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1947Original Wraps. 4to. 6 pages. 31 cm. First edition. With 14 illustrations (black and white photographs) . January 1947 issue (no number or volume given) of the ORT Newsletter. Contains the following articles: ORT goes to Sea Maritime Projects set up in England, France (Training ship for Refugees) , ORT at a Glance (statistical figures for projects and trainees globally) , La Guardia Hails ORT Work in Displaced Persons Camps, 6.5 million Quota Set for 1947 by World Conference, Program in D. P. Camps Grows; Reports from Other Places Given, Machines Nazi Stole Go to Polish Schools, Building a New Life in Farm School (about the La Roche, France, training project) , D. P. 's Trained as Dental Mechanics Hired by UNRRA for Camp Work, Hochman Finds Training Effective in Rehabilitating Displaced Persons (with discussion of war orphans) , 3.5 thousand Refugees in U. S. Trained in New York, Pierre Dreyfus Dies, ORT and Youth Aliyah Establish Agreeement for Training Pioneers for Palestine, Over 2, 000 Trained in Schools in China, Youth Aliyah Group Gets Training in Belgian Home; also articles on ORT work in Rumania, Belgium, Hungary, England, Poland, Holland, Switzerland; also articles on fundraising activities, and commemoration of the good work, done by members of the American ORT federation. Subjects: Jews - Education - Periodicals. Jews - United States Periodicals. None listed on OCLC (Harvard, and Natl Libr Israel, do not list any issues past 1945) . Light edge wear, light soiling throughout, overall fresh and clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-113-24)
1950Original Wraps. Folio. 3 pages. 36 cm. First edition. Large single sided mimeographed typewritten newsletter entitled ORT Highlights. Number 54, New York, 212 Fifth Avenue, May 11, 1950; no publisher given, author, etc. Contains a list of brief articles under the following headings: A Farewell Message to Mme. Roubach, North African Jews Prepare for Emigration to Israel, ORT Leaders Interview Former French Prime Minister, Rehabilitation Center in Austria, Austrian ORT Students Present Birthday Gift to President Chaim Weizmann, ORT Schools in British Zone Germany Will Operate After July 1st, Berlin ORT School Wins Praise at Exhibition, American ORT Federation Elects New Leaders (George J. Mintzer and Julius Hochman) . Subjects: World ORT Union. Jews - Education - Periodicals. Jews - United States Periodicals. None listed on OCLC. Edges damaged and worn, with minor text loss to bottom sentences of pages 1 and 2. Otherwise clean. Good - condition. (HOLO2-113-25)
1952Original Wraps. 4to. 9 pages. 30 cm. First edition. With two illustrations. Mimeographed single sided typewritten pages. Title lists ORT Chronicle, Chronique, Chronik (also ORT Khronik in Yiddish) (possibly also issued in Yiddish and French, judging by library listings) . Issued by the Central Information Service of the ORT Union, Geneva, 6, rue Eynard. Contains the following: Not Revealed by Statistics (on the impact of ORT in Iran and Tunisia beyond number of students trained) , ORT Negotiations in New York Concluded, United States: Resolution by American Misrachi Meeting, Israel: Eloquent Figures, New Vocational Courses, Cross-Country Pedagogical Conferences, South Africa: Aptitudes Tested by Practice, Practical Work Launched in Port Elizabeth, First Graduate of Central ORT Institute Engaged as Instructors, Iran: Big Chanukah Party of ORT in Teheran, Teheran ORT Schools visted by Representative of US Department of Labor, Holland: Representative of Public Vocational Training in Praise of ORT, France: Vocational Centre Montreuil, Technical and Pedagogical Bulletin, and Press Review. Subjects: World ORT Union - Periodicals. Jews - Switzerland - Periodicals. Jews - Switzerland - Economic conditions - Periodicals. OCLC lists 3 copies (Natl Libr Israel; Brandeis under the title Ort Khronik; Schwizerisches Sozialarchiv under title ORT Chronik; NYPL lacks this issue but has later issues 142-158) . Rear eight pages sunbleached, aged, and worn at edges, with chipping to edges. Fragile at edges. Otherwise fresh and clean. Good - condition. (HOLO2-113-26)
