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1830Later Cloth. 12mo. 88 [i. E. 176]; 131 [i. E. 262] pages. 18 cm. Two volumes in one. In Hebrew. Running title: Tikun lel Shavu? Ot. With: Seder Tikun lel Hosha? Na raba. Zultsbakh: Z. Arnshtain, 1830. Printed in Sulzbach at the press of Arnstein & Sons, begun by Seckel Arnstein in 1751 after his ancestor Ahron Fraenkel in 1645, who established a printing press business in 1699. Seckel Arnstein continued the business of printing of Hebrew bibles, which became famous all over Central and Eastern Europe under the name S. Arnstein & Sons. Bound in later cloth; printed on fine ragpaper. Subjects: Hoshana Rabba - Liturgy - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts. Hoshana Rabba - Liturgy. Judaism - Liturgy. Shavuot - Liturgy - Texts. Liturgy and ritual. Hosha'nah Rabbah readings. 1830. Shavuot readings. 1830. One listing for the 1830 edition (Univ Michigan) on OCLC; five other holdings for editions from 1827-1835. Light foxing to pages; otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-51)
19071st Edition, Original Printed Paper Wrappers, 54 pages. Includes portrait of the author; 19 cm. Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni (18701908) was born in Kaunas, in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) , to a petty bourgeois family of Lithuanian Jews . In 1898, his parents were killed in a pogrom . Gershuni was a socialist and a founding member of the Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia. This led to his arrest in 1900 by the Okhrana (secret police. After his release he joined with fellow revolutionaries including Catherine Breshkovsky, Victor Chernov, Alexander Kerensky and Yevno Azef to establish the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1901. Gershuni also founded the SR Combat Organization in 1902, which planned and executed the assassination of Dmitry Sipyagin, the Minister of Interior, in April 1902 and of N. M. Bogdanovich, the Governor of Ufa, in May 1903. They failed to assassinate Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Obolensky, the Governor of Kharkov, in July 1902. Gershuni was unaware that Yevno Azef, his deputy, was working as an Okhrana spy. In May 1903, Gershuni was arrested in Kiev. In February 1904, Gershuni was tried by a military court in Saint Petersburg and received a death sentence, which later was reduced to life imprisonment at a hard labour camp by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. In 1906, he hid in a barrel of sauerkraut and escaped from the Akatuy katorga to China. From China he traveled to Japan and the United States, giving speeches from San Francisco to New York City in support of the socialist-revolutionary causes. In Chicago he met Jane Addams. He returned to Europe in February 1907 in time for the Second Extraordinary Party conference of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. There he continued to argue for a campaign of terror to overthrow the Tsarist Empire in Russia (Wikipedia) . SUBJECT(S) : Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography. Exiles -- Revolutionaries. OCLC: 13419225 OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. (KH-8-72 BLOR)
19281st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 89, 111 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Literature-Lore. " Two parts: Ershter teyl: Elementn fun ritm un stil -- Tsveyter tley: Geboy fun Kinstlerishn verk un literarishe zshanren. Hofstein (1889-1952) was a prominent Russian-Yiddish poet. He rose to prominence through his elegies of the Jewish communities that suffered during the White pogroms of 1922, many of which were illustrated by Marc Chagall. He emigrated to Palestine in 1923 as a result of the official banning of Hebrew and subsequent persecution of Hebrew writers. He ultimately returned in 1939 and joined the Communist Party. Hofstein was executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets in 1952, along with 12 other Yiddish writers and artists (Wikipedia, 2019) . SUBJECTS: Yiddish language -- Rhetoric. Poetics. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC: 19306025) . Spine rebacked. Boards are worn and browning. Contents very good. (YID-33-72-EJLXGG'o)
19401st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 160pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Sung" or "Songs" Holocaust-era Poetry. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman, who is featured in Hillel Kozovskys CEtait lEpoque ou lOn a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, [appearing in French Translation in Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s (National Museum of American Art, 1996). Malka Lee (1904- 1976) "was an American poet and author. She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of it about her experience of observing the Holocaust from the safety of the United States" (Wikipedia). OCLC: 19307681 Touch of wear, Very Good Condition, a beautiful inscribed copy (Yid-26-8E-AELX-'+) x
