flesh" incident in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. As opposed to Shakespeare's telling, in the History of Pope Pius V, it is the Jew who is the victim and the Christian who threatens him. Gomez prefaced the selection by writing: "The following subject shows that Shakespeare altered the character of Shylock, making him to be of the Jewish nation, when in reality he was not. " As Louis Harap notes (The Image of the Jew in American Literature, p. 260) , "Gomez was obviously trying to combat the effects of the Shylock stereotype. " Isaac Gomez (1768-1831) , whose great-grandfather had fled from Portugal to New York in 1703, was active in New York's Jewish community. The few early literary contributions by American Jews "was anything but impressive, but Gomez's book is worth remembering as one of American Jewry's earliest literary efforts⦠Gomez, both a devotee of the humanities and a committed Jew, lived comfortably ensconced in the two worlds of the Jew and the cultured American" (J. R. Marcus, United States Jewry, vol. 3, page 455) . See also Blau and Baron, The Jews of the United States, 1790-1840, Vol. II, pages 440-2. The last copy to appear at auction in the US, in 2013, sold for over $1800 (with commissions) . Foxing as expected. All endpapers present, and original period binding remains very handsome. A very good copy in outstanding period binding. (AMR-57-12)
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(XT) Grade, Chaim
TSEMAH ATLAS: DI YESHIVE. BAND 2 [VOL 2 ONLY OF TWO] [WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]
Original Cloth. 8vo. 414 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. The Yeshiva. "The monumental, two-volume novel Tsemakh Atlas (19671968; translated as The Yeshiva) is Grade's richest work about the Musar world and its attempt to shape the ethical personality. Through the memorable character of Tsemakh Atlas, a tortured teacher of Musar who is trapped between its self-abnegating demands, the enticements of the secular world, and his own elemental desires, readers enter a universe of high religious ideals, intellectual and moral debate, and intense spiritual struggle. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. "Grade was one of the rare interpreters of yeshivah life in modern Yiddish literature, recreating the daily life of the yeshivah student with photographic accuracy, objectivity, and affection, and illustrating it with such scenes as rabbis discussing talmudic law, as in the novel Tsemakh Atlas" - EJ 2008. Printed by Shulsinger Bros, New York. Subjects: Yeshiva Yiddish Fiction. Chaim Grade. Light stain and touch of wear to cloth, about Very good condition. (YID-21-50A) xx
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(Xt) Kaluschiner, J. L. Illustrated by Zuni Maud
ARUM MIR [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 122 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Around Me. Includes 10 beautiful Art Nouveau illustrations by Zuni Maud, which are repeated throughout the text. Kaluschiner (1893-1968) , also known as Joseph Leiser, was a Yiddish poet who released five books of Yiddish poetry. OCLC lists 29 copies worldwide (OCLC 40822983) . SUBJECTS: Yiddish poetry - literature. Author inscription from 1922 to the previous owner. Wear to boards. Some damp stains in bottom left of leaves. Overall Good Condition. (YID-40-71-L)
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(Xt) Karpilove, Miriam
A PROVINTS TSAYTUNG
First edition. Period boards. 8vo, 92 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to A Provincial Newspaper. Miriam Karpilove (1888-1956) was one of the most prolific and widely published women writers of Yiddish prose. Her short stories and novels explore issues important in the lives of Jewish women of her generation. Frequent themes are the upbringing of girls and women in Eastern Europe, the barriers they encounter when they seek secular education, and the conflicts they experience upon immigration to North America. (Kellman, JWA, 2016) Over the course of her life, Karpilove lived in Minsk, Palestine, NYC, and finally Connecticut. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Some light water stains to top margins. Overall in Very Good Condition with few markings. (YID-23-13)
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(Xt) Levadi, Solomon
SHVELN, A TRILOGYE [VOL. 3 ONLY]
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 297 pages. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Thresholds: A Trilogy. Levadi (1898 - 1973) was Russian writer. He served in the Turkish army during WWI and was stationed in Palestine. He moved to America in 1921 where his literary career blossomed. In this volume, Levadi designed the title page and included a glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish words that the author used in the trilogy. (Yiddish Leksikon, 2017) . SUBJECTS: Autobiographical fiction. Yiddish fiction. Very light soiling to cloth. Very Good Condition. (YID-40-56-CLX)
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(Xt) Morein, Icik
LETLAND: IR KULTUR, EKONOMIK, MELUKHE ORDNUNG, POLITIK, GEZELSHAFTLEKHKEYT, KURORTN
1st edition. Original paper wrappers inside later stiff pamphlet protector. 8vo. 128 pages with illustrations, portraits, maps; 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Latvia: Her Culture, Economy, Government, Politics, Society, and Resorts. A Latvian tour guide of sorts for Yiddish speakers, printed by the press division of the Latvian foreign ministry. The author hailed from Riga, Latvia where he was a speaker for the press division of the Latvian foreign ministry. He contributed to the Riga Yiddish daily newspaper Frimorgn (Morning) and was the author of a series of Yiddish-language guides to Latvia which the Latvian government published for Jewish tourists from other countries. (Yiddish Leksikon, 2017) . SUBJECTS: Latvia -- Civilization. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (NYPL, LOC, Harvard, HUC, UCL) (OCLC: 19306073) . Ex-library with usual markings. Light soiling to front wrapper. Pages browning with some damp stains in margins. Overall Good+ Condition. Scarce. (YID-40-54)
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(Xt) Pechenick, Aaron; Bar-Ilan, Meir
TSIENIZM UN IDISHKAYT IN SOVET -RUSLAND: A RAYZE IBER'N SOVETN-FARBAND IN 1940 / ZIONISM AND JUDAISM IN SOVIET-RUSSIA
1st edition, original wrappers, 62 pages. In Yiddish, back cover in English. Title translates as, Zionism and Yiddishkayt in Soviet Russia: A Trip Across the Soviet Union in 1940.Holocaust-era Zionist eye-witness account of Jewry in the USSR during 1940, with an introduction by Rabbi Meyer Berlin, or Meir Bar-Ilan. Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in the United States and the British Mandate of Palestine. He inspired the founding of Bar Ilan University in Israel which is named for him. (wikipedia 2018) Heri Karp Ondenk Bibliotek Populere Broshurn-Num. 4-5. SUBJECT(S) : Zionism. Travel. Zionism. Soviet Union -- Description and travel. OCLC: 1011223445, OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Cover is wavy from moisture, rubbed and has some pencil markings, ex library sticker inside cover and blind stamp on title page. Internally very good. Good Condition overall. (HOLO2-141-32)
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(Xt) Provotiner, A
YUDEH HA-MAKABI: HISTORISHE OPERETE IN DRAY AKTN
First edition. Original wrappers featuring a beautiful illustration of Judah Maccabi. 8vo. 24 pages; text is partially vocalized. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Judah The Maccabi: A Historical Operetta in Two Acts. SUBJECTS: Judas, Maccabeus, -161 B. C. -- Drama. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Binding repaired. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-27-41)
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(xt) Rabinovitch, Israel
MUZIK BAY IDN: UN ANDERE ESEYEN OYF MUZIKALISHE TEMES = JEWISH MUSIC AND OTHER ESSAYS ON MUSICAL TOPICS [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]
Publishers Cloth. 4to. 209 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Inscribed in Yiddish by author on front end paper. Written by Israel Rabinovitch (1894-1964) , an accomplished musician and writer, was chief editor of the Montreal Yiddish daily newspaper, the Keneder Adler, from 1924 to 1964.