1941Original wraps. 4to. 11 pages. 28 cm. First edition. Typewritten Report, by Engineer M. M. Belogousky, Collaborator of the Training Section, Secretary to the Technical Council of the Central Board of World ORT Union. Report on the ORT Schools and Training Courses in France, from the period 1933-39 (training German Jewish Refugees after the advent of Hitler) , with details of the type of courses, those involved, and a schematic outline of the courses given in this period; from the period 1939-1940, when France entered the war, the demand for skilled workers in the 'national defense' industries, the change in situation of refugees and foreign workers, cooperation with MAT-FORD Manufactory (the French Ford) and an exchange of training materials for graduates, inauguration of courses in Lyons at the time of the German invasion, the evacuation of Paris; the period 1940-1941, from the period of the 'French National Revolution' after the armistice with Germany and the imposition of strict requirements on ORT schools, the need for new facilities outside Paris, etc. , the work accomplished since October 1940, with new facilities opened in various towns and cities, the courses offered are listed; immediate difficulties of movement between towns is noted in detail, the granting of three 'circulating cards' permitting unrestricted movement across towns between facitlities for three engineers (Frenkel, Belogousky, Melamed) ; the establishment of ORT courses for people interned in concentration camps (camp Gurs, Argeles, Brens) , the difficulties ensuing, ORT's accomplished release of 150 boys from the camps who are learning a trade at the ORT boarding school in the Pyrenees; last sections of report titled: Constructive Help to Single Refugees, The Management and the Financing of Schools, The Kinds of Program of Studies, Study-Plan, the Pupil's Staff. Subjects: World ORT Union. Jewish refugees - Employment France. Refugees France 1933-1941. OCLC lists one copy (NYPL) . Light wear to edges, lightly aged, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-113-28)
1941Original wraps. 4to. 4 pages. 28 cm. First edition. Typewritten Report. Report on the newly founded ORT Technical School in Buenoes Aires, a carefully planned establishment for putting the Argentine-Jewish population on the level of productive industrial work, contributing to the industrial development of the Argentine Republic, and offering a source of pride on the part of the Jews of Argentina. Outlines the courses that have been established (courses for adolescents; courses for Adults) , equipment of the school, the staff, registration and conditions for admission, documents required for admission, reprint of articles on the ORT school printed in El Mundo, April 9th, and El Mundo Israelita (which describes the beneficial aspects of the training not only for the Argentine Jewish community, but also for newly arrived refugees) ; includes reprint of a letter of congratulation from Dr. Enrique Dickmann, member of parliament. Subjects: World ORT Union. ORT (Argentina) . ORT Training Buenos Aires. None listed on OCLC. Scarce. Light edge wear, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-113-29)
1938Original Wraps. 4to. 4; 4 pages. 32 cm. First edition. Two issues of the American Ort Journal. Volume 6, numbers 10 (November) and number 11 (December) 1938. Number 10 contains front full page portrait of B. Charney Vladeck, 1886-1938; with three articles in Tribute to B. Charney Vladeck; other articles read: Harold Altschul named Executive Vice-Chairman of ORT; notes from sections of Women's American ORT, I. L. G. W. Union Contributes five thousand to ORT, Mexican Jewry Aids ORT. Number 11 contains three illustrations (black and white photographs) , including a photograph of Albert Einstein at the ORT Exhibit in New York. Other articles titled: Plans Launched for Special Drive for Ort Funds, ORT Union Cables for Added Support, ORT-J. D. C. Drive in Montreal, B. Charney Vladeck One-Hundred Thousand Memorial Fund, Chicago ORT Launches Member Drive, 97 New Cities Contribute to ORT, Reports from sections of Women's American ORT and Junior American ORT, More Large Unions Aid ORT (shoe workers, painters, etc. ) , need of ORT in South America, ORT School in Paris. Subjects: American ORT Federation. Jews - United States - Periodicals. OCLC lists two holdings (Natl Libr Israel; Harvard) , none in New York. Light egde wear, lightly soiled, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-113-32)
Presume 1st edition. Unknown date or publisher [1950's? ]. Original wraps. 4to. [8] pages. 34 cm. First edition. In Dutch. Reproduction of eight ink drawings by Alfred Mazure on the subject of the Hongerwinter of 1944-1945, when thousands of Dutch civilians starved to death. Mazure, a comic book artist of the period, whose work was banned owing to his refusal to make nazi cartoons, worked in the soup kitchens during the Hunger Winter period; he drew these ink sketches at the time. Mazure left Holland postwar after being declared a collaborator, his work and support with the resistance notwithstanding. Subjects: Netherlands - History - German occupation, 1940-1945. None listed on OCLC. Scarce. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-113-50)