19451st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 159, [1] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Lamentations of our Time." Holocaust-era Poetry. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman, who is featured in Hillel Kozovskys CEtait lEpoque ou lOn a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, [appearing in French Translation in Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s (National Museum of American Art, 1996). Malka Lee (1904- 1976) "was an American poet and author. She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of it about her experience of observing the Holocaust from the safety of the United States" (Wikipedia). OCLC 11430181. Touch of wear, Very Good Condition, a beautiful inscribed copy (Yid-26-8C-AELX-'+) xx
19451st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 159, [1] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Lamentations of our Time." Holocaust-era Poetry. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman, who is featured in Hillel Kozovskys CEtait lEpoque ou lOn a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, [appearing in French Translation in Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s (National Museum of American Art, 1996). Malka Lee (1904- 1976) "was an American poet and author. She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of it about her experience of observing the Holocaust from the safety of the United States" (Wikipedia). OCLC 11430181. Wear to edges of cover, about Very Good- Condition, a beautiful inscribed copy (Yid-26-8D-AELX-'+) xx
1856Original quarter leather. 8vo. 68; 115; 79; IV, 85 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Principally in German. 'Phoenician Studies'. Contains six fold out charts (housed at the rear of each volume) . Volume one published 1856, volume two, 1857, volume three, 1864, volume four, 1870. Moritz Abraham Levy (1817-1872) , German Orientalist ... Having received a rabbinical education, he became teacher in the Synagogen-Gemeinde of Breslau, where he was active for nearly thirty years. For his scientific labors he received from the King of Prussia, in 1865, the title of professor. Levy was preeminent in the field of Semitic paleography. He was the first person after Gesenius to treat the subject in a comprehensive manner. In the deciphering and interpretation of Phenician, old Hebrew, Punic, Aramaic, Himyaritic, and later Hebrew coins, seals, gems, and monuments his peculiar intuition guided him more surely than mere philological knowledge did others; such, for example, was the case with his deduction from the inscriptions found on the Hauran that at the beginning of the Christian era an Arabic people lived there which used the Aramaic language and alphabet. - 1906 JE. Contents: 1. Hft. Erklärung der grossen sidonischen und anderer phönizischen inschriften. Die ältesten formen des phönizischen alphabets und das prinzip der schriftbildung. --2. Hft. Herr professor Ewald nochmals als Punier gewürdigt. Backsteine, gemmen und siegel aus Mesopotamien mit phönizischer (altsemitischer) schrift. Erklärung sämmtlicher neuphönizischer inschriften. --3. Hft. Neue cyprische inschriften. Die sechste inschrift von Athen. Inschrift von Ipsambul. Eine zweite inschrift von Sidon. Drei inschriften von Umm-el-Awamid. Eine dreisprachige inschrift aus Sardinien. Neunzig carthagische inschriften. Unedirte neuphönizische inschriften aus Nordafrika. 2 unedirte siegelsteine. --4. Hft. Uebersicht über die erscheinungen auf dem gebiete der phönizischen wissenschaft seit 1863. Revision einiger älteren denkmäler durch bessere copieen: Athen IV und VI, Melit III. Inschrift von Cossura und eine dritte von Saida (Sidon) Inschriften von Abydos in Aegypten. Inschriften aus Sardinien. Inschrift aus Spanien. Inschriften aus Nordafrika. Ergänzungen zum Phönizischen wörterbuche. Nachtrag. Subjects: Inscriptions, Phoenician. Phoenician language - Alphabet. Inscriptions, Phoenician. Phoenician language Alphabet. Light rubbing to leather backstrip; previous owners inscription on endpage and title page, light pen marks in margins on a few pages; third chart has a tear; otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-29)
First edition. Original wrappers. 4to. 48 + [4] pages. 32cm. In Yiddish. Final issue. Milgroym was published bi-monthly in separate Hebrew and Yiddish editions (The Hebrew editions were titled Rimon) from 1922-1924 for a total of 6 issues and "embraced the study, both retrospective and contemporary, of art in all its manifestations painting, sculpture, music, theatre. " In Geveb called Milgroym "arguably the most visually stunning of the interwar Yiddish journals." Each issue contains illustrations and literary works from a wide array of Jewish artists. Milgroym also published works by the likes of Chaim Nachman Bialik, Jacob Klatzkin, Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and A. Z. Idelson. For a detailed analysis of the importance and cultural context of Milgroym, see Naomi Brenner's excellent essay, "Milgroyms Cultural Context (https://ingeveb.org/blog/milgroym-s-cultural-context), part of In Geveb's series on Milgroym and other interwar Yiddish journals. She discusses this issue in particular in her essay, "Milgroym and Rimon, Fraternal Twins" (https://ingeveb.org/blog/milgroym-and-rimon-fraternal-twins). For more on Milgroym, see the In Geveb special issue dedicated to this wonderful periodical (https://ingeveb.org/issues/the-milgroym-project). SUBJECT(S):Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature Jewish arts -- Periodicals. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals -- Yiddish. Germany. Jüdische Kunst. OCLC: 1200783324. Wrappers are very lightly soiled and browning.Wear to spine. Internally Very Good. (ART-27-6C)