Following in the tradition of fellow musicologist Professor Abraham Tzvi Idelsohn, whom he greatly admired, Rabinovitch used the Keneder Adler as a platform to share his love for Jewish music, writing widely about it and contributing to the status and knowledge of hazzanut (cantorial arts) in Canada. In 1940, Rabinovitch published the book Muzik bai Yidn (Music by Jews) , which was translated from Yiddish into English by A. M. Klein in 1952 under the title Jewish Music: Ancient and Modern.
Rabinovitch was one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library, a leader in the Labour Zionist group Poale Zion, and also the first president of the Jewish Music Council of Montreal. He passed away in Montreal in 1964. As Cantor Nathan Mendelson of the Shaar Hashomayim wrote in his obituary of Rabinovitch, his song, the song of our people remains eternal. (Le musée interactif du Montréal juif; Israel Rabinovitch) Subjects: Jews - Music - History and criticism. Hingest starting, but solid. Good+ condition. (YID-18-11)
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(Xt) Rabinowitz, Y; Skolnokov, S, Eds.
KANADE: PERYODISH-LITERARISHER ZSHURNAL [VOL. 2, OCTOBER]
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 48 pages, 27 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Canada: Periodical Literature Journal. S Edited by Y. Rabinowitz and S. Skolnikov. The Montreal Jewish community is Canadas second largest and is home to many Canadian Jewish institutions, including the Jewish Public Library of Montreal, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- Canada -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (NYPL, YIVO, JTS, Brandeis, NLI) , none south or west of New York. Ex-library with usual markings. Wrappers are edge worn. Internally Very Good. Overall Good Condition. Scarce. (YID-40-58)
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(Xt) Schwartzbard, Sholom
INM LOYF FUN YORN
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 364 pages, 22 cm. Features illustrations and portrait of Shvartsbard. In Yiddish. Title translates to In the Course of Years. Shalom-Shmuel Schwarzbard (1886-1938) was a Russian-born French Yiddish poet of Jewish descent. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a bolshevik, and is known for his assassination of the Ukrainian national leader Symon Petliura while in Paris. His trial was highly publicized and he claimed to have killed Petliura in retribution for the pogroms in Ukraine. He was eventually acquitted (Wikipedia, 2018) . He was viewed as a hero by many; this work is published by the Shalom Shvartsbard Committee in Chicago. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Ukraine -- Biography. Ex-library with usual markings. Very good Condition. (YID-40-91-X-'fl)
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(Xt) Shemen, N.
TSVISHEN KRIG UN FRIDEN
1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 324 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Between War and Peace. Nachman Shemen was a prominent Toronto rabbi. He was born in Poland and moved to Canada in 1930, where he was a disciple of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart (Gasner, 2012) . SUBJECTS: War. Peace. Politics and government. Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945.Wrappers are soiled with damp stains on first three pages. All contents are good. Overall Good Condition. (YID-40-62-CLX)
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(Xt) Vertinskii, Aleksandr
TSVELF LIDER
1st edition. Original paper wrappers with portrait of Vertinskii on front wrapper, bound into later pamphlet protector.. 8vo. 14 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Twelve Songs. Vertinsky (1889 - 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor of Ukrainian origin who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. He toured extensively throughout Russia and the USSR and appeared in many Russian films. His legacy includes the Stalin Prize and a Soviet astronomer even named a small planet after him. (Wikipedia, 2018) SUBJECTS: Songs, Russian -- Translations into Yiddish. OCLC: 53135253. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Harvard and YIVO) . Ex-library with one faded stamp on front wrapper. Light soiling to wrappers. Contents are clear and very good. Some pages are a bit wavy. Very Good Condition. Rare. (YID-40-55-X-'l) xx
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(Xt) Weichert, Michael
TEATER UN DRAME
Original boards. 8vo. 192, 186 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Theater and Drama. Michael Weichert (1890-1967) was a Galician Jewish theater director, historian, activist, and critic. He directed plays for the Vilner Trupe and published numerous articles on drama and theater history (YIVO). SUBJECTS: Theater, Yiddish. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC:42036360). Title page repair. Pages browning. Overall good condition. (YID-33-15-L-xe)
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(Xt) Wogler, Elhanan [Vigler; Vogler, Elchanon]; Mikhtom, Bentye, Illustrator; Sutzkev?er, Roza [Rokhl], Illustrator.