1946Later Boards. 8vo. 308, [2], [14] pages. 22 cm. First edition. First appearance. In Polish. With 14 pages of photographs at rear. Includes 100 pages of documents (nazi directives relating to the camps) . With summaries in French, Russian, and English outlining the history of Oswiecim. Contains preface from Waclaw Barcikowski, Friedman's 'To Jest Oswiecim', and 'Grupa Oswiecim' by noted poet, novelist and publicist Tadeusz Holuj (resistance member, he was deported to Auschwitz; and later served as secretary general of the International Auschwitz Committee) . Philip Friedman (19011960) , Polish Jewish historian. Friedman survived the Holocaust by hiding in Poland, but he lost his wife and a daughter. After 1944, he was appointed director of the Central Jewish Historical Commission (created by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland) , whose mission was to gather data on Nazi war crimes. In this capacity he not only collected testimonies and documentation but also supervised the publication of a number of pioneering studies, including his own on the concentration camp at Auschwitz. This work, To jest Oswiecim, was published in Warsaw in 1945 and appeared in an abridged English version as This Is Oswiecim (1946) . (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Bound in attractive later marbled boards; original wraps absent. Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . OCLC lists 15 copies. Pages aged, minor edge wear, otherwise clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-113-55)
1948Original Wraps. 8vo. (ie. 11) 24 cm. Offprint. Inscribed by the author ("your humble and obedient servant"). The Influence of Jean Bodins Republic on English Political Thought, in Medievalia et Humanistica, V, 1948. A short essay by Mosse detailing the impact of the political philosophy and conceptions of sovereignty of Jean Bodin on Elizabethan and Jacobean thought. A survey of the period literature, as well as contemporary scholarly studies; with interesting comparisons of the impact of Machiavelli and Bodin on the period. Subjects: Jean Bodin Political Philosophy English Thought. Light wear to wraps, overall fresh and clean. Very good condition. (MOSS-1-20A) Xxxx
1945Original Wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages. 22 cm. First Edition. In Dutch and English. Title translates as, Dutch Nationals Found In German Camps. First list of Dutch deportees and concentration camp survivors released by G. F. Ferwerda, Netherlands Commissioner for Repatriation. Lists of deportees, liberated from concentration-, and internment-camps only will be circularized by my London office from time to time. The lists are obtained from various sources and the identity of the persons concerned cannot always be checked without further investigation. It is, therefore, pointed out that the lists are of a provisional character, that in the confused state of affairs, existing in Germany, mistakes are unavoidable and the accuracy can in no way be guaranteed. (Preface) Subjects: Holocaust Concentration Camps. Repatriation. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide. (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation) Back wrapper detached. Previous marks from tape near back strip. Spined repaired. Shows edgewear and age toning. Good +condition. (HOLO-114-1)
1967Original Wrappers. 8vo. 24 pages. 21 cm. Illustrated. First Edition. Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement. Berlin (Germany) . Gefängnis Plötzensee. Germany -- Biography. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. (California State Univ. , Thousand Oaks Public Libr. , Indiana Univ. Of PA, Koninklijke Libr. , German Natl. Libr. , Topography of Terror Museum, Libr. For Research of History in Berlin, State Libr. Of Worms, Nanterre, Univ. Marburg. ) Light soiling to back cover top edge. Light shelf wear. Very good condition. (HOLO-114-14)
1947Original Wrappers. 4to. 39 pages. 30 cm. First Edition. In Polish. Title translates as, There Were More Deaths, Than Bread: Jednodniowka Released On the Occasion of the Exhibition Oswiecim accuses. " Jednodniowka publications are typically journals or pamphlets issued by organizations with no regular publications, but may also be published quarterly or on a semi-regular basis. Contains period advertisements. Journal containing poetry, prose and articles related to the conditions of Polish concentration camps. The Polski Zwiazek Bylych Wiezniów Politycznych Hitlerowskich Wiezien I Obozów Koncentracyjnych, (translates to Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps and Prisons) was formed in 1946, and existed until 1949. Later reformed in the 1990s the organization focuses on youth outreach and Holocaust education. Subjects: Holocaust. Concentration camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide. (Natl. Libr. Of Poland, Central Connecticut State University) Light soiling and age toning. Dramatic color cover illustration. Very good + condition. (HOLO-114-15)