1946Original Cloth. 8vo. XVII, 184, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. 'Women in the Ghettos'. Contents: In di getos un untererd - Partizanen in kamf - Geshtaltn - Portretn - Parashutistn - Tsu di bregn fun heymland. Emphasizes women partisans and the ghetto resistance, entire section devoted to Hannah Senesh. Illustrated throughout. Compiled by Leib Spizman (1903-1963) , Yiddish writer, member of the Farband-Labor Zionist Orders national executive committee and of the secretariat of the World Congress for Jewish Culture, he came to the United States via Japan in 1940. Subjects: Jewish women in the Holocaust. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Senesh, Hannah, 1921-1944. OCLC: 18995782. Pen notations in Yiddish on 5 pages, otherwise Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-49-AELX)
19381st Yiddish Edition. Original publishers decorated cloth, 12mo, 114 pages ; 18 cm. In Yiddish. The translator, Itzik Feffer (1900 1952) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's purges During the Second World War, he was a military reporter with the rank of colonel and was vice chairman of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He and Solomon Mikhoels traveled to the United States in 1943 in a well-documented fund-raising trip. In 1948, after the assassination of the JAC Chairman Solomon Mikhoels, Feffer, along with other JAC members, was arrested and accused of treason. Feffer had been an informer for the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB) since 1943. FeFfer reportedly cooperated with the investigation, providing false information that would lead to the arrest and indictment of over a hundred people, but at the trial, he made openly nationalistic statements and expressed pride in his Jewish identity. Feffer had also allegedly been one of the most loyal and conformist Yiddish poets, who had helped to enforce strict ideological control over other Yiddish writers, and had a history of denouncing colleagues for their nationalistic hysteria. However, in 1952, Feffer, along with other defendants, was tried at a closed JAC trial, and executed on August 12, 1952, at Lubyanka prison ..The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943, in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States. After the rally, Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda Robeson, befriended Feffer and Mikhoels. Six years later, in June 1949, during the 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of Alexander Pushkin, Robeson visited the Soviet Union to sing in concert. According to David Horowitz: In America, the question "What happened to Itzik Feffer?" entered the currency of political debate. There was talk in intellectual circles that Jews were being killed in a new Soviet purge and that Feffer was one of them. It was to quell such rumors that Robeson asked to see his old friend, but he was told by Soviet officials that he would have to wait. Eventually, he was informed that the poet was vacationing in the Crimea and would see him as soon as he returned. The reality was that Feffer had already been in prison for a half year, and his Soviet captors did not want to bring him to Robeson immediately because he had become emaciated from lack of food. While Robeson waited in Moscow, Stalin's police brought Feffer out of prison, put him the care of doctors, and began fattening him up for the interview. When he looked sufficiently healthy, he was brought to Moscow. The two men met in a room that was under secret surveillance. Feffer knew he could not speak freely. When Robeson asked how he was, he drew his finger nervously across his throat and motioned with his eyes and lips to his American comrade. They're goin to kill us, he said. When you return to America you must speak out and save us. During his concert in Tchaikovsky Hall on June 14 - which was broadcast across the entire country - Robeson publicly paid tribute to Feffer and the late Mikhoels, singing the Vilna Partisan song Zog Nit Keynmol in both Russian and Yiddish .Feffer was a prolific poet who wrote almost exclusively in Yiddish, and his poems were widely translated into Russian and Ukrainian. He is considered one of the greatest Soviet poets in the Yiddish language and his poems were widely admired inside and outside Russia (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECT(S): Yiddish literature -- Translations from Russian. Russian literature. OCLC: 19304065. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide, but 13 of these are in a listing which indicates Also issued online, so some (or many of these?) may be online access copies. Very Good Condition, a beautiful copy. (yid-41-82A)