A BLETL IN VINT: POEME
1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 16mo (small) , 63 pages, 17 cm. Includes portrait of the author (tipped in as published) . A rare Yung Vilne publication. The cover makes use of an interesting period modernist font and design; the title page uses a different but striking constructivist layout and font as well. hil'e getseykhnt? , Roz'e Sutskever ; portret? , Bentye Mikt? Om. Rosa Sutzkever was one of the best-known artists of Vilna, and had trained at the Art Academy there (Bogen, 1991) and was part of Yung Vilna. Yung-Vilne (Young Vilna) , was a Yiddish literary group, introduced in the daily Vilner Tog in 1929 with the headline: Young Vilna Marches into Yiddish Literature. It aroused excitement through its miscellanies (Yung-Vilne, 193436) , its contributions to local and international Yiddish journals, and individual books of verse and fiction. Principal members included poets Chaim Grade , Shimshon Kahan, Peretz Miransky, Abraham Sutzkever , Elkhanan Wogler, and Leyzer Wolf , prose writers Shmerke Kaczerginski and Moyshe Levin, and artists Bentsie Mikhtom and Rokhl Sutzkever. Dozens more were associated with the group, whose members were united by generation, place, a shared humanistic orientation, and the encouragement of local intellectuals like Zalman Rejzen and Max Weinreich . A Yung-Vilne evening in the Vilna ghetto, the participation of several members in the partisan underground, and the accomplishments of Grade and Sutzkever as leading postwar Yiddish writers assure that Yung-Vilne will be remembered as one of the great incubators of Jewish creativity in interwar Poland (Lipzin & Cammy, 2007) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (NYBC, HUC, McGill, TAU) . Title penned on spine, paper toning, touch of wear to corner, about Very Good Condition. Rare, important, and attractive (Yid-29-35)
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(Xt) Zeligfeld, Zimrah; Kipnis, Menahem, compiler.
FOLKS-LIDER : FUN M. KIPNIS UN Z. ZELIGFELD'S KONTSERT? -REPERT? UAR
1st edition. Period boards with original illustrated cover mounted on front, 12mo, 138 + [5] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Complete Yiddish texts printed after each song. Contents: [1]. Folk? S-lider -- [2.] 80 Folk? S-lider. Yiddish folk songs for (medium) solo voice. Menahem Kipnis was "born in Ushomir, Ukraine in 1878. He was a singer, folklore collector, writer and photographer. From 1912 to 1932 he toured Poland, Germany and France, appearing in concerts with his wife Zimra Seligfeld in combined lecture - performances of the Jewish folk songs which he had collected and studied. He published collections of folk songs and songs for children, and was active in the Polish cantors' organization. He submitted a number of his photographs to the Forverts which were published in that newspaper in the 1920's. He died in 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto. " (Guide to the Yivo Archives) . SUBJECT(S) : Folk songs, Yiddish. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Paper browning and fragile as expected. Rear hinge starting, but very usable. About Good- condition. (music-7-2).
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00O [A Yiddish Call to Action for Massive Madison Square Park Anti-Nazi Rally] United Hebrew Trades
FLYER TSU DER FOLKS-DEMANTRATSYE FUN TSER UN TSORN! Translation: ALL OUT TO THE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF GRIEF AND RAGE!
No Place New York Fereynigte Yidishe Geverkshaftn United Hebrew Trades 1944. 1st edition broadside single-sided flyer 4to. In Yiddish. <br> <br> Translation: "ALL OUT TO THE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF GRIEF AND RAGE!<br> Monday July 31st 4:45 PM<br> in Madison Square Park<br> <br> Sisters and brothers!<br> We invite you to participate in the great public demonstration that will take place<br> Monday July 31 4:45 p.m.<br> in Madison Square Park Madison Avenue and 24th Street<br> <br> Millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis in all parts of Europe. Young and old women and men were driven into gas and death chambers and destroyed. In the current hour the greatest danger for those still alive in the Nazi countries.<br> The Hitlerian beast which conquered and humiliated countries and murdered millions of people is ready to strangle and murder the surviving remnants of the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary are now in danger of death the tens of thousands of Jews left alive in Poland in France in Belgium in the Czech Republic where they are under Hitler's rule.<br> <br> In order to express our grief and anger to cry out our grief and appeal for help to the United Nations at the last moment a public demonstration is called by the Rescue Committee of the General Jewish Conference.<br> <br> We cannot and must not remain silent. People must help save the survivors. Come express your feelings desires and demands! It is demanding that the United Nations do everything possible to stop the death march! It is demanded that all those who are guilty of the murders will be brought to justice!<br> The Nazi victims who are now struggling between death and life must know that we are with them.<br> At a conference of representatives of the trade union organizations called by the Jewish Labor Committee it was decided to actively participate in the great national demonstration. We must do everything we can so that the demonstration will be imposing and effective.<br> <br> Leave the store no later than 4 o'clock. Marched to the site of the demonstration in Madison Square Park. Overtime is not allowed on this day.<br> With Trade Union Regards<br> United Hebrew Trades<br> Reuven Guskin President<br> Maurice Tigel Vice-President<br> William Wolpert Executive Secretary"<br> <br> <br> The rally was covered by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency JTA the next day:<br> <br> "Tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews crowded Madison Square Park today at an open-air mass-demonstration in behalf of the Jews of Hungary and other parts of Nazi Europe sponsored by the 64 affiliated agencies of the American Jewish Conference with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee and other national organizations.<br> Speakers at the demonstration included Assistant U. S. Attorney General Norman M. Littell who is secretary of the National Committee Against Persecution of Jews; Dr. Stephen S.Wise president of the American Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Judge Joseph M. Proskauer president of the American Jewish Committee; Henry Monsky president of B'nai B'rith and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Adolph Held president of the Jewish Labor Committee and many other noted Jewish and Christian leaders.