1946Original Wrappers. 8vo. 23 pages. 22 cm. First Edition. Title translates as To Solve the Jewish Question. A post-war open appeal for an area of Jewish National Settlement. Subjects: Judaism. Zionism. Jewish Identity. Jewish Question. Some age toning and light shelf wear. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (HOLO-114-18)
1946Original Cloth. 8vo. IX, 369 pages. 24 cm. First edition. A historical survey of Jewish art; important text in the field. Profusely illustrated. Franz Landsberger, Born in Katowice in 1883, he grew up and studied in Breslau and subsequently in Berlin, Geneva and Munich. He specialized in art history; he was a lecturer at the Breslau University from 1912, and a professor there from 1918. He edited Polish art journals, published essays in 1926, and was considered the local authority in the field of art history. As an art expert and the manager of Berlin's Jewish museum, he was forced to leave Germany and was appointed a professor in Hebrew Union College and manager of the Jewish museum there, in Cincinnati. He passed away on March 17th, 1964. Subjects: Jewish art History. Contains bookplate of Steinhardt Family Library inside. Light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (ART-23-7)
1945Original Wraps. 8vo. 44 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Translated from the Hebrew by I. Halevy-Levin. Torah va'avodah library. With the publication of this booklet, we inaugurate our Rishonim Library. The object we have set ourselves in this series is to publish short biographies of the great Rabbinic figures of the past century, whose influence upon the course of Jewish national endeavor, though profound, has not always been adequately appreciated. - Introduction. Contents: Rabbi Samuel Mohilever, His life and work, by Rabbi J. L. Fishman. Rabbi Samuel Mohilever and the first Zionist congress, by Dr. J. Mohilever. Extract from Zionist Writings. Bibliography. The Defender of Ha' Aretz (translated from the original) by Rabbi Dr. S. M. Leherman. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Hibbat Zion. Mohilewer, Samuel, 1824-1898. OCLC lists 8 copies. Contains instutitional stamp of Jews College London Library on endpage and front wrap. Pages previously damp, light stains along edges; lightly soiled wraps. Otherwise fresh. Good condition. (SPEC-40-13)
1943Original Wraps. 8vo. 23 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Some Hebrew throughout. Torah va'avodah library; Festival series, no. 7. Frontispiece illustration by David Hillman, with illustrations throughout by Walter Herz. Contains various Talmudic and Midrashic discussions of Sukkah; with chapters on Rabbinic references and Gems from the Rabbis. Final section discusses the importance of the Sukkah and Eretz Israel. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Sukkot. OCLC lists 5 copies (Harvard, Univ Florida, Natl Libr Israel, British Libr, Ohio State) . Light soiling to wraps. Contains stamp dated 6 OCT 1943 on front cover of wrap. Internally fresh and clean. Good + condition. (SPEC-40-15)
1943Original Wraps. 8vo. 23 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Some Hebrew throughout. Torah va'avodah library; Festival series, no. 7. Frontispiece illustration by David Hillman, with illustrations throughout by Walter Herz. Contains various Talmudic and Midrashic discussions of Sukkah; with chapters on Rabbinic references and Gems from the Rabbis. Final section discusses the importance of the Sukkah and Eretz Israel. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (Bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Sukkot. OCLC lists 5 copies (Harvard, Univ Florida, Natl Libr Israel, British Libr, Ohio State) . Page edges wavy from previous damp. Internal damp stain in outer margins, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (SPEC-40-16)
1942Original Wraps. 8vo. 16 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In English with three pages of Hebrew at rear. Torah v'Avodah Library. Contains discussion of the significance and laws of the Feast, the Kindling of the Lights, and contains Hebrew passages from Talmud, Midrash, and Maimonides. With discussion of the celebration of the feast in Eretz Israel. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (Bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Hannukah. OCLC lists one copy (Natl Libr Israel) . Ex-libris stamp of Aron Owen (author of a short biography on Rashi) . Light soiling to wraps, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. Quite scarce. (SPEC-40-17)
1912Original Wraps. 8vo. 91 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Future of the Jews. ' A controversial work on the economic position of diaspora Jewry. Werner Sombart (18631941) , German political economist and sociologist. Born in Ermsleben, Sombart acquired a reputation through his work Der Moderne Kapitalismus (2 vols. , 1902, 1916) in which he traced the development of capitalism from the late Middle Ages. In 1917 he was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Berlin. He wrote two works on capitalism and the Jews: Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (1911; The Jews and Modern Capitalism, 1913, 1951) , and Die Zukunft der Juden (1912) which aroused considerable controversy. In Sombart's view, the Jews were the principal cause of the disruption of the medieval economic system and its replacement by capitalism. The Jews, he held, were foreigners and came up against the hostility of the guilds which controlled the commerce of the medieval cities. Consequently they sought to break away from the restrictive economic framework of city life and, by doing so, became the pioneers of international trade. In this way they helped to lay the foundation of the capitalist system. Sombart maintained that the Jewish intellect, 'concrete, stubborn, and systematic, ' was ideally suited to fostering a capitalist economy: 'When Israel appears upon the face of Europe, the place where it appears comes to life; and when it departs, everything which had previously flourished withers away. ' Such statements made for the ambivalent reception of Sombart's work among Jews at the time. Thus, while liberal Jews strongly criticized Sombart as an antisemite, others, particularly in the Zionist camp, praised him as a nonpartisan researcher and held up his theses as evidence of Jewish perseverance and as acknowledgement of the special contribution of the Jews. - EJ 2008. Subjects: Civilization - Jewish influences. Jews - Germany - Social conditions. Civilization - Jewish influences. Ethnic relations. Jews - Social conditions. Germany - Ethnic relations. Wraps bumped, slightly torn along backstrip, light soiling to outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-43-41)
1944Original Wrappers. 4to. 28 pages. 28cm. First Edition. Community bulletin containing wartime information regarding Ukraine and Ukrainian American immigrants. Featuring an article titled "The Ukrainian Struggle for Freedom" by noted American historian William Henry Chamberlin. "The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) was founded in 1940 to provide authoritative information about the plight of Ukrainians, as well as to represent the interests of the Ukrainian American community. [...]Throughout its history, the UCCA has raised U. S. Awareness of Ukraine as well as represented the interests of Ukrainian Americans before the government. Of its many achievements over the years, some highlights include: its work for the enactment of the law admitting displaced persons from Europe to America, which was adopted by Congress in 1948 and resulted in 110, 000 Ukrainians being admitted into the United States; its support for the establishment of Ukrainian language services at the Voice of America and Radio Free Liberty; and its initiative of a Public Law within the House and Senate to erect a monument to Taras Shevchenko, the bard of Ukraine, in Washington, D. C. , which was unveiled in 1964 by former U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower." (ucca.org) Subjects: Ukrainians in the United States -- Periodicals. World War II. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide. (NYPL) Light soiling, previous owner marking on wrappers. Very good + condition. Scarce (UKR-1-7) xx
1940Original Wrappers. 8vo. 10 pages. 25 cm. First Edition. Reprinted from World Affairs, Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 25-34. March, 1940. An essay describing the history of the Ukrainian independence movement, and the importance of the establishment of an independent Ukraine during the beginning of World War II. Granovsky, the president of the US based Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, was closely tied to the Ukrainian struggle for independence and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Subjects: Ukraine -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Ukraine -- International status. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. (Stanford, Yale, Univ. Of Illinois, Indiana Univ. , Harvard, Univ. Of Minnisota, Univ. Of Toronto. ) Light age toning and shelf wear. Previous owner’s name. Very good + condition. (UKR-1-22) xx
1946Original Wrappers. 8vo. 166 pages. 21 cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. "Although his first poems were written in 1916, Osmachka began his literary career while he was a student at the Kyiv Institute of People's Education from 1920 to 1923. He belonged to the literary organizations Aspys and Lanka [Later known as 'Maisternia Revoliutsiinoho Slovaâ' (Workshop of the Revolutionary Word) or MARS] and published his first collection of poetry, Krucha (The Precipice) , in 1922; it was followed by two more collections, Skytski vohni (The Scythian Fires, 1925) and Klekit ([Crane's] Clacking, 1929) . Like other members of MARS he was attacked and arrested for his 'unpolitical' literary works, but managed to save himself from execution by feigning insanity. During the 1930s he faced constant persecution by the authorities and was unable to publish any works. During the Second World War he fled to Western Ukraine, then to displaced persons camps in Germany, and finally to the United States. Osmachka's personal ordeal had lasting effects on him, and until his death he suffered from a persecution complex. Nonetheless he resumed his literary career in 1943 in Lviv with the publication of his fourth collection of poetry, Suchasnykam (To My Contemporaries) . In the displaced persons camps, where he was a member of the MUR literary organization, he published his epic poem, written in octaves, Poet (Poet, 1946) , as well as his first prose work, Starshyi Boiaryn (The Best Man, 1946)." (Encyclopedia of Ukraine. ) Subjects: Ukraine; Fiction; Short Stories. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide. (Cleveland Pub. Libr. , Toronto Pub. Libr. ) Light age toning and edgewear. Very good contion. Scarce and important (UKR-1-29)xx
1946Original Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 153 pages. 21 cm. Illustrated. First Edition. Black and red illustrations with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Epic poem, written in octaves, drawing strongly on Ukrainian folk tradition written while Osmachka was in a displaced persons camp, and a member of The Artistic Ukrainian Movement (MUR) . "The objectives of MUR were to gather Ukrainian writers scattered by the Second World War, to organize the publication of their works, and to become a center, within a comprehensive national ideology, for creative dialogues among members representing various styles and literary aims. MUR played a positive role in that it managed to organize almost all of the noted emigre writers and provide them with a forum for discussion while it stimulated an interest in literature among the public at large." (Encyclopedia of Ukraine) Subjects: Ukrainian poetry -- 20th century -- Texts. Edgewear and light age toning. Good + condition. (UKR-1-31)
1953Original Wrappers. 16mo. 131 pages. 15 cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. Osmachka's last collection of poetry, before wholly dedicating himself to prose focused on exploring what he saw to be the genocidal destruction of Ukraine by the Soviet Union. Kytytsi Chasu (Bouquets of Time, 1953) and selected poems published as Iz-pid Svitu: Poetychni Tvory (From Under the World: Poetic Works, 1954) completed [Osmachka's] poetic oeuvre, which is characterized by expressionistic imagery, frequent dumalike rhythms, and a ponderous tone. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine) Ukrainian poetry -- 20th century -- Texts. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Light edgewear and age toning. Lower backstrip corner bumped. Very good condition. (UKR-1-32)
1992First volume in later boards, second volume in original wrappers. 8vo. 156 and 272, [4] pages. 20 cm. First Edition. In Russian. The authors prepared"The Essays of History of Jewish in Ukraine" to publication in two volumes. They will be published in Kiev (Ukraine) and Germany soon. It is the first attempt in Ukraine to review on the documentary basis the main periods of the Jews' life in the area of present-day Ukraine for two thousand years – from the first Jewish communities in the colonies of Crimea, founded by ancient Greeks, till now; from the first persecutions of Jews – the fascist genocide and the state antisemitism in the former Soviet Union. […] We hope this book will be interesting and useful to those, who is holding the attention on the history of the Jewish people. " (Preface) Subjects: Jews -- Ukraine -- History. Ukraine -- Ethnic relations. Both volumes ex-library, with volume one rebound in later boards. Small tear to lower front cover of second volume. Both have inscriptions on title page. Very good condition. (UKR-1-35)
