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19361st edition. Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 22 cm. First edition. "Reprinted by courtesy of The Conference on Jewish relations. " Cover title reads April, 1936, reprinted by courtesy of The Conference on Jewish Relations. An important mid-1930s report from Abraham G Duker on the oppression of Polish Jews in the interwar period (following Hitlers rise to power but before the German invasion of Poland) , with detailed sociological and statistical materials on educational, economic and political facets to the Jewish community, and the changes undergone in an increasingly anti-semitic Polish state; with introductory statement from Salo W. Baron and Morris R. Cohen concerning pogroms in Poland and comparison of the viciousness of Polish Antisemitic parties to that of Nazi Germany. The author of the report Abraham Gordon Duker (19071987) , was born in Rypin, Poland, went to the U. S. In 1923. He served on the library staff at the Jewish Theological Seminary (192733) and was research librarian at the Graduate School of Jewish Social Work (193438) . From 1938 to 1943 he was on the staff of the American Jewish Committee, serving inter alia as the editor of the Contemporary Jewish Record (193841) . He was also an editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (193943) , Reconstructionist, and Jewish Social Studies, a quarterly. Duker was president of the Chicago Spertus College of Judaica (195662) and from 1963 director of libraries and professor of history and social institutions at Yeshiva University. His works include education surveys, books, and articles in his main fields of interest, Polish-Jewish relations and American Jewish sociology. (EJ 2007) Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Poland. Jews - Poland - Social conditions. Joden. Poland - Ethnic relations. "Distributed by... Jewish Nat'l Workers' Alliance" on cover, light sunning, Very Good condition. (HOLO2-104-12A)
1947Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 112 pages. Includes 10 photos with captions in English & Yiddish, & 2 maps. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: The Extermination of Jews in East-Galicia, By Dr. Philip Friedmann; Polish Jewish Soldiers as War Prisoners (Memoirs), by Mendel Lifschitz; Tchernowitz (Cernauti), by Dr. Jakob Ungar; In the forests of White Russia (Eye-Witness Report): a) Around Woloshin, by Mosche Mejerson, b) In the Braslav area, by Mosche Trejster, [&] c) At Radun, by Lieb Lewin; My Experiences During the War (From the Series of Children's Reports), by Daniel Burstin; Lullaby (Ghetto-song); "Buna" (Camp-song); Nazi Documents with Comments; Photographs of the Nazi Period; Bibliographical List of Articles on Jewish Life under the Nazis Published in the Press of the Shaarith Ha-Plata; Report on Activites of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Stains to covers and some wear, Good Condition. (holo2-122-50A)
1947Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 112 pages. Includes 10 photos with captions in English & Yiddish, & 2 maps. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: The Extermination of Jews in East-Galicia, By Dr. Philip Friedmann; Polish Jewish Soldiers as War Prisoners (Memoirs), by Mendel Lifschitz; Tchernowitz (Cernauti), by Dr. Jakob Ungar; In the forests of White Russia (Eye-Witness Report): a) Around Woloshin, by Mosche Mejerson, b) In the Braslav area, by Mosche Trejster, [&] c) At Radun, by Lieb Lewin; My Experiences During the War (From the Series of Children's Reports), by Daniel Burstin; Lullaby (Ghetto-song); "Buna" (Camp-song); Nazi Documents with Comments; Photographs of the Nazi Period; Bibliographical List of Articles on Jewish Life under the Nazis Published in the Press of the Shaarith Ha-Plata; Report on Activites of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Pen on Yiddish cover, Margin Stain to covers, Good Condition. (holo2-122-50B)
1946Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 104 pages. Includes 11 photos with captions in English & Yiddish. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Articles include: Guns in the Ghetto of Riga, by I[srael]. Kaplan; Life and Death of Dubno Ghetto, by M. Weisberg; Crying Graves, by A. Weisbrod; Labour camp at Mielec (reports of witnesses), by I. Kohs; Nazi word of honour, by Dr. M. Schatner; At the Ghetto of Czestochow (pages), by W. Gliksman; Jewish Folklore during the Nazi Time, by by I[srael]. Kaplan; Let us keep silent (Being sung in camp); Dwellings of Ghetto (Being sung in camp);Two Nazi Documents (with explanations); List of articles concerning Jewish Life during the Nazi Regime in the Press of Shaarith Ha-Plata; Activity Report; Chronicle. Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Pen and wear to cover, Good Condition. (holo2-122-51A)