<br> The huge mass-meeting in which Jews from all walks of life participated adopted a declaration stating that it is not yet too late 'to save thousands upon thousands' of Jews for the day of liberation. The meeting appealed in the first instance to President Roosevelt and the Government of the United States and through them to the United Nations and to the neutral states." <br> <br> The original JTA covers including a full list of the demands from the rally and other details can be viewed at www.jta.org/archive/huge-open-air-demonstration-in-new-york-demands-rescue-of-jews-from-europe<br> <br> Leading national Jewish organizations organized this July 31 1944 Madison Square Park mass rally to demand Allied action against the Nazi slaughter of European Jews. <br> New York had at the time the world's biggest Jewish population with a Jewish community of around 2 million. The city had hosted numerous similar rallies over the previous decade all focused on building opposition to Hitler and support for the struggling Jews of Europe. <br> <br> Beginning on March 4 1934 "One year after Hitler's ascension to power in Germany tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear the words of Rabbi Stephen Wise. 'Despite the oceanic tragedy which has befallen us' Wise pronounced 'we Jews tonight joining in the chorus of civilization indict Hitlerism as humans as members of civilized society before the high court of human judgment.' <br> Wise's words resonated for audience members attending the rally that March night. Over the course of the evening they heard from a chorus of voices representing the American public self-identifying across different racial religious and ideological lines. Framed as a 'court' the speakers at the rally gathered to indict Hitler for his crimes against civilization an intentionally pointed term that would offend Nazi ideologues claiming to protect civilization through Aryan supremacy. This mock trial was part of a larger trend of American Jewish protest performances staged during the Third Reich that intended to garner support for the rescue of European Jews.<br> On March 27 the AJCongress American Jewish Congress successfully staged a rally titled Stop Hitler Now to an audience of twenty thousand Jews in Madison Square Garden. Outside of the Garden thirty-five thousand people stood protesting and ten thousand more marched through Brooklyn in solidarity. Simultaneous protests also occurred in major cities across the country. The United Press estimated that one million protesters participated in the nationwide demonstration that day. <br> In retaliation to the American uproar Hitler threatened a one-day boycott against German Jewish businesses to be resumed three days later if 'international protests' did not cease. Wise after speaking with Undersecretary William Phillips at the State Department agreed to a brief silence on the matter" Gonzalez Maya. Imagining the "Day of Reckoning": AmericanJewish Performance Activism during the Holocaust. Masters Thesis UMass-Amherst 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33069 <br> We could locate no recorded examples of this flyer anywhere using OCLC ArchiveGrid or a google search. <br> <br> Staple hole in upper right corner margin slight corner loss to lower left margin no text affected in either case light toning about Very Good Condition. Rare and displayable Holo2-163-30. No Place [New York], Fereynigte Yidishe Geverkshaftn [United Hebrew Trades] unknown
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01 [Set Inscrbed by the Yiddish "Poet Laureate of Labor," Morris Rosenfeld, to Fellow Yiddish Poet and Playwright Mark Schweid]
GEVEHLTE SHRIFTEN VOL. 1-3 WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES
Nyu York New York: Forverts 1912. First edition. Original boards 8vo 266 266 268 pages. 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Collected Writings.â€<br> Full set of Morris Rosenfeld’s collected works. Volume 1 contains poetry Volume 2 and 3 contain stories. Warmly inscribed by Rosenfeld in 1913 to Yiddish actor and director Mark Schweid 1891-1969: “To my dearest friend actor and poet Mark Shvayd. From Morris Rosenfeld 3. 2nd i.e. 3 of Feb 1913.†<br> “Rosenfeld known as the ‘Poet Laureate of Labor’ was a pioneer of Yiddish poetry in the US. Born in Russian Poland he came to New York by way of London in 1889 and worked as a presser in a sweatshop. His sweatshop songs were often sung by Jewish workers in factories and at mass meetings. Moshe Starkman notes in the EJ that when his Lider-Bukh ‘The Book of Songs’ 1897 was translated in 1898 by Leo Wiener under the title Songs from the Ghetto his fame spread to non-Yiddish circles. Starkman also notes that ‘his proletarian poems and national songs stirred the Jewish masses during their early struggles in the New World and at the beginning of the Jewish national renascence’ sic. Aaron Kramer notes as well that ‘Of all Yiddish poets Morris Rosenfeld alone.was acknowledged by the non-Jewish literary world as a notable singer;’ Wiener's translation of Songs from the Ghetto ‘immediately established Rosenfeld's reputation among America's literati.†EJ 1971 14: 285-286; Kramer trans: The Teardrop Millionaire and Other Poems 1955.<br> Mark Shveyd Schweid 1891-1969 to whom Rosenfeld inscribed this copy was a “playwright poet translator and artist born in Warsaw. His original Jewish given name was Volf-Mortkhe.…in 1911 he graduated from a Polish drama school in Warsaw and went on to act in Yiddish theaters and on the Polish stage as well. In 1911 he emigrated to the United States performed in New York’s Yiddish theaters and from 1921 was one of the principal artists in Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater. From 1926 he was also acting on the English-language stage.<br> He wrote poetry drama studies one-act plays plays and longer articles on theater. He debuted in print in 1907 with poems in Roman-tsaytung….From 1946 he was an internal contributor to Forverts Forward in New York.<br> Shveyd wrote adapted or translated roughly fifty plays†as well as 9 books. <br> “Shveyd also translated novels from Polish Russian German and English some of which were published such as: Israel Zangwill Troymers fun’m geto Dreamers of the ghetto vol. 1 New York: M. Yankovitsh 1929 341 pp.; Stanislaw Przybyszewski Fun’m obgrund Out of the depths original: De Profundis New York n.d. 79 pp.; Fyodor Dostoevsky Erniderigte un baleytigte Humiliated and insulted original: Unizhennye i oskorblennye New York: Max Jankovitz 1920s 2 vols. Two novels he adapted were published in Warsaw’s Moment†Yekhezkl Lifshits in Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur.<br> Schweid was director of the Bronx Art Theatre in 1930-1931; a partial collection of his papers is at the Center for Jewish History in New York. SUBJECTS: Yiddish language. Yiddish poetry. Short stories Yiddish. OCLC: 3758034<br> Vol I with inscription has unobtrusive number on spine and old Yiddish institutional stamp at bottom of inscribed endpaper with gutter taped at contents page. Otherwise a Very Good Condition set with important inscription. YID-46-36--’cc. Nyu York [New York]: Forverts unknown
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05 [The Leading Yiddish Humor Magazine of the Early 20th Century] Tunkel, Yosef & Jacob Marinoff, editors
DER KIBITSER. AND DER GROYSER KIBITZER AND DER GROYSER KUNDES. VOL I NRS 1-27 DEC 15 1908--DEC 27 1909 27 ISSUES. COMPLETE FOR VOLUME I
New York: Ferlag "Kibets 1909. 1st Edition. Original publisher’s binding Folio newspaper. Complete first volume Starting with Vol I Nr 1 of “Der Kibitser†Dec. 15 1908 renamed and renumbered first as Vol I Nr 1 Jan 22 1909 of “Der Groyser Kibetser The big kibetzer†with the following issue of Feb 5 numbered as "3" to correctly follow from the first issue and then with Vol I Nr 6 March 19 1909 onward as “Der Groyser Kundes The Big Stick†or “The Big Prankster.†Incidentally the other set of this volume we examined also did not have a Nr 2 so we are confident this is complete as issued. <br> One centerfold cartoon by Zuni Maud see image features "Der Kaptialistisher Tayfel"--the Capitalist Devil–holding back a "mother" by the hair to stop her from interfering as "baby's milk-bottle" is drained off by the "milk-trust" cat. <br> The caption reads "The Capitalist Devil: - to the mother: Never mind madam all in English in Hebrew letters you go to the factory the milk-trust will take good care of your baby."<br> This cartoon-laden periodical was a New York City Yiddish language satirical bi- weekly which ran from 1908 until 1927.<br> The humor paper was issued biweekly this volume for its first 20 months and then weekly after that. OCLC also references another Vol I Nr 1 from April 15 1908 a special S´imhes` Toyreh Simchas Torah issue but this may have been a one-off. <br> Founded by the humorist Yosef Tunkel or Der Tunkeler his pen name meaning 'The Dark One' the paper was taken on by Jacob Marinoff when Tunkel left to work for an established paper in Warsaw. The paper consciously set itself up in opposition to the serious Yiddish-language press of the time such as the socialist Forverts.Naturally more traditional religious Judaism did not escape its satire: The later 1915 "Christmas" edition included a parodic conversation between Jesus and the prophet Elijah. <br> Despite its irreverent attitude to everything it also published poetry by Di Yunge "The Young Ones" poets such as Moyshe-Leyb Halpern and Zuni Maud. At its height it had a circulation of 35000 but folded in 1927 due to flagging sales. Der Groyer Kunds is highlighted in this recent talk by Yiddish comics scholar Eddie Portnoy on the reactions in the Yiddish press to restrictions on Jewish immigration to the US: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/archival-recordings/recorded- programs/ybcr-nybc-ybcr-1048/door-slams-shut-reactions-yiddish-press-immigr ation .<br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish wit and humor -- Periodicals. OCLC: 28297536. Most holdings appear to be fragmentary and do not include these issues. Issue 18 with torn cover. In final issue the bottom margin suffers some loss to the final leaves none to the dramatic front cover though. Damaged boards are loose and most issues are coming loose though the quality paper used has remaind strong and bright much better than standard newsprint would have. Important graphic Yiddish humor from the great migration period. Dramatic and displayable! BK5 YID-43-9A-LEX. [New York]: Ferlag "Kibets unknown
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09 [3 Issues of an Early US Yiddish Monthly] [Dolitzky, M M; (Menahem Mendel)]
DI TSAYT. MARCH 1898 NO. 5 TYPO MISPRINTED AS '1889'; APRIL 1898 NO. 6; JULY 1898 NO.8 THREE ISSUES
New York: N.M. Shaikewitz 1898. First edition staple binding 4to 29-31 pages each issue 30 cm. In Yiddish. <br> Three issues of Di Tsayt a monthly Yiddish language publication published in New York. The journal ran from 1897-1898. Singerman S582; Freidus p. 282 Weissberger 56. <br> "Menahem Mendel Dolitzky was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet and novelist. Born in Bialystok he received a traditional Orthodox education and as a teenager became interested in the ideas of the Haskalah.He served as a Hebrew teacher in various towns and in 1881 was an eyewitness to pogroms in southern Russia which had a profound effect on him.<br> .In 1892 when the Jews were expelled from Moscow Dolitzki emigrated to New York and was warmly received by the small band of Hebrew maskilim in the U.S. He began publishing descriptions of the persecution of Jews in Russia in the journal Ha-Ivri mainly in poetic form.Despite the efforts of the Hebraists in the U.S. to assist him he found no way of making a living from Hebrew writing. After working at various jobs he finally took up writing for the daily Yiddish press turning out serialized novels which catered to the popular reader" EJ. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- New York State -- New York -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 50546431. OCLC and Singerman together locate 4 complete holdings Harvard NYPL YIVO HUC and one of vol I only Yale. <br> <br> Lacks original outer paper wrappers some toning Good Condition Scarce YID-48-109. [New York: N.M. Shaikewitz] unknown
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11 Federal Writers' Project (New York, NY); Yiddish Writers' Group (New York, NY) N Y N Y
DI IDISHE LANDSMANSHAFTEN FUN NYU YORK. THE JEWISH LANDSMANSCHAFTEN OF NEW YORK
Nyu York New York: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn 1938. First edition. Original printed leather binding 4to 397 3 pages. Includes illustrations and facsimiles. 29 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Jewish Mutual Aid Societies of New York.â€<br> Research project led by the Works Progress Administration which contains articles about the history and activities of Jewish mutual aid societies in New York. Contains reviews of landmanshaft publications as well as a directory of all landsmanshaftn in the New York. <br> “Landsmanshaftn are societies formed by Jewish immigrants from the same villages towns and cities in Central and Eastern Europe. The landsmanshaft became a dominant form of Jewish social organization in the late 1800s. The many types of landsmanshaftn include religious and socialist organizations as well as American-style fraternal orders. Landsmanshaftn provided immigrants with formal and informal social networks and members helped one another with financial needs such as medical care and burial plots. In 1938 a Federal Works Progress Administration WPA project identified 2468 landsmanshaftn in New York City. The number of landsmanshaftn began to decline in the 1950s though some societies continue to exist today.†Center for Jewish History<br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- New York State -- New York. Fraternal organizations -- New York State -- New York. Jews. OCLC: 1018012020.<br> Wear to spine and inside hinges Good Condition. YIZ-23-32S-CCLEX. Nyu York [New York]: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn unknown