19311st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 109 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Inscribed by author. Title translates to Toward Purity: Lyrical Prose. Sternberg (1889-1957) was a renowned Yiddish poet and author. Some of his works were translated into English. SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature. OCLC Number: 872520315. Illustrated boards show slight damp. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-40-81)
1928Later Cloth. 4to. XIII, 903 pages. 27 cm. First edition. In Yiddish; with added title page in German and Belorussian (Zeitschrift = Chasopis) , abstracts in German. Band 2-3, 1928. Academic journal of the Jewish department at the Institute of Belorussian Culture, devoted to Jewish history, folklore, and Yiddish language and literature. Contains maps and materials for a Yiddish dialect atlas and various essays on Yiddish philology, the Jewish workers movement in Belorussia, essay on Sabattai Zevi, etc. Contributions from scholars outside the Soviet Union include essays from Maks Erik, Zalman Reizin, and Max Weinreich. Subjects: Jews - Periodicals. Yiddish literature - Periodicals. Yiddish language - Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish language. Yiddish literature. OCLC lists 27 copies. Rebacked in later cloth, original wraps pastedown; some pages previously repaired with tape; overall clean and fresh. Good condition. (YID-22-49)
1919réf. 42896No 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. "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." 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. 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 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
1895réf. 43079Warsaw: 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.” 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. “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. 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. SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 992802478. 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
1912réf. 224381912. Schwartz Isidor Publisher. Vi Azoy Tsu Veren a Sitizen. / The Citizen: A Guide to Naturalization. All Important Questions and Answers Printed in Hebrew and Yiddish Also Translations in Plain English Which You are to Know When Applying for Your Final Citizen Papers. Brooklyn: Aroysgegeben fun Isidor Schwartz / Published by Isidor Schwartz n.d. after 1912. Only edition. 31 page. Text in English and Yiddish both transliterated and Hebrew script. 6" x 4.5. Stapled pamphlet in printe wrappers. An immigrant-era Yiddish-English naturalization guide for Jewish immigrants preparing to become U.S. citizens published by Isidor Schwartz in Brooklyn. This vernacular instructional manual contains sample questions and answers in three formats: English Yiddish in Hebrew script and transliterated English in Latin script referred to on the cover as "Jewish-English". Designed for oral preparation it walks new arrivals through both general and localized questions commonly asked at the naturalization interview particularly for applicants in New York. Questions range from general American civics-"How does a bill become a law"-to specific regional knowledge-"What is the capital of New York State" and "How many stars has the American flag" The answer is noted as "Forty-eight stars" dating the publication to after Arizona and New Mexico's 1912 admission but before Alaska and Hawaii. The phrasing used-"We vote for the candidate who is in our opinion best fitted to occupy the office he wishes to be elected to"-illustrates the pamphlet's focus on simplified phonetic civic literacy. A vital artifact of Jewish immigrant life and Americanization in the early 20th century this pamphlet exemplifies how Jewish community publishers mediated state bureaucracies for recent arrivals. Yiddish language guides like this one offered more than instruction-they were part of the infrastructure of mutual aid and cultural transition particularly within New York's dense immigrant communities. Fragile condition with moderate chipping and edgewear to front and rear wrappers including some closed tears and loss at corners; interior pages clean and legible. Overall good condition. A scarce and historically significant publication supporting Jewish American integration during a peak period of Yiddish-speaking immigration; OCLC locates only 8 institutional holdings worldwide. unknown
1963IN HEBREW AND YIDDISH. Contains photos in b&w. 220x275 mm. Gilt hardcover. Cover stained and slightly bumped. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
réf. 65779, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 924 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 tables b/w., Language: French. ISBN 9782503569741.
