‎Communism‎

‎Grave, Jean‎

‎DI ABSHTARBENDE GEZELSHAFT UN DI ANARKHYE‎

‎Original Cloth. 12mo. V, 280 pages. 19 cm. First Yiddish edition. With frontispiece portrait of Jean Grave. Translation of ‘Socie´te´ mourante et l'anarchie’ by Rudolf Rocker. Foreword by Octave Mirbeau. ‘Moribund Society and Anarchy’, by Jean Grave, who served a two year jail sentence owing to the contents of this publication. Grave was a leading member of the French Anarchist movement before the First World War, editor of such papers as Le Revolte and Les Temps Nouveaux and producer of anarchist books, novels and plays. Subjects: Anarchism; France; J. Grave. Yiddish Anarchism. Institutional marks on endpages and backstrip, light wear to edges of cloth, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (YID-19-12)‎

‎Bovshover, Joseph‎

‎POETISHE VERKE‎

‎Original Illustrated Wraps. 12mo. 96 pages. 19 cm. First edition. On cover: Y. Bovshover's poezyen. With frontispiece portrait of Bovshover. Poetic Works by Joseph Bovshover, a very early imprint of his poems, published in London by the anarchist Yiddish publisher Frayheyt Group. “Joseph Bovshover (1873-1915) was born in Lubavitch, near Mogilev, White Russia, in a very Orthodox family, but left for America at age 18, and became a furrier in New York. He had a good job but began to write anarchist, revolutionary poems in Yiddish and to read them aloud in his ‘shop. ’ He was fired and worked as a journalist and tutor. He was considered the heir of Edelshtat, who had just died. Bovshover knew English very well and translated his own poetry and published it in English language periodicals. As a result he achieved some fame in the non-Jewish world too, but soon after began to suffer from a mental illness, and entered a mental hospital in 1899, where he remained until his death. His poetry, like Edelshtat's, was anarchist and revolutionary, and became popular throughout the Jewish world. ” (U Texas gottesman) Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Yiddish anarchism – Sweatshop Poets. OCLC lists 11 copies. Light edge wear, with minor tear at corner of front wrap, missing back wrap. Otherwise clean. Scarce. Good condition. (YID-19-27)‎

‎Shulman, Viktor‎

‎HENRIK ERLIKH UN VIKTOR ALTER‎

‎Original Cloth. 8vo. 472 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Title page verso: Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter. A biography of the life, struggles, and martyrdom of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, with large selections from their writings. Commemoration book for the leading Bund activists in interwar Poland; they were both arrested by the soviets during the Hitler-Stalin partition of Poland, both were released from prison for a time, and helped found the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee, but were then rearrested and died in soviet prisons. The editor Viktor Shulman (1876-1951) was also a leading Bund activist, and was editor of the Jewish Socialist daily newspaper "Volkszeitung. " Subjects: Political prisoners - Soviet Union - Biography. Jewish socialists - Poland. Allgemeyner Idisher arbeyterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland Politique internationale. Juifs. Production intellectuelle. Yiddish. Erlich, Henryk, 1882-1941. Alter, Victor, 1890-1941. Light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-19-31)‎

‎Kampf, Leopold‎

‎FARN SHTURM: DRAMA FUN DER RUSISHER REVOLUTSYON IN 3 AKTEN‎

‎Original Wraps. 12mo. 110 pages. 19 cm. First Yiddish edition. Translation of: Am Vorabend. English title page: On the Eve; a Drama in 3 acts. Despite the ban by the Kaiser in 1907, this play was still performed in Germany, and ostensibly was performed in New York as well, as an article from the New York Times of December 1st 1907 indicates. The play concerns a few revolutionists in a Russian town, operating an illegal printing shop, evading police with false passports, and eventually assassinating a Tsarist Governor-General. The benefits of the performances, and possibly of the sales of the play itself were sent as relief funds for Russian Revolutionists imprisoned or in exile. Subjects: Russia – 1905 Revolution – Drama. Yiddish translation. OCLC lists 21 copies. Front wrap lightly soiled, with ink bleeding onto first two pages. Bottom corner lightly bumped, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (YID-19-49)‎

‎Zaks, A. S.‎

‎DI GESHIKHTE FUN ARBEYTER RING, 1892-1925 [VOL. 1 ONLY]‎

‎Original Cloth. 8vo. IV, 438, XXIII pages. 22 cm. First edition. 25te yubileum konvenshon oysgabe. ‘25th anniversary jubilee convention edition. ’ ‘The History of the Workmens Circle, 1892-1925’. Volume one only (of two) . Bound in red cloth with blind-stamped impression of a shirtless proletarian holding a torch up to light the world. The author, Abraham Simchah Sachs (1879-1931) was a contributor to the Yiddish press, and wrote various works on political economy, scientific socialism, and workers struggles. Subjects: Labor and laboring classes - New York. Workmen's Circle (U. S. ) - History. Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring. Institutional marks on endpages and backstrip, shaken front hinge, light rubbing to cloth extremities, otherwise clean. Poor condition. (YID-19-55)‎

‎Workmen's Circle (U. S. )‎

‎FRAYND = FREUND = FRIEND [VOL VI. NO. 5, MAY, 1915]‎

‎Original Wraps. 4to. 192 pages. 26 cm. An early issue of Fraynd: ofitsieler organ fon Arbayter ring (The Friend: Official Organ of the Workmen's Circle) ; founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, at a later juncture, bimonthly. This issue contains various short essays dealing with Y. L. Peretz, political economy, and related matters; the bulk of material concerns the financial and institutional spending and budgets of the Arbeter Ring, with multiple graphs and charts detailing assorted figures (some accounting and charts in English) . Subjects: Jewish socialists - United States - Periodicals. Jews - United States - Periodicals. Fraternal organizations - United States - Periodicals. Labor - United States - Periodicals. Back page wrap absent, light soiling to front wrap, corners lightly bumped, internally fresh and clean. Good + condition. (YID-19-60)‎

‎Reed, John; Moissaye J Olgin‎

‎TSEHN TEG VOS HOBEN OYFGERUDERT DI VELT: VI AZOY DI SOVYETEN HOBEN FARHAPT DI MAKHT IN RUSLAND‎

‎Original Cloth. 8vo. 370 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition. Translation of ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’, the first-person chronicle of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century, by John Reed (1887-1920) . The translator, Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1878 – 1939) came to the United States in 1915, was a major contributor to the Forverts, and then was one of the founders of the Workers (Communist) Party in 1922. When the Jewish Socialist Federation split in 1921, Olgin severed his connections with the Forward. Later when the Federation united with the Communists, he was made one of the organizers of the Jewish section of the Party. He was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party for many years. Olgin was one of the founders of the Yiddish Daily Freiheit (now Morning Freiheit) and served as its editor up to the time of his death. Subjects: Soviet Union - History - Revolution, 1917-1921. October Revolution – John Reed – Yiddish translation. Front hinge starting, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (YID-19-66) xx‎

‎Jewish Socialist Federation Of America‎

‎IDISHE YOHRBUKH; 1915‎

‎Original Wraps. 8vo. 151, [9] pages. 23 cm. Annual periodical, established 1914, and published until at least 1918, of the Yiddish Yearbook for the Jewish Socialist Federation in America; the Yiddish branch of the American socialist party. Other titles of the periodical include: Idisher yohr bukh; Yohr bukh dos naye land. The lead article is a non-sectarian biography with photographs of leading socialist thinkers of the past two centuries, including Robert Owen, Gracchus Babeuf, Herzin, Louis Blanc, Blanqui, August Bebel, Joseph Dietzgin, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Moses Hess, Jean Jaures, Emile Vandervelde, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Peter Lavrov, Friedrich Lasalle, Paul Lafargue, Liebknecht, Karl Marx, Saint-Simon, Engels, Plekhanov, Fourier, Proudhon, Kautsky, and Kropotkin. The following lead article is by Morris Winchevsky commemorating 25 years of socialist Yiddish organizations, Salutski on the Jewish workers movement in 1914, a Robert Ingersoll article on atheism, and other historical, political, and theoretical articles detailing Jewish American Socialism by Morris Hillquit, Moishe Katz, and others. With a detailed ‘freedom (freiheit) calender’, listing important dates and events past and present, and nine pages of back page advertisements for the Forverts, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and pro-socialist bookstores and publishers. Subjects: Socialism - Periodicals. Jews - New York (N. Y. ) - Periodicals. Jewish Socialist Federation of America –Yiddish –Yearbook. OCLC lists 11 copies, but some do not include this volume. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-19-85)‎

‎Rocker, Rudolf‎

‎DI YUGNT FUN A REBEL [VOLUME 2 ONLY]‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 287, [7]; 300, [4] pages. 23 cm. First Yiddish edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Added Spanish title page: Juventud de un Rebelde; added English title page: Youth of a Rebel. Translated by Baruch Tshubinski from the original German manuscript; first published in Spanish translation in Buenos Aires in 1947. Two volume autobiography of the early years of Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) : “The story of Rudolf Rocker is the combined tale of a life and a social movement - a life that reflects with amazing accuracy the development of the anarchist movement and its various nuances. Rocker witnessed anarchism at its height, but he also saw its decline, and ultimate disintegration. During his long years of activity within the ranks of the anarchist movement, Rocker took part in the major stages of its history, from the birth of anarchism in post-Bismarck Germany, through the notorious phase of ‘Propaganda by Deed’ in France and the London battles against the sweating system, until ‘the last cause’ - the Spanish Civil War. A gentile who taught himself Yiddish and Jewish culture, Rocker was for half-a-century the soul of the Jewish anarchist movement, a spiritual teacher, a philosopher, and a preacher. He was the anarchist ‘rabbi, ’ a man who not only talks but also acts on his beliefs. Rocker was the father of the anarcho-syndicalist trend, and his major philosophical contribution, Nationalism and Culture, constitutes to this day one of the most serious attempts to analyze critically the emergence of nationalism, and its relationship to the political state and western civilization. ” (Mina Graur, “An Anarchist Rabbi: The Life and Teachings of Rudolf Rocker”) Subjects: Jewish radicals - Germany - Biography. Jewish anarchists - Germany - Biography. Anarchism - Germany. Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958. Yiddish Anarchism - Buenos Aires. OCLC lists 18 copies. Light wear to backstrip, otherwise fresh. Very good + condition. (YID-20-7)‎

‎(Jt) Trotsky, Leon‎

‎TERORIZM UN REVOLUTSYE‎

‎No date (ca. 1921-1925) . First Yiddish Edition. Original Printed Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 31 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddisn. Sotsyalist Ishe arbaytEr bibliyotEk [nr] 5. “The Jewish Socialist Federation (JSF) was a secular Jewish Yiddish-oriented organization founded in 1912 which acted as a language federation in the Socialist Party of America (SPA) . Many of the founding members of the JSF had previously been members of the Bund in Eastern Europe and sought to bring Bundist politics to the socialist movement in the USA. The JSF split in 1921 over the question of the Bolshevik Revolution, with the organization disaffiliating from the SPA and a minority splitting to form a new organization called the Jewish Socialist Verband (JSV) and remaining affiliated to the SPA. The newly independent JSF soon joined the Workers Party of America (legal arm of the underground Communist Party of America) and merged into a previously-existing Jewish Communist Federation of that organization” (Wikipedia, 2015) . Presumably, this publication dates to shortly after that realignment. SUBJECT(S) : Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938. Communism -- Russia. Revolutions. Terrorismus und Kommunismus. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, LOC) . Rare. Pen mark on cover, some tears at spine, otherwise solid, paper strong, Good+ Condition. (KH-5-18)‎

‎Wasilewska, Wanda [Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya]‎

‎KORYCHNEVYI KHIZHAK‎

‎Original paper wrappers stiff protector. 8vo, 14 pages. 25 cm. In Ukrainian. Title translates to "The Brown Bandit. " A critique of German Fascism. Wanda Wasilewska was a well-known Polish communist and propagandist who worked closely with the Soviet Union during and after WWII. She was appointed as head of the Society of Polish Patriots by Joseph Stalin and was very active in the Soviet-sponsored Polish Committee of National Liberation, which supported Polish inclusion in the Soviet Union. SUBJECT (S) : Fascism -- Germany. World War, 1939-1945 -- Ukraine. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (UC Berkeley, NYPL) . Ex-library with usual markings. Pages are brown. Very Good Condition. (UKR-2-1)‎

‎(Xt) Daykan, Paltiel [Dikshtein]; Eisenstad, Samuel Ed.‎

‎HA-MISHPAT HA-IVRI: RIVON MADA’I‎

‎1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 161 pages. 26 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Jewish Law: Science Quarterly. ” A fascinating Zionist Hebrew journal from the early Soviet period providing insight into the rarely discussed topic of the Jewish legal revival movement that occurred in Palestine during the British Mandate. It deals with practical, modern applications of Jewish law that were, no doubt, highly influential on the development of law in modern Israel. Dikshtein was a leading advocate of creating a legal system based on Jewish law, but fit for statehood. (Likhovski, 2006) . He was a practicing lawyer in Europe before emigrating to Palestine. He was also awarded the Israel Prize for jurisprudence in 1957. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jewish law -- Periodicals. OCLC lists three copies worldwide (HUC, Brandeis, Harvard) , none in New York. Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. Pages are browning, but clean. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-30-39)‎

‎Mill, John‎

‎PIYONERN UN BOYER: MEMUARN [VOL. 1 ONLY]‎

‎Original Cloth. 8vo. 308 pages. 22 cm. First Edition. Volume one only (of two volumes) . With frontispiece portrait of the author, and a dozen black and white photographs throughout. ‘Pioneers and Builders’, the memoirs of Bund activist John Mill (1870–1952) . “John Mill (also known as Yoysef Shloyme Mil) was one of the founders of the Jewish Labor Bund and a central activist during its first two decades. […] He was instrumental in the creation of the Jewish Labor Bund, and indeed was one of 13 activists to participate in its founding congress in Vilna in 1897. As one of the Bund’s main leaders in its first years, Mill held the important position of editor of the main party organ, Der yidisher arbeter. While strictly adhering to orthodox Marxism, he made independent and bold editorial decisions, including the choice to publish articles by the Bund’s rivals such as Khayim Zhitlovski and Rosa Luxemburg. Forced to flee Russia after the wave of arrests that decimated the Bund leadership in 1898, he lived in exile in Geneva, where he established the Bund’s Foreign Committee. Mill was one of the most vocal supporters to encourage the Bund to adopt a national program during debates at the organization’s Third Congress (Kovno, December 1899) . Influenced by Austro-Marxist Karl Renner and the South Slav delegation’s proposal at the Brünn Congress of the All-Austrian Social Democratic Party (Gesamtpartei) in 1899, he held that Russia must be transformed into a multinational state where each nationality would be legally defined as the aggregate of its individual members (rather than on a territorial basis) and granted self-government on cultural matters, a concept later known as national-cultural autonomy. Mill’s efforts bore fruit at the party’s Fourth Congress (Bialystok, May 1901) , when, after several years of heated debates, the autonomist proposal was accepted in principle. Until World War I, Mill lived mostly in Geneva and Paris, in dire poverty, and he continued to lead the Bund’s Foreign Committee in Western Europe. In that capacity, he represented the Bund in the Socialist International and in the party’s interactions with other socialist organizations. Following his emigration to the United States in 1915, Mill settled in Chicago and left active politics, but he remained close to Bundist circles and wrote extensively for Yiddish publications. He died in 1952.” (YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Eruope) Subjects: Jews - Soviet Union - Societies, etc. Labor movement - Soviet Union - Societies, etc. Allgemeyner Idisher arbayterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland. Light wear to cloth, institutional stamps on outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (YID-19-32)‎

‎Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, editor.‎

‎VPERED, NRS 1-18. [ & ] PROLETARII TSENTRALNYI ORGAN ROSSIISKOI SOTSIAL'DEMOKRATICHESKOI RABOCHEI PARTII, NRS. 1-26, BOTH COMPLETE!‎

‎1st edition. Bound in period boards cloth. Folio. Each issue is about 6 pages. In Russian. Vpered and Proletariy bound together. “Vpered” was the first Bolshevik weekly newspaper, published in Geneva from Dec. 22, 1904 (Jan. 4, 1905) to May 5 (18) , 1905, founded after the Mensheviks seized control of the central organ of the RSDLP, Iskra. The first issue alone contained “The Autocracy and the Proletariat” (an editorial) , “On Good Demonstrations of Proletarians and Poor Arguments of Certain Intellectuals, ” ’Time to Call a Halt, ” and other articles by Lenin. The significance of Vpered in the history of the CPSU is defined by the fact that the paper was an ideological-political organ abroad that cooperated with the practical organ in Russia—the Bureau of Committees of the Majority—to give political and organizational shape to Bolshevism (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. 1979) . Vpered articles include: Somneniya Dvuglavago Orla [Doubts About the Double-Headed Eagle] -- Politika Ustupok [Policy Concessions] -- Nachalo Revolyutsii v Rossii [The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia] -- Dolzhni-li My Organizovat’ Revolyutsiyu [Should We Organize a Revolution] -- Bankrotstvo Politseyskago Rezhima [Bankruptcy of a Police Regime] -- Bakinskiy Pogrom [Baku Pogrom] -- Marks ob Amerikanskom “Chernom Peredele” [Marx on American “Black Redistribution”] -- Vozrozhdenie Pravoslavnoy Tserkvi [The Rebirth of the Orthodox Church] -- Rol’ Organizatsiy v Narodnykh Dvizhen’yakh [The Role of Organizations in the People’s Movement]. “Proletariy” was published in Geneva from May 14 (27) until November 12 (25) , 1905, with a total of twenty-six issues during the heights of political and social unrest of the Revolution of 1905. Active in the work of the editorial board were V. Vorovsky A. Lunacharsky, and M. Olminsky. “Proletariy” continued the policy of the old, Leninist Iskra, and maintained full continuity with the Bolshevik newspaper “Vpered. ” Proletariy articles include: Mezhdunarodnoe Znachenie Russkoy Revolyutsii [International Significance of the Russian Revolution] -- Demokraticheskiya Zadachi Revolyutsionnago Proletariata [Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat] -- Noviy Revolyutsionnyy Rabochiy Soyuz [New Revolutionary Workers’ Union] -- Rabochiy Klass I ego Vragi [The Working Class and Its Enemies] -- Russkiy Tsar’ Ischet Zaschity Svoego Naroda Y Turetskago Sultana [Russian Tsar Seeks Protection From His Own People With Turkish Sultan] -- Ocherki iz Revolyutsionnoy Bor’by Zapadno-Evropeyskago Proletariata [Sketched from the Revolutionary Fight of the Western European Proletariat] -- Edinenie Tsarya s Narodom I Naroda s Tsarem [Union of the Tsar and with the People and of the People with the Tsar] -- Pervaya Pobeda Revolyutsii [The First Victory of the Revolution]. Some pages are darkened, particularly at edges, but not fragile. Very Good condition. (RUS-11-10)‎

‎DEVOLDER P.N. O.F.M.‎

‎De communistische propaganda. Theorie, strategie en methode‎

‎320pp. + buitentekstplaten, 24cm., in de reeks "Leuvense bibliotheek voor communicatie-wetenschap", goede staat, G74895‎

‎SCHWARZSCHILD Leopold (DE GENEVRAYE Genevieve, trad.)‎

‎Karl Marx‎

‎400pp., 20cm., br.orig., non coupé, bon état, [texte en français], F72095‎

‎MCKOWN Delos B.‎

‎The Classical Marxist Critiques of Religion: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kautsky‎

‎viii + 174pp., softcover, 24cm., 2 library stamps, else VG, F69664‎

‎SCHUTTE Johannes S.V.D.‎

‎Die katholische Chinamission im Spiegel der rotchinesischen Presse. Versuch einer missionarischen Deutung‎

‎xli + 394pp.with ills., 21cm., in the series "Veröffentlichungen des internationalen Instituts für Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen. Missionswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen und Texte" vol.21, softcover, few stamps, text VG, R69353‎

‎PLEKHANOV Georges (CATHALA Lucia & Jean, trad.)‎

‎Oeuvres philosophiques. Tome II‎

‎851pp. + planches hors-texte, 23cm., reliure toile, F68654‎

‎VERRRIPS Ger‎

‎Dwars, duivels en dromend. De geschiedenis van de CPN (1938-1991)‎

‎xi + 580pp., 24cm., linnen band, stofwikkel, mooie staat‎

‎TURF Jef‎

‎Communist‎

‎110pp., 21cm., in de reeks "Aktueel" nr.23‎

‎CORNELISSEN Igor‎

‎Paul De Groot. Staatsvijand nr.1. Een biografische schets‎

‎248pp.met buitentekstills., 20cm., stofwikkel‎

‎WIEDERKEHR Emile (ed.)‎

‎S.O.S. Tibet. Documents et rapports sur l'oppression du Tibet et la menace mondiale de la Chine communiste‎

‎96pp.avec ills.hors-texte, br.orig., 20cm., bon état‎

‎DUPRE L.‎

‎Het vertrekpunt der Marxistische wijsbegeerte. De kritiek op Hegels staatsrecht‎

‎xvii + 193pp., 23cm., in de reeks "Philosophische bibliotheek", ex-libris van eigenaar op titelpp.‎

‎LEROI Olav‎

‎Sovjet-Bankroet. Twintig jaren geloofsvervolging in het roode rijk‎

‎140pp., cart., 19cm., qqs.cachets, bon état‎