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13 [The First Yiddish Book Published in Malden, MA]Levin, Yisrael [Israel], compiler
LIEDER FUN A VOLONTIR
No Place Malden MA: Maldener Relief Komite 1919. No Date 1919. 1st Edition. Original printed paper wrappers 8vo 14 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Verses of a Volunteer.†No city or date listed but clearly published during or immediately after WW I with the Leksikon suggesting Malden MA 1919 OCLC suggests Boston the location of the printer and a clearly incorrect date of 1900 perhaps intending "1900s". Malden the poet’s home town just outside of Boston and clearly the home of the "Maldener Relief Komite" makes much more sense making this is the first documented yiddish publication in Malden MA north of Boston.<br> "The poet dedicated the entire income of 5 thousand copies to the brothers suffering from hunger in the countries at war†Translated from the front cover. Includes 4 poems: Der Volontir; Ikh Zukh a Vort; Nach der Milhome; Hazkharot Neshimot. The final poem is “in memory of the fallen Jewish heroes in all the war-torn lands.â€<br> Israel Levine 1878-1970 “was born in a village in Minsk district Byelorussia. In 1895 he arrived in the United States lived in various cities worked as a teacher in Talmud Torahs and was secretary for Mizrachi in the town in which he lived Malden Massachusetts. <br> He debuted in print in 1904 in Fraye arbeter-shtime Free voice of labor in New York with a poem entitled ‘Funken shpritsn’ Sparks fly and from that point he went on to contribute poetry and translations from Tanakh and from ethical books to: Yidishes tageblat Jewish daily newspaper Forverts Forward Dos yudishe folk The Jewish people Di varheyt The truth and Idisher kemfer Jewish fighter—in New York; Idishe shtime Jewish voice in Boston; and more. He published in book form: Lider fun a volontir Poems of a volunteer Malden 1919 16 pp.; Sefer naim zemirot tehilim Naim Zemirot on Psalms translated into a poetic form with short prefaces by Dr. Meir Vaksman and Aharon Kaminska Jerusalem 1934 19 pp†Khayim Leyb Fuks in Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur<br> OCLC: 19307496. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide YIVO Brandeis Harvard NYBC none outside the northeast. A few stains & discoloring Very Good Condition an excellent copy. Scarce. B YID-45-9XX-LE-’. No Place [Malden, MA]: Maldener Relief Komite unknown
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15 · [1st Yiddish Edition of Kropotkin's Most Important Work in Exile] Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich
VERTER FUN A REVOLUTSYONER
London: "Arbayter fraynd 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards 8vo xiii 426 pages 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.â€<br> Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.†Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references.<br> “During his long exile Kropotkin wrote a series of influential works the most important being ‘Paroles d’un révolté’ 1885; “Words of a Rebelâ€.Kropotkin’s aim as he often remarked was to provide anarchism with a scientific basis. In Mutual Aid which is widely regarded as his masterpiece he argued that despite the Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest cooperation rather than conflict is the chief factor in the evolution of species. Providing abundant examples he showed that sociability is a dominant feature at every level of the animal world. <br> Among humans too he found that mutual aid has been the rule rather than the exception. He traced the evolution of voluntary cooperation from the primitive tribe peasant village and medieval commune to a variety of modern associations—trade unions learned societies the Red Cross—that have continued to practice mutual support despite the rise of the coercive bureaucratic state. The trend of modern history he believed was pointing back toward decentralized nonpolitical cooperative societies in which people could develop their creative faculties without interference from rulers clerics or soldiers.â€<br> SUBJECTS: Anarchism. OCLC: 19303211.<br> Ex-library with early 19th Century left-wing library markings see photos. Good- Condition YID-48-41-LXCCGG-’e. London: "Arbayter fraynd unknown
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16 · [Radical Yiddish Theater Celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary] Artef Jubilee Committee
TSEN YOR ARTEF: AROYSGEGEBN TSUM TSEN-YORIKN YUBILEY FUN ARTEF
New York; Posy-Shoulson Press 1937. 1st edition. Original Wraps. 4to. 4 171 2 23 pages. 28 cm. In Yiddish with English section and title page: Ten years Artef; published for the tenth anniversary of the Artef March 1937. <br> Extensively illustrated publication for the tenth year anniversary of the radical Yiddish theatre company Artef:<br> "the radical Yiddish dramatic troupe based in New York during the heyday of the Yiddish theater in America. Begun in the mid-1920s as a study group of amateur worker-actors at one time there were nine separate studios with over 120 students in the 1930s the troupe went professional putting on at least two and often three new plays per season. With such plays as Jacob Mostel 's Strike Shmuel Godiner 's Jim Kooperkop Avrum Vevioka 's Diamonds and Maxim Gorky 's Egor Bulychev and Dostigaev and Others Artef spread propaganda to the masses. Ideologically Artef was far left; its hope was a Communist society here in America. As a troupe its role was 'agit-prop' to agitate and propagandize to serve as the cultural representative of radical workers. In fact most of its tickets were pre-sold through worker unions and at least in its early years Artef gave presentations at political events.<br> Its first large-scale production was Mass Play and Ballet of the Russian Revolution which appeared at the Lenin memorial celebration in Madison Square Garden on January 21 1928. <br> Artef 's greatest artistic and commercial successes were connected with the talented productions of director Benno Schneider. Schneider who had been active in the Zionist Habima troupe in Moscow wed aesthetic excellence to revolutionary ideology with his interpretation of Aristocrats an adaptation of Sholem Aleichem 's Mentshn. Incidentally Schneider earned such a positive reputation with Artef that he received offers to direct on Broadway a promotion that cost the radical Yiddish theater dearly. <br> The end of the Artef was gradual and its causes were closely associated with the reduced role of Yiddish in American life. But there were bright lights before the darkness. During the 'days of the Popular Front ' when the Communists formed associations with less radical leftist parties the Artef attracted a larger audience which led to an optimistic expansion that later was responsible for huge financial losses. The darkness occurred at the end of the thirties when the number of Yiddish speakers began to diminish. The last performance of the Artef was on July 7 1941." Review by Dr. Brian Horowitz of 'Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef 1925–1940 ' written by Edna Nahshon. <br> Many of the actors and directors in Artef went on to establish solid careers on Broadway Hollywood and for those blacklisted overseas. <br> Bound in brown velour wraps with gilt title. Heavily illustrated. <br> Subjects: Arbeiter theatre verband New York. Jewish theater. Theater - New York State - New York. Artef - Anniversaries etc. <br> OCLC: 19310798. <br> Light wear to edges of wraps otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. B YID-22-9-LEBWW. New York; Posy-Shoulson Press unknown
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20 [Josef in Egypt--in Yiddish] Melamed, Hirsch [Hirss Melameds]
KNAAN UN MITSROYIM: ROMAN KNEN. KANAANA UN EGIPTE. xt
Rige Riga: Yungbukh 1930. 1st edition. Period boards with original covers bound in. 8vo. 157 pages 21 cm. In Yiddish with Latvian "front" cover and title page at rear. Title translates as "Canaan and Egypt: A Novel." <br> Wonderfully illustrated cover bound in featuring cartoonish drawings of Canaanites and Egyptians. Two volumes in one: 1. Yoysef in Mitsroyim and 2. Yosef der reter fun Mitsroyim. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish fiction. OCLC: 503648109. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide including copies of an undated edition which we assume to be a later reprint. <br> <br> Ex-library with usual marks. Paper brown and somewhat fragile old dampstain to lower edge of boards extending into margins of first and last leaves. Original bound-in covers have come loose. Good condition thus. B YID-33-27-L-'ccex. Rige [Riga]: Yungbukh unknown
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22 [Two Complete Cold-War Years of a US Children's Yiddish Magazine] Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute
KINDER ZSHURNAL 1956-1957. 12 ISSUES: JANUARY 1956 NO. 1; FEBRUARY 1956 NO. 2; MARCH 1956 NO.3; APRIL 1956 NO.4; OCTOBER 1956 NO.5; DECEMBER 1956 NO.6; JANUARY 1957 NO.1; FEBRUARY 1957 NO.2; MARCH 1957 NO.3; APRIL 1957 NO.4 COMPLETE FOR 1956 AND 1957
New York: Shalom-Alekhem folks shuln 1957. ; First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers bound by year into later paper outer wrappers for each yearly volume 4to each issue contains 18 pages includes illustrations. 26 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "Children's Journal."<br> All published copies of the famous Yiddish children's magazine Kinder Zhurnal from 1956 and 1957 during the Cold War. Six issues per year. <br> "Kinder zhurnal a children's magazine was in existence from 1920 to 1981. Its first editor Shmuel Niger served from 1922 to 1948. The magazine published works by writers such as Mani Leib Aleph Katz Jacob Glatstein Kadia Molodowsky. Farlag Matones was established in 1925 as a publisher of children's books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha Jacob Glatstein Chaim Grade Moses Moyshe Leib Halpern Leibush Lehrer Isaac Bashevis Singer Hillel Zeitlin Aaron Zeitlin. Lippa Lehrer was the manager and leading figure of both organizations and was editor of Kinder zhurnal for a number of years." YIVO<br> SUBJECTS: Children's literature Yiddish -- Periodicals. Children's literature Yiddish. OCLC: 10158059<br> Outer blank paper wrappers faded with light rusting to staples but issues themselves remain in Very Good Condition. YID-48-104-GGLEX-'cc. New York: Shalom-Alekhem folks shuln unknown
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23 South African Yiddish Cultural Federation
DOREM AFRIKE AFRIKA: NRS 184-186 VOL 21 NR 6 NOV/DEC 1968-VOL 22 NR 2 MAR/APRIL 1969; 3 ISSUES TOTAL
Yohanesburg Johannesburg South Africa: Dorem Afrikaner Yidisher Kultur Federatsye 1990. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. Approximately 32 pages each 23 cm. In Yiddish withs some English advertisements. Title translates to "South Africa." South Africa's most well-known Yiddish journal published in Johannesburg from 1948-1991. Interesting period covered here the tumult of the late 60s. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Periodicals. OCLC: 01800240. Very Good Condition.Price per issue please specify YID-33-48AXX-EL. Yohanesburg [Johannesburg, South Africa]]: Dorem Afrikaner Yidisher Kultur Federatsye unknown
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33 [New York] Federal Writers' Project (New York, NY); Yiddish Writers' Group (New York, NY) N Y N Y
DI IDISHE LANDSMANSHAFTEN FUN NYU YORK. THE JEWISH LANDSMANSCHAFTEN OF NEW YORK
Nyu York New York: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn 1938. First edition. Original printed leather binding 4to 397 3 pages. Includes illustrations and facsimiles. 29 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Jewish Mutual Aid Societies of New York.â€<br> Research project led by the Works Progress Administration which contains articles about the history and activities of Jewish mutual aid societies in New York. Contains reviews of landmanshaft publications as well as a directory of all landsmanshaftn in the New York. <br> “Landsmanshaftn are societies formed by Jewish immigrants from the same villages towns and cities in Central and Eastern Europe. The landsmanshaft became a dominant form of Jewish social organization in the late 1800s. The many types of landsmanshaftn include religious and socialist organizations as well as American-style fraternal orders. Landsmanshaftn provided immigrants with formal and informal social networks and members helped one another with financial needs such as medical care and burial plots. In 1938 a Federal Works Progress Administration WPA project identified 2468 landsmanshaftn in New York City. The number of landsmanshaftn began to decline in the 1950s though some societies continue to exist today.†Center for Jewish History<br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- New York State -- New York. Fraternal organizations -- New York State -- New York. Jews. OCLC: 1018012020.<br> Slight wear on spine. Good Condition. YIZ-23-32S-CCLEX. Nyu York [New York]: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn unknown
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35 [Written in the Lodz Ghetto; Featured in the Yiddish Book Center's Exhibit] Szajewicz (Shayevitsh), Simhah Bunam Araynfir un
…LEKH-LEKHA…sic. LECH LECHA LECHO LEKHO
Lodzsh: Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye baym Tsentral-Komitet fun Poylishe Yidn 1946. 1st edition. Later cloth with original dramatic photgraphic cover mounted on front 8vo 70 1 pages 1 l. includes facsimiles. 21 cm. Poems. "Oysgabes fun Der Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye baym Tsentral-Komitet fun Poylishe Yidn. Serye yidishe literatur 1." <br> A committee dedicated to recording the fate of Polish Jews published this book length poem by Simkhah Szajewics. Written in the Lodz Ghetto it appeared immediately after the war in 1946; Szajewicz perished in a concentration camp in 1944" from the permanent exhibit at the National Yiddish Book Center which houses their copy in their Rare Book Collection. <br> The book actually includes two long poems: "Lekh-lekha" and "Friling 702 " as well as letters and other related material. <br> See David Roskies interesting reflection on this work and it's stunning photographic cover at jtsa.edu/torah/go-forth-the-grammar-of-remembrance. <br> For more about the author-poet see Chava rosenfarb's essay on Shayevitch in Tablet Magazine at tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-last-poet-of-lodz. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Lódz. Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Poetry. Jews -- Correspondence. Expertly rebound in attractive black cloth with the original photographic front cover mounted on the front. Very Good Condition. B HOLO2-110-36-CCALX-'emm H-40-10. Lodzsh: Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye baym Tsentral-Komitet fun Poylishe Yidn unknown
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36 [A Rare Soviet Yiddish Literary Journal Edited by Itsik Fefer] Fefer, Itsik, editor; Alukraynisher Orgkomitet fun di Sovetish
FARMEST: LITERARISH KINSTLERISHER UN KRITISH-BIBLIOGRAFISHER ZSHURNAL. 1935: NOS. 11-12 NOV. DEC. ; 1936: NO. 2 FEB; 1937: NOS. 3-5 & 12 MARCH APRIL MAY DEC. 7 ISSUES TOTAL
Kharkov: Ukrmelukhenatsmindfarlag 1937. First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers 8vo issues range from 129-196 pages each. Includes illustrations. 21-23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates roughly as “Challenge: A Literary Artistic and Critical Bibliographical Journal.â€<br> At the time the only Yiddish literary periodical in Ukraine.<br> Farmest 1933–1937 was a monthly Yiddish literary magazine published in Kharkhiv Ukraine by the Ukrainian Committee for Soviet Writers. “Edited by the poet Itsik Fefer 1900–1952 it was continued in Sovetishe literatur: Literarish-kinstlerisher un kritish-bibliografisher zhurnal Soviet Literature: Literary-Artistic and Critical-Bibliographical Journal; 1938–1941.<br> In 1927 Fefer was a founding member of the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Union of Proletarian Writers and from 1928 one of the editors of its Kharkov-based journal Prolit Proletarian Literature. He also coedited the nonproletarian Kharkov journal Di royte velt The Red World from 1929. From 1933 to 1937 he edited the Kiev periodical Farmest Challenge; known as Sovetishe literatur Soviet Literature between 1938 and 1941 which replaced Prolit and Di royte velt and was thereafter the only Yiddish literary periodical in Ukraine.†YIVO. Avrom Gontar was also involved in the collective and editorial committee. <br> The editor Itsik Fefer 1900–1952 “began writing poems in 1918 and in 1922 joined Vidervuks New Growth in Kiev a group of young Yiddish literati whose mentor was Dovid Hofshteyn. That same year the appearance of Fefer’s small collection Shpener Splinters established him as a rising literary star. His poetry amalgamated the Kultur-lige poets’ revolutionary romanticism with the propagandist objectives of the workers’ movement.<br> Fefer was known for his literary credo of proste reyd simple speech a concept he formulated in 1922. In the early 1920s poetry particularly avant-garde poetry swamped the literary pages of Soviet Yiddish periodicals. This phenomenon worried editors and critics who were wary of the fact that Yiddish readers usually could not identify with this style of literature. All Yiddish readers by contrast could understand Fefer’s proste reyd.<br> In 1927 Fefer was a founding member of the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Union of Proletarian Writers and from 1928 one of the editors of its Kharkov-based journal Prolit Proletarian Literature. He also coedited the nonproletarian Kharkov journal Di royte velt The Red World from 1929†Gennady Estraikh.<br> For more see: Gennady Estraikh “The Kharkiv Yiddish Literary World 1920s–Mid-1930s†East European Jewish Affairs 32.2 2002: 70–88; Chone Shmeruk “Yiddish Literature in the U.S.S.R.†in The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917 ed. Lionel Kochan pp. 242–280 London and New York 1970.<br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- Ukraine -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 35051038.<br> Some pages brittle some wear to spines. Overall Good Condition. Rare. YID-46-2-LGG-’excc. Kharkov: Ukrmelukhenatsmindfarlag unknown
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36 [Two Runs of an American Communist Yiddish Anti-Fascist Monthly] American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists
EYNIKAYT /AYNIKAYT / AINIKAYT NEW SERIES 1945 VOL II NRS. 1 & 2 JAN AND FEB 1945 2 ISSUES
New York Der Komitet 1945. Paperback. 1st edition. Paper Wrappers Folio Road Atlas size 35 cm 32 pages. "Unity." <br> Yiddish Communist bimonthly from May 1944-Jan 15 1945 then monthly through 1947 for writers artists and scientists a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. <br> "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike." Preceded by periodical of the same name also published in New York in 1942. Important issues from the early post war period. <br> <br> SUBJECTS : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. <br> <br> January issue missing front cover which is pages 1-2; February issue has detached covers but complete. Good strong white paper. Good Condition Thus B Y-37D. New York, Der Komitet paperback
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39 [A Yiddish Literary Journal Edited by IL Peretz] Peretz, Isaac Leib (editor) [IL; YL] I L I L Y L
DI YUDISHE BIBLIOTEK: A ZSHURNAL FIR LITERATUR GEZELLSHAFT UN EKONOMYE VOLUME 3 ONLY
Warsaw: Izdanie I.L. Perets 1895. First edition period boards 8vo 179 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Jewish Library: A Journal for Literature Society and Economics.â€<br> Third volume of semiannual publication edited by I.L. Peretz. Di Yudishe Bibliotek was published periodically between 1891 and 1904. This issue includes belle-lettres poetry and scientific essays.<br> “To encourage Jews toward a wider knowledge of secular subjects Peretz for several years wrote articles on physics chemistry economics and other subjects for Di yudishe bibliotek which he also edited.†Encyclopedia Britannica.<br> Yitskhok Leybush Peretz 1852-1915 is one the best known Yiddish and Hebrew authors of the 19th century. Peretz was one of the three classic Yiddish writers with S. Y. Abramovitsh and Sholem Aleichem and the founder of Yiddish modernism. In the first decade of the 20th century he was at the center of an active literary circle in Warsaw. <br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 992802478. <br> Ex-library with usual markings and normal wear and age to pages but otherwise in good condition. Good Condition. YID-46-19-GGLEX-’cc. Warsaw: [Izdanie I.L. Perets] unknown
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