19721st edition. Softbound. 8vo. 331 pages. 23 cm. Translation of the diary of Johann Paul Kremer corrected by Zbigniew Bezwinski; footnotes and biographical notes edited by Jadwiga Bezwinska and Danuta Czech; translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon and Krystyna Michalik, with a foreword by Jerzy Rawicz. With 40 pages of photographic plates, contents include: foreword by Jersy Rawicz - Autobiography of Rudolf Höss - Reminiscences of Pery Broad - Diary of Johann Paul Kremer - Epilogue by Mieczyslaw Kieta - Appendices: Deposition of Stanislaw Dubiel; Report of Janina Szczurek; SS ranks and their Wehrmacht equivalents; Biographical notes. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, German. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel - Biography. Very Good Condition. Excellent copy of the rare 1st edition. (HOLO2-88-48A)
1946Original Cloth. 8vo. 121 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Scenes of the Destruction. Important collection of photographic images of Holocaust, published the year after the wars end in Palestine, not yet Israel. Introduction by Avraham Levinson. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Pictorial works. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Europe. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . World War (1939-1945) . Pictorial works. OCLC lists 18 copies. Light edge wear to cloth, endpages lightly foxed, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-124-4)
1957Original Cloth. 4to. 99 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Added English title page: Oroth meophel; bibliography of Jewish religious books published in Europe (1933-1945) . Important bibliography of religious books published during the holocaust era in Europe. Subjects: Judaism - Bibliography. Judaism. Bibliography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Europe. Jewish literature Publishing Europe. Cloth soiled, internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-124-5)
1977Original Wraps. 8vo. Pages 465-525 [i. E. 60 pages] 22 cm. First separate edition. "Reprint from: Rescue attempts during the Holocaust proceedings of the second Yad Vashem International historical Conference-April 1974." Historical work, and reflection on the documentation and materials, on the rescue of the Jews in Croatia. Bibliography: p. 507. Document Facsimiles: p. 508-525. Daniel Carpi (1926-2005) was Professor of Jewish History at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel; author of numerous works in Italian, Hebrew, and English on the history of the Holocaust in Italy and its territories. Subjects: Jews - Croatia. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Croatia. Jews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 6 copies. Lightly aged and light soiling to wraps, contains red pencil underlining throughout, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-123-48)
1943Original Wraps. 12mo. 15 pages. 19 cm. First edition. A Soviet war news pamphlet. Price 2d. CPS 25277 on rear wrap. Contains Decree of the Supreme Soviet for establishing the Extraordinary State Commission to investigate Nazi Atrocities; and April 6, 1943 'Statement by the Extraordinary Commission for the Ascertainment and Investigation of Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders and their Associates, on Outrages against Citizens and Damage to Collective Farms, Public Organisations, State Enterprises and Institutions of the U. S. S. R. In the towns of Vyazma, Gzhatsk and Sychevka, Smolensk region, and in the town of Rzhev, Kalinin region. ' The Statement contains numerous firsthand source material on atrocities and murders in these regions, abduction for slave labor in Germany, wholesale destruction of towns, museums, etc. Mass shootings; contains a list of German officers responsible for these crimes. The Extraordinary State Commission was established on 2 November 1942, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, for officially 'investigating the Crimes of the GermanFascist Aggressors' and their allies, and was the major official body for recording and documenting Nazi war crimes and pillage. The Reports of the Commission comprised major evidential material presented at the Nuremberg trials and the Japanese war criminals' trials. The reports appeared in English in the daily publication Soviet War News issued by the Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London. Subjects: Atrocities - Soviet Union - History - 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 - Soviet Union. Atrocities. German Occupation of Soviet Union (1941-1944) World War (1939-1945) Soviet Union - History - German occupation, 1941-1944. OCLC lists 4 copies (Florida, Oxford, Northwestern, Swansea) , none in the Northeast. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. Scarce and Important. (HOLO2-123-51)
1969Original Wraps. 12mo. 159 pages. 20 cm. First edition. Conference material of the International Conference on Prosecution of Nazi Criminals, held March 25-28, 1969. Issued also in Russian: Osnovnye materialy. Conference participants included ministers of justice from the Eastern Bloc and prominent legal theorists, scholars, and lawyers from several countries in Western Europe (Czeslaw Pilichowski, D. N. Pritt, etc. ) . The materials address precedent trials (Nuremberg, etc. ) and the ongoing legal ramifications and need for further prosecution of Nazi war criminals still at large, or currently not facing prosecution, in West Germany and other countries in the world. Scholars address the legal statutes and ways of addressing further and recent trials of Nazi war criminals in their respective countries (Belgium, France, etc. ) . Subjects: War crimes - Congresses. War criminals - Congresses. World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. Atrocities. War crimes. War criminals. World War (1939-1945) Conference proceedings. OCLC lists 28 copies. Wraps bumped, edges lightly bumped, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-123-53)
1980Original Wraps. 8vo. 186, [64] pages. 24 cm. First edition. Contains 64 pages of illustrations, with diagrams and charts at rear. Contents: The policy of Nazi Germany in occupied Poland - The Third Reich's treatment of POWs - Nazi treatment of the Polish people: deportations and Germanization - Germanization of Polish children and youth: camps for minors - Slave labour and camps - Prisons and detention centres as instruments of destruction of the Polish nation - Polish women in Nazi prison camps - The massacre of Jews: ghettoes - Nazi concentration and extermination camps - pathogenic factors and results of camp diseases - Legal foundations of the punishment of Nazi criminals. Czeslaw Pilichowski (1914-1984) , a veteran of the underground Home Army under the German occupation in World War II, was the founder and longtime director of the High Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 - Germany. War and crime. Atrocities. World War (1939-1945) Germany - History - 1933-1945. Light edge wear to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-123-54)
19671st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo; 154 pages; Researched personal memoir/history of this Polish-Ukrainian- Jewish community wiped out in the Holocaust. Jacket has some stains, Very good condition in defective jacket. (HOLO2-98-24A) xx
1946Original Wraps. 4to. 39 pages. 27 cm. First edition. Early post-war statements submitted to the Paris Conference by the World Jewish Congress, Agudas Israel World Organisation, American Jewish Conference, American Jewish Committee, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Anglo-Jewish Association, Conseil Representatif des Juifs de France, Alliance Israelite Universelle, South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Amendments to the proposed peace treaties, urging inclusion of annexes to secure the rights of the Jewish population. - cf. P. 2. Contents: Memorandum on the treaty with Roumania - Memorandum on the treaty with Hungary - Memorandum on the treaty with Italy - Memorandum on the treaty with Bulgaria. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Peace proposals and settlements. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Reparations. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. Paris Peace Conference (1946) . OCLC lists 7 copies. In protective library folder, slight library stamp on pastedown, otherwise Very good condition. (ZION-6-34A)
1943Original Wraps. 8vo. 40 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Holocaust-era imprint. Foreword by Judge Louise E. Levinthal. The four essays contained in this booklet were presented at a special session of the Forty-fifth Annual Convention of the Zionist Organisation of America on October 15, 1942. Each author is a distinguished rabbi in American Israel. - p. 5. Essays include 'Substance and Spirit' by David de Sola Pool, 'Zionism A Religious Duty' by Felix A. Levy, 'The Religious Character of Jewish Nationalism' by Joseph H. Lookstein, 'The Religious Spirit' by Louis Levitsky. Subjects: Zionism. Judaism. OCLC lists 15 copies. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean. Very good condition. (ZION-7-1)
1939Original Wraps. 8vo. 15 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Issued the year after Kristallnacht by the Zionist Organization of America. Political primer for the American Zionist movement; updated, extended, and rewritten version of 'Zionism: Its Aspirations, Aims and Accomplishments' issued in 1938. Subjects: Zionism - History. Propaganda, Zionist - United States - 20th century. Zionism. OCLC lists 5 copies (Harvard, Princeton, Fuller Theol Sem, Spertus, Johns Hopkins) . Wraps lightly soiled, otherwise clean. Very good condition. (ZION-7-5) xx
1944Original Wraps. 8vo. 19 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Adapted by Shalom Hektin, Translation and Illustrations by Thelma Mozeson. With 5 illustrations, and a glossary of Hebrew terms. Holocaust-era adaptation of the story, the narrative of the child Jacob, a Chatufim (kidnapped) , who does not bend or break under the weight of punishment for not converting to Christianity in Tsarist Russia as a young boy, has to serve as a soldier in the Tsar's army, is finally discharged in middle age, returns to Judaism, finds a living as a horse trader, and eventually emigrates to Jerusalem, becoming one of the earliest Zionists to settle there. Subjects: Hebrew Educators Committee for Labor Palestine Jewish Childrens Book Club. Childrens Literature Jewish Labor Zionism. OCLC lists 3 copies (JTSA, Harvard, Cape Town) . Wraps worn, torn at edges, light wear internally, overall clean. Good condition. (ZION-7-6)
1945Original Wraps. 8vo. 16 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Holocaust-era publication. 'The Hebrew university and its place in the modern world, being the Lucien Wolf memorial lecture, 1945, delivered before the Jewish historical society of England in March 1945.' Lecture delivered on the beginnings and current work of the Hebrew University of Jersualem, emphasizing the unique role it has of being a major research university with unparalleled subject offerings and its major role in Palestine and in the Zionist and Hebrew revival project. Subjects: Jerusalem. Hebrew University. Universitah ha-`Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim. OCLC lists 11 copies of the American Friends of the Hebrew University edition. Very clean. Very good + condition. (ZION-7-21)
1945Original Wraps. 12mo. 14, [2] pages. 18 cm. First edition. Holocaust-era publication. Lucien Wolf memorial lecture, 1945. Lecture delivered on the beginnings and current work of the Hebrew University of Jersualem, emphasizing the unique role it has of being a major research university with unparalleled subject offerings and its major role in Palestine and in the Zionist and Hebrew revival project. Subjects: Jerusalem. Hebrew University. Universitah ha-`Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim. OCLC lists 22 copies of this edition. Light wear to wraps. Very clean. Very good + condition. (ZION-7-21A)
1937Original Wraps. 8vo. 15 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Nazi-era brochure on the Keren Hayesod during its first sixteen years of operation. Addresses day to day operations, immigration and settlement assistance, fundraising activities, assistance given to German Jewish refugees, the Hebrew school system and Hebrew renaissance in Palestine. Contains list of expenditures of the Keren Hayesod from 1920 to 1936. Subjects: Zionism. Keren Hayesod. OCLC lists 3 copies (Natl Libr Israel, Harvard, Brandeis) , none in the US outside Boston. Light wear to wraps, some pen marks, otherwise Very good condition. (ZION-7-45A) xx
1940Original Wraps. 12mo. 19 pages. 20 cm. Holocaust-era imprint, the final of 5 annual brochures issued. With frontispiece portrait of Theodor Herzl. Contains the Masada Program, a history of Zionism and Palestine, the Zionist movement, the Masada youth movement, Masada aims and activities, the history of the Masada movement. Contains 14 illustrations. February 1940 - cover. Program of the Masada Zionist Youth Movement, updated and issued yearly between 1936 and 1940. Subjects: Zionism. Masada. Jews, American. Jewish religious education. OCLC lists 3 copies (JTSA, Harvard, Natl Libr Israel) . Light wear to wraps, previous owners signature on front wrap, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (ZION-8-18)
1939Original Wraps. 8vo. [8] pages. 23 cm. First separate edition. Holocaust-era report by Abraham Dickenstein, American Representative of the Palestine Workers' Bank. Offers a breakdown of the current composition of the economy in Palestine, an analysis of current import/export rates and the effects of a war with Italy on the side of Germany (hence shipping being affected in the Mediterranean) will have, and the measures to be taken to guarantee provisions and necessities and room for expansion and refugees in the event of a war economically affecting Palestine. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Economic aspects - Palestine. Economics. Histadrut ha-kelalit shel ha-`ovdim ha-`Ivrim be-Erets-Yisrael. World War (1939-1945) . Middle East Palestine. OCLC lists only 1 copy (Harvard) . Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (ZION-8-19)
1934Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 23 cm. First edition. First appearance. Nazi-era booklet. 'National Avukah program; first series: The Jews as a group; first semester: The development of Jewish society and institutions'. This essay is planned as the first part of a four year course - p. 3. Historical survey, designed for Avukah students, on Jewish history from the Second Temple period to the present (covers Babylonia, the expulsion from Spain, the ghetto, Poland, Emancipation, Russian and American Jewry, etc. ) . Subjects: Jews - History. Jews Civilization. OCLC lists only 2 copies (Harvard, Dallas) . Wraps soiled, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (ZION-8-21)
1938Original Wraps. 8vo. 12 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Nazi-era publication on the revival of Hebrew and a survey of Hebrew literature and the press. Discusses specialized areas of study in history, biography, literary criticism, reprinting medieval classics, translations; the specialties of Hebrew writers (terror and gloom, romanticism) . