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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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Shochat, Azriel
MOSAD "HA-RABANUT MI-TA`AM" BE-RUSYAH: PARASHAH BE-MA`AVAK-HA-TARBUT BEN HAREDIM LE-VEN MASKILIM
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 200, XIII pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew with English summary. Added title page: The Crown Rabbinate in Russia; A Chapter in the Cultural Struggle Between Orthodox Jews and Maskilim. The Crown Rabbis of late imperial Russia held the government-mandated designation of rabbi, but their functions as record keepers, Russian administrative representatives, and sometimes Jewish communal (but secular) leaders belied the religious title.
the opening of government-sponsored rabbinical training seminaries in Vilna and Zhitomir in 1847
these schools reflected the practical ideals of the maskilim, who emphasized the need for religious leaders to have a strong secular education.
the crown rabbinate outlasted the crown rabbinical schools. On the one hand, the increasingly influential maskilim and other progressive Jews promoted the notion that a rabbi should embody worldly ideas and guide his community in the social, economic, and intellectual components of the Haskalah. Orthodox Jews, on the other hand, wanted only a traditional spiritual rabbinate. By the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who should be empowered with the religious representation of, and authority over, the Jewish communities in Russia had turned into a heated debate that played itself out in the Russian Jewish press and at various meetings of rabbis and the intelligentsia. The Russian Jewish journals Ha-Melits and Voskhod served as forums for this debate, which continued until World War I and aimed, ultimately, at solving the problem of the dual rabbinate. All the while, crown rabbis continued to function in their official capacities, even participating in various Russian rabbinic commissions as well as the Rabbinic Congress of 1910. (YIVO Encyclopedia) In the series: Mehkarim be-toldot `am-Yisrael ve-Erets-Yisrael : Sidrah monografit; kerekh 1 (Studies in the history of the Jewish people and the land of Israel; 1) Subjects: Crown Rabbinate. Haskalah - Russia. Jews - Europe, Eastern - Politics and government. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. - Russia - History. Jews - Russia - Emancipation. Jews - Russia - Politics and government. Judaism - Russia. OCLC lists 15 copies. Light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (EE-5-39)
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Meisl, Josef
HASKALAH: GESCHICHTE DER AUFKLÄRUNGSBEWEGUNG UNTER DEN JUDEN IN RUSSLAND
Publishers cloth. 8vo. VII, 228 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Haskalah; History of the Jewish Enlightenment in Russia, covers the century long direction of the ideas of Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment as it transitioned in different political, ideological, and economic shifts in different locales in Russia. Written by Dr. Josef Meisl (1882-1958) , who was the general secretary of the Jewish Community of Berlin, and a correspondent of Chaim Weizmann; after emigrating he worked at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem. Subjects: Jews - Education. Jews - Soviet Union. Jews - Poland. Hebrew literature - History and criticism. Joden. Culturele bewegingen. Haskala. Light wear to cloth, overall very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (EE-5-40)
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Kohen, Yitshak? Yosef; Mendel Piekarz; Chone Shmeruk
PIRSUMIM YEHUDIYIM BI-VERIT HA-MOATSOT, 1917-1960: RESHIMOT BIBLIOGRAFIYOT = JEWISH PUBLICATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION, 1917-1960
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 143, 502, VI pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Hebrew and Yiddish with introduction and table of contents also in English. Title page verso: Yidishe publik? Atsyes in Rat? N-Farband, 1917-1960; Jewish publications in the Soviet Union, 1917-1960. Compiled and arranged by Y. Y. Cohen; with the assistance of M. Piekarz; introductions by Y. Slutski and Kh. Shmeruk; edited by Kh. Shmeruk. Annotated bibliography consisting of 4, 152 entries. The editor, Chone Schmeruk (19211997) , was a historian of Yiddish literature and Ashkenazic Jewry. Khone Shmeruk was born and raised in Warsaw, where he studied in a modern heder and in the Krinski secondary school before beginning studies at the University of Warsaw and the YIVO Institute. In the latter part of his career, he was instrumental in renewing Jewish studies in Poland. From 1939 to 1946, Shmeruk was a refugee in the USSR. He went from there to a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, and in 1949 immigrated to Israel. He studied in the Yiddish department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under Dov Sadan and in the department of Jewish history with Ben-Zion Dinur, Yits? Ak Baer, and Israel Halpern, who directed Shmeruks dissertation on Jewish settlement in Belorussia from 1918 to 1932, for which he earned a doctorate in 1961.
For many years Shmeruk was head of the Department of Yiddish at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in that framework he founded a belles lettres series in 1969 (titled Sifrut Yidish [Yiddish Literature]) and a series of monographs in 1986 (YidishMekorot u-me? Karim [YiddishTexts and Studies]) . He laid the foundations for the Yiddish Press catalog (Index of Yiddish Periodicals; IYP) , and for other collections and recordings, including a bibliography of Yiddish books printed between 1534 and 1750. He also initiated and established the Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry (1956) and the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews at the Hebrew University (1983) , directing the latter for nine years and forming a model for a similar center, established at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1986. In addition, Shmeruk served as a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw and taught at the University of Lódz. (YIVO Encyclopedia) Continued by Russian publications on Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1967: a bibliography. Subjects: Hebrew imprints - Soviet Union - Bibliography. Yiddish imprints - Soviet Union - Bibliography. Jewish publishing - Soviet Union - Bibliography. Jews - Soviet Union - Bibliography. Light soiling to cloth and outer edges, internally very fresh and clean. Good + condition. (EE-5-42)
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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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Braun, Patrick; Jean Sanitas
LE BIROBIDJAN: UNE TERRE JUIVE EN URSS?
Softbound. 8vo. 221, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In French. Birobidjan, a Jewish land of the USSR. With 8 pages of color photographs of Birobidjan from the late 1980s. Subjects: Jews - Russia (Federation) - Birobidzhan. Juifs - Russie - Région autonome des Juifs. Birobidzhan (Russia) Birobidjan (URSS ; région autonome juive) . Light wear to wraps and edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (EE-5-44)
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Elk, Julius
DIE JÜDISCHEN KOLONIEN IN RUSSLAND; KULTURHISTORISCHE STUDIE UND BEITRAG ZU GESCHICHTE DER JUDEN IN RUSSLAND?
Softbound. 12mo. 219 pages. 19 cm. Second edition. Reprint of the Frankfurt a. M. , 1886 edition. In German. The Jewish Colonies in Russia; Culture-Historical Study and Contribution to the history of the Jews in Russia. History and documentation of the limited nineteenth century Jewish agricultural colonies in tsarist Russia. Subjects: Jews - Russia. Jewish farmers. Agricultural colonies - Russia. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-5-45)
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Paretzki, Elie
DIE ENTSTEHUNG DER JÜDISCHEN ARBEITERBEWEGUNG IN RUSSLAND
Softbound. 8vo. 112 pages. 22 cm. Second edition. Reprint, originally published: Riga, 1932. In German. The Emergence of the Jewish Labor Movement in Russia. Subjects: Jews - Soviet Union. Working class - Soviet Union. Joden. Arbeidersbeweging. OCLC lists 23 copies. Light shelf wear to edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-5-46)
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Efros, Israel and Louis Ginzberg
PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS IN THE MOREH NEBUKIM
Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 157 pages, 24 cm. Series: Columbia University Oriental studies, volume 22. SUBJECT (S) : Philosophy -- Terminology. Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Dalalat al-h? Airin. Notes by Louis Ginzberg on pages 129-144. "Works consulted" on pages ix-x. Efros (1891-1981) was a Hebrew educator, poet, and scholar. Born in Ostrog, the Ukraine, he went to the United States in 1905. He served for a time as rabbi and in 1918 founded the Baltimore Hebrew College and the Teachers Training School. He was professor of Hebrew at Johns Hopkins University, rabbi of Temple Beth El in Buffalo, professor of Semitics at the University of Buffalo and Hunter College, N. Y. C. , where he founded the Hebrew Division; in 1945 he was appointed professor of Jewish philosophy and modern Hebrew literature at Dropsie College, Philadelphia. Efros served as president of the Histadrut Ivrit of America. He settled in Israel in 1955 and served as rector of Tel Aviv University. In 1960 he was elected honorary president of the university. His works on Jewish philosophy include The Problem of Space in Jewish Medieval Philosophy, Philosophical Terms in the Moreh Nebukim, Judah Halevi as Poet and Thinker, Ha-Pilosofyah ha-Yehudit ha-Attikah, Ancient Jewish Philosophy: A Study in Metaphysics and Ethics, Studies in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and studies on Saadiah Gaon and Abraham B. Hiyya. Among his volumes of poetry are Shirim; Vigvamim Shotekim, a poem about the American Indians with echoes of American epic poetry; Zahav about the California Gold Rush of 1849; Anahnu ha-Dor. A four-volume collection of his poetry was published in 1966. His spiritual world is rooted both in tradition and in critical philosophy; thus tension is felt in his poetry between the antipodes of feeling and cerebration. Efros diction is both poetic and precise. A pessimistic vision dominates his post-World War II works. Efros translated Shelley's poetry and Shakespeare's Hamlet and other works into Hebrew, and some of Bialiks poetry into English. He also collaborated with Judah Even-Shmuel (Kaufman) and Benjamin N. Silkiner in compiling an English-Hebrew dictionary (Berenbaum and Skolnik in EJ, 2007). Previous owner's mark on end page, light yellowing to edges of some pages. Otherwise, very good condition. (RAB-57-1)
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Efros, Israel and Louis Ginzberg
PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS IN THE MOREH NEBUKIM
Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 157 pages, 24 cm. Series: Columbia University Oriental studies, volume 22. SUBJECT (S) : Philosophy -- Terminology. Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Dalalat al-h? Airin. Notes by Louis Ginzberg on pages 129-144. "Works consulted" on pages ix-x. Efros (1891-1981) was a Hebrew educator, poet, and scholar. Born in Ostrog, the Ukraine, he went to the United States in 1905. He served for a time as rabbi and in 1918 founded the Baltimore Hebrew College and the Teachers Training School. He was professor of Hebrew at Johns Hopkins University, rabbi of Temple Beth El in Buffalo, professor of Semitics at the University of Buffalo and Hunter College, N. Y. C. , where he founded the Hebrew Division; in 1945 he was appointed professor of Jewish philosophy and modern Hebrew literature at Dropsie College, Philadelphia. Efros served as president of the Histadrut Ivrit of America. He settled in Israel in 1955 and served as rector of Tel Aviv University. In 1960 he was elected honorary president of the university. His works on Jewish philosophy include The Problem of Space in Jewish Medieval Philosophy, Philosophical Terms in the Moreh Nebukim, Judah Halevi as Poet and Thinker, Ha-Pilosofyah ha-Yehudit ha-Attikah, Ancient Jewish Philosophy: A Study in Metaphysics and Ethics, Studies in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and studies on Saadiah Gaon and Abraham B. Hiyya. Among his volumes of poetry are Shirim; Vigvamim Shotekim, a poem about the American Indians with echoes of American epic poetry; Zahav about the California Gold Rush of 1849; Anahnu ha-Dor. A four-volume collection of his poetry was published in 1966. His spiritual world is rooted both in tradition and in critical philosophy; thus tension is felt in his poetry between the antipodes of feeling and cerebration. Efros diction is both poetic and precise. A pessimistic vision dominates his post-World War II works. Efros translated Shelley's poetry and Shakespeare's Hamlet and other works into Hebrew, and some of Bialiks poetry into English. He also collaborated with Judah Even-Shmuel (Kaufman) and Benjamin N. Silkiner in compiling an English-Hebrew dictionary (Berenbaum and Skolnik in EJ, 2007). Ex library, hinges repaired, some pages loose, otherwise good condition. (RAB-57-1A)
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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-5-37A)
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(JT) Kissman, Joseph
SHTUDYES TSU DER GESHIKHTE FUN RUMENISHE YIDN IN 19TN UN ONHEYB 20STN YORHUNDERT
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 118 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. English title page: Studies in the History of Rumanian Jews in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The only published volume amidst the prolific writings of Joseph Kissman (1889-1968) , one of the youngest participants in the Czernowitz Conference. Later in his career, living in the US Joseph Kissman was an active journalist and writer, frequent contributor to Tsukunft, Forverts, and other Yiddish periodicals. He wrote the book Shtudyes tsu der geshikhte fun rumenishe yidn in 19tn un onheyb 20stn yorhundert (Nyu York: Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, 1944) and edited the Jewish Labor Committee's publication Facts and Opinions. (Mendele, Vol. 08.048, September 1998) Subjects: Jews - Romania - History. Romania - Ethnic relations. Light wear to cloth, penciled inscription on endpage, otherwise very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (YID-16-24A)
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Tcherikower, Elias
DI UKRAINER POGROMEN IN YOR 1919
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 372, [2] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Bibliotek fun YIVO. English title page: The Pogroms in the Ukraine in 1919. Continuation of the work Antisemitizm un pogromen in Ukraine, 1917-1918 published 1923. A detailed scholarly study of the terrible Ukrainian pogroms in 1919 written by Elias Tcherikower (18811943) , historian of Russian Jewish life and anti-Jewish violence.
The 1919 Bolshevik suppression of Jewish autonomy and the simultaneous wave of violence and mass murder against Ukrainian Jewish communities by nationalist, White, and other forces (the Ukrainian pogroms) strongly shaped Tsherikovers subsequent scholarly career. He helped compile an essential collection of documents and testimonies on Jewish autonomy and its dissolution (Di idishe oytonomie un der natsyonaler secretariat in Ukraine; 1920) and later edited a related volume of documents and memoirs on revolutionary-era Jewish life, In der tkufe fun revolutsye (Berlin, 1924) . From 1919, Tsherikover devoted himself especially to gathering evidence about pogroms. By the time he left Russia for Berlin via Kovne/Kaunas in 1921, he had compiled a massive archive (now housed at YIVO) . Settling in Berlin, he began a massive scholarly project on pogroms with other Jewish scholars and activists, including Simon Dubnow, Yosef Schechtman, Nokhem Shtif, Jakob Lestschinsky, and N. Gergel. Tsherikover himself wrote two historical studies on pogroms: Antisemitizm un pogromen in Ukraine, 19171918 (published in Yiddish and Russian, 1923) and Di Ukrainer pogromen in 1919, published posthumously (1965) . Tsherikover and his archive also played an important role in the 19261927 Paris trial of Shalom Schwarzbard. (YIVO Encyclopedia; Tsherikover, Elye) . Subjects: Jews Ukraine - History - 20th century. Jews - Persecutions - Ukraine - History - 20th century. Ukraine - History - Revolution, 1917-1921.Pogroms - Ukraine - History - 20th century. Ukraine - Ethnic relations - History - 20th century. Very light wear to outer edges, near fine. Great condition. (YID-16-20A)
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Gambal, Marie S.
RUS, UKRAINE AND MUSCOVY, RUSSIA
Staple bound leaves. 12mo. 23, [1] pages. 28cm. An essay about the history and development of the Ukrainian national identity. Discussing the sovereignty of Ukraine, the intersections of Ukrainian and Russian culture, and Ukrainian culture and language. Marie S. Gambal was an active contributor to the Ukrainian Weekly (Svoboda) . Subjects: Ukraine. Ukrainian Identity. Light age toning and shelf wear. Very good condition. (UKR-1-4) xx
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Gambal, Marie S.
RUS, UKRAINE AND MUSCOVY, RUSSIA
Original Wrappers. 12mo. 23, [1] pages. 28cm. An essay about the history and development of the Ukrainian national identity. Discussing the sovereignty of Ukraine, the intersections of Ukrainian and Russian culture, and Ukrainian culture and language. Marie S. Gambal was an active contributor to the Ukrainian Weekly (Svoboda) . Subjects: Ukraine. Ukrainian Identity. Light age toning and shelf wear, writing in ink on title page. Very good condition. (UKR-1-4a)
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Hryhorijiv, Nikifor
DEMOCRACY: ITS CHANNELS AND TASKS
Original Wrapper. 8vo. 47 pages. 22cm. First Edition. Translated from Ukrainian by C. H. Andrusyshen. A treatise on democracy, exploring the roles and motivations of various European governments during the interwar period. Subjects: Democracy. World politics. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Bottom fore edge corner bumped, some light age toning and rubbing to covers. Good + condition. (UKR-1-5)
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Ukrainian Canadian Committee
ZBIRNYK MATERIIALIV I DOKUMENTIV: U 25-LITTIA DIIAL'NOSTY KUK: 1940-1965 = COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL: 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UKRAINIAN CANADIAN COMMITTEE: 1940-1965
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 310 pages. 25cm. Illustrated. First Edition. In Ukrainian with articles in English. A commemorative collection of photographs, articles and reports of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. Black and white photographs depict committee members throughout the years 1940-1965. Contains donor list for a monument to Taras Shevchenko and period advertisements from Canada in Ukrainian. Subjects: Ukrainians -- Canada. Ukrainian Canadian Committee. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Toronto Public Libr. , Brandon Univ. , Univ of Regina. ) , none outside Canada. Some shelf wear and light rubbing to covers. Very good condition. (UKR-1-12)
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Ukrainian Folk Ballet Of The Twin Cities
THE UKADET: VOL 5, NO 12. DECEMBER 1945: VOL 6, NO 4. APRIL 1946: VOL 6, NO 6. JUNE 1946: VOL 6, NO 7. JULY 1946: VOL 12, NO 2-3. FEBRUARY Â MARCH 1952: AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1953: JULY 17, 1955. [7 ISSUES]
Staple bound single-sided leaves. 4to. Unpaged. 28cm. First Edition. In English and Ukrainian. Seven early issues of the mimeographed newsletter published and written by young members of St. Michaelâs Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Folk Ballet of the Twin Cities. Covers feature amateur line drawings submitted by readers and contributors. First published in 1941, The UKadet is a cultural and community bulletin featuring articles of interest to Ukrainians living in the Twin Cities, as well as general lifestyle information. Each of these issues features a 3-5 page section in Ukrainian. ÂThe Ukrainian Folk Ballet of the Twin Cities was founded in 1934 in Minneapolis. The aims of the group were to organize Ukrainian youth, promote Ukrainian arts and culture, especially the national dances, and to promote the Ukrainian cultural heritage among Americans. Its membership consisted of young people from the parish of St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Northeast Minneapolis and included many non-Ukrainians over the years. The group published a newsletter, the "Ukadet" for many years. Â (Immigration History Research Center) Subjects: Ukrainian American communities. Ukrainian youth organizations. OCLC lists 3 series runs worldwide. (Hoover Inst, Hennepin County Libr. , Minnesota Historical Society. ) Edge wear, some rubbing. Light age toning. Good + condition. Later issues also available. (UKR-1-15)
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Stefan, Augustin
FROM CARPATHO-RUTHENIA TO CARPATHO-UKRAINE
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 47 pages. 24 cm. Illustrated. First Edition. ÂThis modest publication by Prof. Augustine Stefan, entitled âFrom Carpatho-Ruthenia to Carpatho-Ukraineâ, is the first informative work in English on Carpatho-Ukraine and her struggle for freedom. The author is the most capable person for such an undertaking. Prof. Stefan is a true son of Carpatho-Ukraine; a professor by profession, statesman and the Speaker of the Carpatho-Ukrainian Constituanta, which on March 15, 1939, proclaimed the independence of this country. Prof. Augustine Stefanâs book, giving first hand information on Carpatho-Ukraine, will be a valuable contribution to the political literature of this strategically very important area of Central Europe. Â (Foreward) Subjects: Zakarpatsâka oblastâ (Ukraine) -- History. Ukrainian Independence. Some staining on front cover. OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide. Light age toning. Good + condition . (UKR-1-21) xx
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Dushnyck, Walter
IN QUEST OF FREEDOM 1918-1958: IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE
Original Wrappers. 16mo. 26 pages. 18 cm. Contains black and white portraits of notable Ukrainian leaders, as well as photographs of demonstrations and assemblies held during the Ukrainian National Revolution of 1918. Essay commemorating and analyzing the independent Ukrainian government, with an examination of the post-World War II situation in Ukraine. Subjects: Ukraine -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1945. Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991. Some age toning and edge wear, text block clean and crisp. Good + condition. (UKR-1-23) xx
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Zola, Emile
MRIYA [THE DREAM]
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 192 pages. 23 cm. In Ukrainian. Emile Zolaâs sixteenth novel from the Rougon-Macquart series. Zolaâs work was sporadically translated into Ukrainian in the late 19th century, but his entire works were first published in Ukrainian between 1929-1930 in Kiev. This particular edition, presumably by the same translator, was published by the active Ukrainian Publishing Co. Of Canada, and includes advertisements on the inside and back covers sponsored by the Winnipeg based Ukrainian language newspaper âThe Ukrainan Voice.  Subjects: French fiction -- 19th century -- Translations into Ukrainian. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Light age wear and age toning. ½ inch piece missing from top of backstrip. Some shelf wear. Front hinge loose. Very good condition. (UKR-1-25)
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Ostroverkha, Mykhailo
HROZNA KALYNY: V UKRAINSKIKH SICHOVYKH STRILSTIV = BOYS LIKE FALCONS
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 132 pages. 22 cm. Illustrated. First Edition. In Ukrainian. Black and white period photographs and line drawings. Line drawing frontispiece portrait of the author. Ukrainian title translates as âTerrible Kalyny: With the Ukrianian Sich Riflemen."The author's memoir of his experience with the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. The unit was formed in August 1914 [within the Austro-Hungarian Army] on the initiative of the Supreme Ukrainian Council. It was composed of members of different Ukrainian paramilitary organizations in Galicia, led by Frank Schott, and participated in hostilities on the Russian front. After World War I, with Austria's disintegration, the unit became the regular military unit of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. During German and Austrian occupation of Ukraine in 1918 the unit was stationed in southern Ukraine. Former unit soldiers participated in the formation of Sich Riflemen, a military unit of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In 1919 the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen expanded into the Ukrainian Galician Army . They participated in the Polish-Ukrainian War around Lviv and suffered heavy losses. On May 2, 1920, the unit was disbanded." (Wikipedia) Involved with Ukrainian National politics throughout the early half of the 20th century, Ostroverkha edited and contributed to many periodicals of the time. His Ukrainian translation work included Machivelli's The Prince. Resettling from Germany to the United States after World War II he continued to contribute to the cause of Ukrainian Independence." (Wikipedia) Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Ukraine -- Personal narratives, Ukrainian. Authors, Ukrainian -- 20th century -- Biography. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Light shelf wear and light age toning to covers. Very good + condition. (UKR-1-30)
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Ukrainian Congress Committee Of America
THE UKRAINIAN QUARTERLY [25 ISSUES]
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 24 cm. First Edition. Issued quarterly, 4 times a year. No. 1 and 2 of vol. I, complete vol. II, complete vol. III, complete vol. IV, complete vol. V, complete vol. VI, complete vol. VIII, issue no. 3 of vol. XI. "The Ukrainian Quarterly has been in circulation since 1944, and remains the only English-language scholarly journal dedicated to Ukrainian and Eastern European affairs. Sent to U. S. Government officials, policy makers and universities throughout the world, this publication provides an outlet for the UCCA to disseminate information and advocate issues." (Ukrainian Congress Committee of America) Subjects: Ukrainian Americans -- Periodicals. Ukraine -- History. Some issues have significant edgewear, particularly along backstrip. Light age toning present throughout. Some issues have institutional markings. Overall good condition. (UKR-1-33)
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Volynyak , Peter. Ed.
NOWI DNI [NEW DAY] [64 ISSUES]
Original Wrappers. 4to. 29 cm. First Edition. Issues 181-251. From 1965 - 1970. In 1948 [Peter Volynyak] moved to Canada. Initially he worked on the newspaper "Echo Ukraine". In 1950, the first issue of the magazine "New Day" was published, edited and authored by P. Volynyak, in honor of Ukrainian independence, until his death. (Ukrainians In the World Encyclopedia) Subjects: Ukraine -- Periodicals . OCLC lists 14 libraries worldwide with these issues. Some edgewear and light age toning, occasional previous ownerâs names. Very good + condition. (UKR-1-34)
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Volynyak , Peter. Ed.
NOWI DNI [NEW DAY] [62 ISSUES]
Original Wrappers. 4to. 29 cm. First Edition. Issues 180-251, missing issue 183 . From 1965 - 1970. "In 1948 [Peter Volynyak] moved to Canada. Initially he worked on the newspaper "Echo Ukraine". In 1950, the first issue of the magazine "New Day" was published, edited and authored by P. Volynyak, in honor of Ukrainian independence, until his death. " (Ukrainians In the World Encyclopedia) Subjects: Ukraine -- Periodicals . OCLC lists 14 libraries worldwide with these issues. Some edge wear and light age toning. Occasional previous owner's names. Very good + condition. (UKR-1-34b)
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Pavlychenko, T. K.
RUKH NATSIONALIEDNOSTY: Z PRYVODU IUVILEINOÃ KONFERENTSIÃ UNO KANADY. [MOVEMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY: FROM THE ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE OF THE UNF CANADA.]
Original Wrappers. 12mo. 30 pages. 19 cm. Illustrated. First Edition. Black and white portraits of members of the Ukrainian National Federation. History and information regarding the activities of the Ukrainian National Federation on the occasion of the organizations 20th anniversary. "The Ukrainian National Federation was founded on Sunday, July 17, 1932 at a historic meeting in Edmonton, Alberta. In the first four years, 50 Branches were established across Canada. The UNF was incorporated by an Act of Parliament on June 1, 1950. The UNF is dedicated to the preservation of Ukrainian Canadian history and the cultural heritage of Ukraine." (unfcanada. Ca) Subjects: Ukrainian National Federation. T. K. Pavlychenko. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Light age toning and shelf wear. Minimal previous institutional markings. Very good. Condition. (UKR-1-47) xx
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Pachovskyi, Vasyl
UKRAYINTSYI, YAK NAROD [UKRAINIANS AS A NATION]
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 20cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. Pachovskyi was a proflic but little known poet and author. His writings focused on topics of Ukrainian nationalism and independence, and is seen as an early proponent of these positions. (Wikipedia) Subjects: Ukrainians -- History. Nationalism -- Ukraine. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Labels on cover. Previous owner's name on title page. Some light age toning and shelf wear. Very good condition. (UKR-1-48)
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Pachovskyi, Vasyl
UKRAYINTSYI, YAK NAROD [UKRAINIANS AS A NATION]
8vo. 16 pages. 20cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. Pachovskyi was a proflic but little known poet and author. His writings focused on topics of Ukrainian nationalism and independence, and is seen as an early proponent of these positions. (Wikipedia) Subjects: Ukrainians -- History. Nationalism -- Ukraine. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. (Univ. Of Manitoba, Saint Basil's College, Libr. Of Congress, Harvard, Univ. Of Michigan, Miami Univ. , Univ. Of Alberta, and the British Libr. ) Wrappers missing, Some light age toning and shelf wear. Good condition. (UKR-1-48a)
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Paneyko, Alexander
UKRAINSKA STENOHRAFIIA [UKRAINIAN STENOGRAPHY]
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 93 pages. 22 cm. Second Edition. Manual of Ukrainian hand writing and short hand published shortly after the second official revision of Ukrainian Orthography in 1945. Subjects: Shorthand. Stenography. Ukrainian. Some separation at back strip near top and bottom edges. Light age toning and shelf wear. Good condition. (UKR-1-50)
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Ukrainain Committee In Cezchoslovakia
RIK PRATSI: UKRAINSKOHO HROMADSKOHO KOMITETU CHSR [YEAR OF LABOR: UKRAINAIN COMMITTEE IN CEZCHOSLOVAKIA
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 45 pages. 23 cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. Informational pamphlet about the work of the Ukrainian Committee in Czechoslovakia An immigrant aid organization established in the summer of 1921 in Prague. The group was initiated by Mykyta Shapoval, who used his connections with the Czechoslovak authorities to secure government funds for the committee's organizational and relief work. The committee had a medical and sanitary department under the leadership of S. Litov that ran a clinic and provided aid to invalids. It also initiated the establishment of the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Podebrady (1922) and the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague (1923). Initially the UHK represented all Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia, but eventually some émigré circles broke away from it because of ideological and political differences. In 1925 the Czechoslovak government withdrew its financial support, and the committee was replaced by several new organizations. The president of the UHK was Shapoval, and its most active members were Nykyfor Hryhoriiv and Mykola Halahan. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine) Subjects: Immigration. Ukraine. Czechoslovakia. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (University of California, University of Toronto.) Light shelf wear and age toning. Very good+ condition. (UKR-1-51)
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Nazaruk, Osyp
RIK NA VELYKII UKRAINI [GREAT YEAR FOR UKRAINE]
Original Wrappers. 16mo. 344 pages. 15 cm. First Edition. Personal account of the Ukrainian Revolution with a focus on the events of 1919 in the Kamyanets-Podilsky region of western Ukraine. Especially recounting the conflict between the Ukrainian People's Republic led by Symon Petliura and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic led by Eugene Petrushevych (mirroring one of the geo-political splits in today's Ukraine) . Subjects: History. Personal narratives. 1917 - 1921 Ukraine -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives. Ukraine. Age toning and edge wear. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Good condition. (UKR-1-52)
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[Yitshak Elhanan Spektor] Aronzohn, Eli?ezer Hilel Ben Yitshak Ayzik, Ha-Kohen
SEFER EREZ BA-LEVANON: KOLEL DERUSH ? AL DEREKH MUSAR HASKEL UVE-TOKHO RATSUF HESPED ? AL ... YITSHAK ELHANAN SPEKTOR ...
Period Boards. 8vo. 31 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Funeral Eulogy for Isaac Elhanan Spektor (1817-1896) rabbi, leader of traditional Jewry in Russia, halakhic authority, and supporter of the Hibat Tsiyon (Love of Zion) movement. Yitshak Elhanan Spektor served as rabbi in various communities in the Russia Empire, the most important of which was Kovno in Lithuania (18641896) - Yivo Encyclopedia. He corresponded with the leading rabbis of western Europe, and was the anonymous friend who induced Samson Raphael Hirsch to write 'Ueber die Beziehung des Talmuds zum Judenthum. ' In his later years he was revered by the Jews of Russia; and his death caused mourning in Orthodox communities throughout the world. - 1906 JE. Contains the bookstamp of Rabbi Benzion Eisenstadt (bookstamp is in Hebrew and English) . Subjects: Eulogies. Jewish funeral sermons. Spektor, Isaac Elhanan, 1817-1896. OCLC lists 8 copies. Outer edge of binding fragile and chipped; aged, with light soiling throughout. Good condition. (GER-44-46)
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Bessarabia/romania/bukovina/transylvania) Ussoskin, Moshe.
STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL: A HISTORY OF JEWISH CREDIT CO-OPERATIVES IN BESSARABIA, OLD-RUMANIA, BUKOVINA, AND TRANSYLVANIA.
Jerusalem: Jerusalem Academic Press, 1975. Cloth, 8vo, xxxi, 345, 22 pages, 28 leaves of plates: illustrations, facsims, maps, portraits; 23 cm. Prefatory material also in Hebrew. Booklet in pocket. Includes indexes. Bibliography on pages 325-326. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Subject: Banks and banking, Cooperative. Jews -- Economic conditions. Romania -- Economic conditions. Very Good condition. (Comhist-6-8A-E)
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Tobenkin, Elias
GOD OF MIGHT (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)
Original Cloth, 8vo, 272 pages. SIGNED, inscribed by the author to Rev [Rabbi] and Mrs. Jacob Schwartz, who was the rabbi at Bnai Jacob in New York. Novel of Russian village Jews emigrating to Chicago. Rideout author (radical/ proletarian literature in America) . Light wear to spine, About Very Good Condition. (kh-3-4)
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(Xt) Moreins, J. ; [Seskis, J]
DOS NAYE LETLAND : POLITISHE, EKONOMISHE UN KULTURELE UFLEBUNG. JAUNA LATVIJA
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 88 pages; 26cm. In Yiddish with introduction in Latvian. Title translates into English as, The New Latvia : Political , Economic and Cultural Revival. At the time of printing, Latvia had been an independent republic for only 16 years. Isaac Morien was a reporter, (and) a reviewer on Jewish media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Latvia. (He) came from stock famous for its Jewish scientific knowledge. He graduated from Y. Landau Gymnasium in Riga and studied law at the University of Latvia
From 1930 until October 7, 1940 he worked as a reviewer on Jewish media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
Isaak widely popularized Latvia and its achievements in his books and articles, which were published in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, French and Arabic. (He) gave lectures on Latvia in Jerusalem, Kaunas, and Athens, (and) was a cofounder of the newspaper Ovnt-post (The Evening Post) . (Jewish Gen, 2015) With an introduction from the famous Latvian revolutionary and politician Janis Seskis (1877-1943) . Seskis was a teacher and Latvian diplomat, Revolution of 1905 participant, Latvian Information service creator in Petrograd (1917) , the Latvian Provisional National Council member (1917-1918) , the Paris Peace Conference Delegate (1919) , Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official (1920-1940) , and the Latvian Ambassador to the USSR (1929-1932) . After the Latvian occupation he was deported to the USSR, where he was executed. (Wikipedia, 2016) An extremely scarce copy. OCLC lists only 1 holding worldwide (Stanford) . Wear to Paper Wrappers and spine. Inside pages in good condition. (SPEC-42-1)
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Bobe, Mendel.
EVREI V LATVII
1st Russian Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 438 pages ; 22 cm. In Russian. Title translates into English as, Jews of Latvia. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Latvia -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Latvia. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Included photographs and maps. Very good+ condition. (holo2-130-45)
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Moreins, J. ; [Seskis, J]
DOS NAYE LETLAND : POLITISHE, EKONOMISHE UN KULTURELE UFLEBUNG. JAUNA LATVIJA
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 88 pages; 26cm. In Yiddish with introduction in Latvian. Title translates into English as, The New Latvia : Political , Economic and Cultural Revival. At the time of printing, Latvia had been an independent republic for only 16 years. Isaac Morien was a reporter, (and) a reviewer on Jewish media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Latvia. (He) came from stock famous for its Jewish scientific knowledge. He graduated from Y. Landau Gymnasium in Riga and studied law at the University of Latvia
From 1930 until October 7, 1940 he worked as a reviewer on Jewish media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
Isaak widely popularized Latvia and its achievements in his books and articles, which were published in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, French and Arabic. (He) gave lectures on Latvia in Jerusalem, Kaunas, and Athens, (and) was a cofounder of the newspaper Ovnt-post (The Evening Post) . (Jewish Gen, 2015) With an introduction from the famous Latvian revolutionary and politician Janis Seskis (1877-1943) . Seskis was a teacher and Latvian diplomat, Revolution of 1905 participant, Latvian Information service creator in Petrograd (1917) , the Latvian Provisional National Council member (1917-1918) , the Paris Peace Conference Delegate (1919) , Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official (1920-1940) , and the Latvian Ambassador to the USSR (1929-1932) . After the Latvian occupation he was deported to the USSR, where he was executed. (Wikipedia, 2016) An extremely scarce copy. OCLC lists only 1 holding worldwide (Stanford) . Wear to Paper Wrappers and spine. Inside pages in good condition. (SPEC-42-1A)
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(Xt) Levy, Louis Edward
THE RUSSIAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN AMERICA: CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF IMMIGRATION IN ITS HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS [SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]
1st Separate Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 25 pages; 24 cm. In English. Reprinted from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen, by Simon Wolf. Levy was an American photochemist
He went to America in early life, and was educated at Detroit; he studied especially mathematics and astronomy at Michigan University in 1866, and optics at Detroit. He was connected with the meteorological observatory of the United States Lake Survey District in 1866, and engaged in researches in microscopic photography during 1869 and 1870. This led to his invention of a method of photochemical engraving, the Levytype, which was patented in 1875. He established a company in Baltimore, but removed to Philadelphia in 1877, in which year he invented the Levy line-screen, which was perfected by his brother Max. For this he received the John Scott Legacy medal at the Franklin Institute in 1897. He invented a new process of intaglio engraving, the photo-mezzotint, in 1889. In 1896 he invented a new method of etching, the Levy acid blast, for which he received the Elliott Cresson gold medal at the Franklin Institute in 1899. He was awarded a medal and diploma at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and decorations and (a) diploma from the Imperial Photographic Society of Moscow
From 1887 to 1890 Levy was publisher and editor of the Philadelphia Evening Herald, and at the same time of the Mercury, a Philadelphia Sunday paper. In 1896 he edited and published Cuba and the Cubans. He is the author of The Russian Jewish Refugees in America (1895)
He has contributed to many technical journals, and represented the Franklin Institute at the Scientific Congress of the Paris Exposition (Cyrus Adler in Jewish Encyclodia, 1906) . For this work, the author utilized a paper read by him before the Board of Presidents of the National Societies of Philadelphia, as a member of that body. Quotes letters of Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Judge John F. Dillon, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, and Father Sylvester Malone of Brooklyn. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- United States. Jewish refugees -- United States. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Signed, With the compliments of the author on the cover. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Some water damage. Wrappers are worn with a tear in the back wrapper and last page with no text effected. Inside pages are bright and readable. About good condition. (AMR-48-46)
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Rosenfelt, Henry H.
THIS THING OF GIVING; THE RECORD OF A RARE ENTERPRISE OF MERCY AND BROTHERHOOD
1st Edition. Original Green and Gold Boards. 8vo. 399 pages; 23 cm. In English. Rosenfelt served as president of the American Jewish Relief Committee. In the forward, he writes, In telling the story of how sixty-three million dollars were raised in America to relieve the war-stricken Jews of Europe and Palestine, I have tried not to write a history.... On the contrary, an effort will b made to give something of the actual pressure and multiplicity of the events themselves
Includes photos of American-Jewish leaders, and of the war relief campaign, including a striking photo of "Rev. Philip Klein blessing the first shipment of kosher beef from New York to the starving Jews of Poland. "Also includes an Honor Roll with names of about 6875 American Jews, and their place of residence, who contributed. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals. World War, 1914-1918 -- Jews. Jews -- Charities. Some edgewear but overall in very good condition. (AMR-48-50)
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Plotzker Young Men's Independent Association
CONSTITUTION: PLOTZKER YOUNG MEN'S INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION
1st Edition. Original Blue Boards. 12mo. 34, [36] pages ; 15 cm. Full text in both English and Yiddish, with boards and title pages in each language as well. The Plotzker Young Men's Independent Association was an American society for Jewish immigrants from Plock, Poland. The Jewish presence in Plock (Yiddish: Plotzk) dates back many centuries, probably to the 13th and 14th centuries, when records include them. The Polish kings extended rights to them in 1264 and the 14th century, and provided continued political support through the centuries. At the beginning of the 19th century, their more than 1200 residents comprised more than 48% of the city's population in what is considered the city's Old Town; through the century, their proportions ranged from 30s and 40 percent. (Wikipedia, 2016) The Association was formed in 1893. Very scarce. OCLC lists no copies worldwide. Previous owners bookplate. Boards have some minor edgewear. Overall about very good condition. (AMR-49-9)
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Tiempo, César [Israel Zeitlin]
MI TIO SCHOLEM ALEIJEM Y OTROS PARIENTES
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 319 pages ; 18 cm. In Spanish. Title Translates into English as, My Uncle Sholem Aleichem and Other Relatives. One of the last published works of César Tiempo. César Tiempo , born Israel Zeitlin (1906 - 1980) was a writer , journalist , editor , playwright and screenwriter in Argentina. (Wikpedia, 2016) He was part of the Grupo de Boedo. Note the translation of his last name from Yiddish into Spanish. Contains an introduction from Eduardo Stilman. SUBJECT(S) : Biography. Spine is taped. Some wear to wrappers. Paper browning. In good condition. (Latam-4-2)
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Satt, Barel. Introduction by Arthur Miller
A JEWISH TOWN IN WOOD SCULPTURE
Original Publisher's Cloth. 4to. Xxii, xvi, 32 plates. Illus. 31 cm. In English and Yidddish. Added title page and text in Yiddish: "A Yidish shtetl in holz skupltur. " Artist preserves the mode of life & types of the Jewish towns in Eastern Europe that were obliterated in the Holocaust. Includes loose program from exhibit. Minimal staining. Slight toning. Very good condition +. (SPEC-23-13B)
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Yehoash (Bloomgarden, Solomon)
FUN NYU-YORK BIZ REHOVOT UN TSURIK [THREE VOLUME SET]
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 217; 205; 230 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Cover illustrated by S. Raskin. From New York to Rehovot and Back, the travel narrative and memoir of Yehoash in three volumes. YEHOASH (pseudonym of Yehoash Solomon Bloomgarden; 18721927) , Yiddish poet and translator. Yehoash was born in Virbalen, Lithuania, and as a boy he read maskilic literature as well as studying Torah with his father, briefly attending the yeshivah of Volozhin, only to begin a career as a Hebrew poet. At the age of 17 he took his first Hebrew poems to Warsaw, where I. L. Peretz encouraged him to continue writing Hebrew and Yiddish lyrics. The following year Yehoash immigrated to the U. S. He made no headway either as a Hebrew poet or in various callings bookkeeping, tailoring, peddling, and Hebrew teaching. For a decade he faced severe privations until he contracted tuberculosis and went to the Denver Sanatorium for Consumptives in 1900 to recuperate. There he remained for almost ten years, maturing as a Yiddish poet, publishing his poems, ballads, fables, and translations in leading dailies, periodicals, and literary almanacs. In his early 30s, he undertook to translate the Bible into a modern Yiddish which would combine scholarly precision with simple idiomatic language, a task to which he devoted the rest of his life. While at work on this translation, he prepared, together with Charles D. Spivak, his physician and the co-founder of the sanatorium, a Yiddish dictionary, first published in 1911, which defined about 4, 000 Hebrew and Aramaic words used in Yiddish and which went through many editions as a basic reference work. Returning to New York in 1909, Yehoash had to struggle to make a living, even though his fame was worldwide and Yiddish periodicals in many lands gladly published his contributions. In January 1914, he left for Erez Israel and settled in Rehovot. He mastered classical Arabic and translated portions of the Koran and Arabian tales into Yiddish. When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, he returned to New York and published the story of his experiences in three volumes of travel sketches, Fun New York biz Rekhovot un Tsurik (From New York to Rehovot and Back, 191718; Eng. The Feet of the Messenger, 1923) . His sojourn in Erez Israel as well as his knowledge of Arabic proved useful to him in his work on the translation of the Bible. Although he had published a Yiddish rendering of several biblical books including Isaiah and Job in 1910, he realized the inadequacy of this initial attempt and began anew. His more adequate rendering, starting with Genesis, appeared in installments in the New York daily Der Tog from 1922. At the time of his death only the Pentateuch translation had been published, but the rest of the biblical books were printed from his manuscripts. His version was hailed as a contribution of national significance. The translator drew upon idiomatic treasures of various Yiddish dialects, upon the Khumesh-Taytsh (the Old Yiddish, word-for-word translation of Pentateuch) , vocabulary used by melammedim in Ashkenazi schools for many generations, and expressions of the Ze'enah u-Re'enah (Tsene-Rene) , with its archaic patina. Yehoash was thus able to retain the rhythm and flavor of the Hebrew to a larger extent than preceding Bible translators. The two-volume edition, with parallel Hebrew and Yiddish texts, distributed in tens of thousands of copies, became a standard work for Yiddish-speaking homes throughout the world. In 1949, Mordecai Kosover edited Yehoash's notes to the Bible, which afforded an insight into the translator's many years of wrestling with the sacred text. Yehoash, who also translated Longfellow's Hiawatha and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam into Yiddish, was far ahead of his time in terms of his own poetry. When the first edition of his Gezamelte Lider (Collected Poems) appeared in 1907, he was widely hailed as a first-rank artist. His lyrics were reprinted in anthologies and school texts, and were translated into many languages. An English translation, Poems of Yehoash, by Isidore Goldstick, appeared in 1952, and a Hebrew version (1957) was a cooperative venture by a number of significant Hebrew writers, including Jacob Fichmann and Dov Sadan. Yehoash's two later lyric volumes (1919 and 1921) linked him with Inzikhism, the modernist trend of introspection in post-World War I Yiddish poetry, the leaders of which acclaimed him as their forerunner. Yehoash gave expression in his lyrics to his awareness of a divine force permeating the universe. He re-imagined in verse biblical and post-biblical legends, tales from medieval Jewish chronicles, and hasidic lore, versified fables from the Talmud, Aesop, La Fontaine, and Lessing, and created new fables of his own. He wrote romantic, ghostly ballads, but he also felt the spell of Peretz, his lifelong friend, and strove for classical purity and perfection in rhythm and rhyme. Yehoash also influenced American Jewish poetry in English, notably the modernist work of Louis Zukofsky. (EJ 2007) Subjects: Yiddish literature - Palestine. Palestine -Description and travel. Authors, Yiddish - New York (State) - Biography. Authors, Yiddish - Israel - Biography. Light wear to cloth, light soiling to outer edges. Very Good Condition. (YID-16-10A)
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Sluyser, Meyer; Althoff, Lex (Photographer)
JODEN IN NOOD!
Original pictorial wrappers, starting. 8vo. 76, 8 pages; 22 cm. In Dutch. Title translates to Jews in Crisis! Illustrated with 8-page series of photomontages. Dutch journalist and resistance fighter Adrian Aloijsius Felix (Lex) Althoff (1904-43) displays his avante garde photographic style in this publication that sought to bring attention to the poverty of the Jews of Poland. The cropped and stylized images here depict Jewish genre scenes in creative compositions. Interestingly, a photograph of the Grand Rabbi of Munkacs, Chaim Elazar Spira (the Minchas Elazar) appears on the final page. SUBJECT(S) : Polish Jews, Poverty, Photographs. OCLC lists 14 holdings worldwide. A copy sold at auction for over USD 600 (with commissions) in 2015. Old tape stains on margin of title page. Some dampstaining. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Library stamp. Very good condition. (SPEC-44-8)
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(xt) Cohen, Israel
VILNA
12mo. 531 pages. In English . Holocaust-era imprint on Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania, which was the vibrant core of Eastern European Jewish life. Distinguished British historian, Israel Cohen, opens with the legend of the origin of Vilna in 1322 and traces the history of its Jewish community through vivid portraits of scholars, heroes, and leaders. The result is a book based on scholarship, yet full, too, of wonderful unforgettable stories. (Publishers Description) . SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- History. Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Ethnic relations. Slight toning and rubbing. Very good + condition. (Comhist-1-8A)
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The Committee For The Publication Of the Jews In Poland
DI YIDN IN POYLN = THE JEWS IN POLAND VOL. 1 [COMPLETE NO MORE ISSUED]
Original boards. 4to. Xxviii, 890 pages; 31 cm. In Yiddish with added English title page. Title translates to The Jews in Poland Vol. 1. Written just after the Holocaust. SUBJECT (S) : Polish Jews, Holocaust, WWII. Very minimal edgewear. Very minimal rubbing and staining. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-134-74)
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(Xt) Palanque Jean-Remy
ESSAI SUR LA PREFECTURE DU PRETOIRE BU BAS - EMPIRE
1st edition, original wrappers, vii, 144 pages, heavy wear and toning to wrappers, inside very good condition, Good Condition Overall (AC-4-14)
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Gennady Estraikh
SOVIET YIDDISH: LANGUAGE-PLANNING AND LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT (OXFORD MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE MONOGRAPHS)
1st edition, original cloth with dustjacket, 12mo, 217 pages. This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s. Light scratches on dustjacket, almost mint condition, Very Good+ Condition Overall (AC-4-18)
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Gottlieb, Maurycy; Kayser, Stephen S.
PAINTINGS BY MAURYCY GOTTLIEB: A MEMORIAL EXHIBIT COMMEMORATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 19, 1956.
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 16 pages. Includes illustrations and portrait; 19 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. / Cover title: Maurycy Gottlieb 1856-1879. "Maurycy Gottlieb's life story [by] Stephen S. Kayser": pages 6-14./ Includes bibliographical references (page 15) . "Among the founders of modern Jewish art, Maurycy Gottlieb [18561879] is prized in Poland as one of the most talented students of the great national artist Jan Matejko....His Jewish education was not extensive, though he attended heder.... In the course of his brief life he studied at the art schools of Vienna, Kraków, and Munich, and counted among his teachers some of the prominent academic artists of the 1870s. He was not the first Polish Jew to become an artist, but perhaps was the first to aspire to be both a Polish and a Jewish artist. Inspired by the dramatic national historical paintings of Matejko, he too tried his hand at depicting scenes from Polands past and also executed several paintings in the popular orientalist fashion. Yet he also painted a number of works with overtly Jewish subject matter, including a scene of a Jewish wedding, two paintings of the Jewish heterodox philosopher Uriel da Costa, illustrations to Gotthold Lessings play Nathan der Weise (Nathan the Wise) , portraits of several prominent contemporary Jewish figures, and depictions of famous Jewish literary figures (Shylock and Jessica, and Jankiel the musician from Adam Mickiewiczs Pan Tadeusz) . He also produced a number of fascinating and revealing self-portraits, one in the guise of a Polish nobleman, another in Arab dress, and yet another in the clothing of the central European bourgeoisie. His most famous work is his large painting Jews Praying in the Synagogue on the Day of Atonement, executed in 1878....For his Jewish contemporaries, Gottlieb was living proof that Jews could succeed in the plastic arts, just as they had succeeded in literature and music, while Poles praised his patriotism and his efforts to make a place for himself in the world of Polish culture. After his untimely death from complications deriving from a throat infection at the age of 23, Jewish assimilationists, Polish advocates of Jewish acculturation, and representatives of the new Jewish nationalism all claimed him as their own. Gottliebs reputation was kept alive in Poland by several important exhibitions in the interwar period. In Israel his posthumous reputation was greatly enhanced by an exhibition held in 1991, and by the publication of the catalog to this show. There and throughout the Jewish world Gottlieb has come to be regarded not only as a father of Jewish national art, but also as an important witness to the rich Jewish spiritual heritage of Eastern Europe that was destroyed by the Nazis" (YIVO, 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Gottlieb, Maurycy, 1856-1879 -- Exhibitions. Exhibition catalogs. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. OCLC: 27112026.Very Good Condition. (AC-4-23)
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Ilf, A. I. ; Schneider, Ann
GRISHA BRUSKIN: LIFE IS EVERYWHERE
1st edition. Original cloth with dust jacket. Oversized, 31 x 26 cm, 276 pages. Inscribed by artist Bruskin on front end paper, with an original drawing. Stunning exhibition catalog in large format oversized black hardcover and illustrated thick paper dustjacket. This book was published to accompany an important show of the artist's works in the State Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the State Russian Museum in St. Peterburg and the Ludwig Museum. 276 pp. With 326 ills. (245 col. ) . The book measures 31 x 26 cm. Grisha Bruskin is a Jewish-Russian painter whose recent work has been an attempt to re-energize the traditionally Russian medium of painting on porcelain. Combining text and image, these figuative works follow in the tradition of such Russian masters as Kandinsky, Malevich, and others. Bruskin is represented by the Marlborough Gallery in New York, where he now lives and works. Essays by Evgeny Barabanov, Eleanor Heartney, and Hans-Peter Riese. Light scuffing on bottom edge of cover and previous owners stamp on copyright page, otherwise near new condition, Overall Very Good Condition. Exhibition program laid in (AC-4-22)
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