1923TEXT IN YIDDISH, with table headings, captions and contents pages (Inhalts-Verzeichnis) IN GERMAN. RARE FOUR VOLUMES (No.1 through 4 BOUND TOGETHER) of a journal of Jewish demographics founded by the World Jewish Congress in order to better learn about, and thus better help the impoverished Jewish communities. Published from 1923 to 1924, and collected in one volume in 1924, the journal contains data on the Jews of the European countries, the USA, North and South Africa, Australia and New-Zealand, Palestine, Syria and India. Among other data, the journal contains statistical information on the geographical distribution of Jews, distribution of income, ages and family size, along with data such as the fate of Jewish assets that were seized during the pogroms of the late 1910s. 300x230mm. 292 pages. Maroon cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Gilt lettering and decorations partly peeled. Cover curved. Cover and spine rubbed and stained. Cover corners and bottom edge bumped. Spine edges bumped and tattered/peeling. Front whitepages coming loose from binding. Binding visible on front inner cover and between front whitepage and title-page. Front whitepage fore edge slightly torn. Pages 289-292 and rear whitepage detached from binding. Library stamp on pre-title and title-pages, and page 292. Small ink inscriptions on title-page and page 292. Pages yellowing/browning. [SUMMARY]: This valuable collection of hard data on Jewish life prior to the Holocaust is otherwise in good condition.
1906réf. 43217London: "Arbayter fraynd 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards 8vo xiii 426 pages 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.” Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.” Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references. “During his long exile Kropotkin wrote a series of influential works the most important being ‘Paroles d’un révolté’ 1885; “Words of a Rebel”.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. 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.” SUBJECTS: Anarchism. OCLC: 19303211. Ex-library with early 19th Century left-wing library markings see photos. Good- Condition YID-48-41-LXCCGG-’e. London: "Arbayter fraynd unknown
1906réf. 43219London: "Arbayter fraynd 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards 8vo xiii 426 pages 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.” Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.” Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references. “During his long exile Kropotkin wrote a series of influential works the most important being ‘Paroles d’un révolté’ 1885; “Words of a Rebel”.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. 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.” SUBJECTS: Anarchism. OCLC: 19303211. Spine is taped.Tight binding but text block is clean and intact. Good Condition YID-48-40-LXCCGG-’e. London: "Arbayter fraynd unknown
1938réf. 43520No Place Paris: No Publisher The Bund 1938. No Date 1938. 1st edition. Single fold pamphlet 12mo 3 pages. Includes photo on cover & inside. All text in Yiddish. Title translates as "We are Coming. A Sound-Film from the Children's Sanatorium Vladimir Medem in Miedzshin" a neighborhood in Warsaw. Promotional pamphlet for use in France and Belgium and possibly elsewhere for Aleksander Ford's 1936 film re-released in 1937-1938 for fundraising purposes on the children of the Medem Sanatorium entitled "Mir Kumen On" which translates literally as "We are Coming." For the English release of the film the title was instead translated as "Children Must Laugh;" it is viewable online at www.youtube.com/watchv=vozD_XbGHGA. The restored film was featured at the Museum of Modern Art's To Save and Project: The 14th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation in 2016. "A rare record of Jewish life in Poland before World War II this 1936 film Mir Kumen Onwas produced in several language versions as an international fundraiser for the Medem Sanatorium near Warsaw a clinic sponsored by the General Union of Jewish Workers the Bund that provided care and an escape from urban poverty for some 10000 children between 1926 and 1939. Directed in a Soviet-influenced style by Alexander Ford a committed Communist who later became the head of Poland's National Film School the film follows three children as they gradually overcome their emotional withdrawal and distrust and enter the communal life of the institution" MoMA 2016. From the pamphlet text: "Narrow and dark streets of Greater Warsaw. Crowded and wet attics attics and cellars. 'Apartments' filled with people who lack mother's breasts for the always screaming child. An unemployed father. And - children everywhere many children. Children - withered rickety with crooked legs sunken chests and pale faces they - the children - know all the bitterness of life from a very early age. Often very often they are already 'earners' themselves - in a poor workshop in the street or until late at night they sell th apples and 'hot warm bagels'. And now from this environment the children arrive at the Medem sanatorium: Hanale from the Jewish secular school the pale Zalmanka from Cheder and Laser - the bagel seller. In the beginning everything is strange to them in the 'strange' Medem-Sanatorium: no one punishes no one shouts no one is angry. Everything is friendly to them everyone strives to understand them as their best friend. Joy and freedom mixed with free independent work rule over everything here. And our three heroes quickly got used to the new life-forms. They flourish. They become stronger physically and mentally they actively participate in the work of the 'self-management' of children they begin to understand that the world does not have to be like that as they realized in Warsaw that they can and must be someone else someone free someone equal someone beautiful. The children are taken in by the spirit of true friendship they begin to understand that person's suffering and get an aspiration to help that person. And when their daily newspaper brings news that the coal miners are on strike in Zaglembia that their children are starving they are deeply moved. Because - who can understand better than them what a strike means and feel more than them what is called hunger And at a general meeting the children according to their own proposal give each one a day of their time in the sanatorium so that the 180 children - create 180 days for their brothers in Zaglembia Times flies in the sanatorium. And now we see our 3 'heroes' as they drive off back home. The faces of all 3 are drawn. A deep sadness lies on the young childish faces." Both the pamphlet and the film end with the song "Mir Kumen On"--We Are Coming-the words by Nokhem Yud 1888-1966 and music by Yankl Troupianski 1909-1944. The film's theme song was also used by Camp Hemshekh in New York as its anthem in the 1960s & 1970s. "Everything in the film is factual and authentic. There is not a single artist in the film - everything is performed by the participating children of the Medem Sanatorium." We were unable to locate any copies using OCLC nor with a google search. An unrecorded promotional brochure for a very important film. Near Fine Condition. Very important. Exceedingly rare. PBERL-1-9-XX. No Place [Paris?]: No Publisher [The Bund?] unknown
1967réf. 43562Nyu-York New York: Tsiko 1967. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original printed cloth 8vo 412 pages. 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "At the Gate: A Novel." Inscribed on title page by the author "Roman fun dem lebn in Yis´roel." Kadya Molodowsky was a major figure in the Yiddish literary scene in Warsaw from the 1920s through 1935 and in New York from 1935 until her death in 1975. A teacher in the Yiddish schools in Warsaw as a young woman she was best known for her children's poems. In the United States she wrote for the Yiddish press and founded and edited a journal Sviva Surroundings which she published for three decades. Living in Israel 1948-52 she founded and edited a journal Heym. She published six major books of poems 1927-1965 novels short stories plays and essays. Recurrent themes in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls Jewish tradition in the face of modernity Israel and the Holocaust. OCLC: 11759957. Very Good Condition. An attractive inscribed work by a leading female Yiddish writer. BER-1-7. Nyu-York [New York]: Tsiko hardcover
19071st 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-+)
19341st 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)
1936Title translates as Mendele Anthology: Published for the 100th Birthday of MMS. A nazi-era Yiddish language study book on Mendele Mokher Sefarim, produced by the children's publishers Grinke Beymelekh ("Green Saplings"). Mendele Mokher Seforim (1835-1917) is revered as the grandfather of Yiddish literature for his innovations in laying a new literary framework for Yiddish. His work realistically portrayed Jewish life with honesty and without judgment and depicted the world of the shtetl [village] with all its poverty and decay; all its joy and poetry. Mendele was born in Belorussia (Belarus) and came from a comfortable family of Lithuanian rabbis. He initially wrote in Hebrew and was a proponent of the Haskalah, but started writing writing in Yiddish in the 1860s (Stevens, 2019). SUBJECTS: Yiddish-language study. OCLC Number:234575366. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (NLI, YIVO, Harvard, NYBC, HUC). Spine rebacked with tape, paper toning, a bit fragile at the edges with some light damp stains. Pages and wrappers are edge worn with no loss to contents. About Good- Condition. Scarce. (YID-33-63-'elx)
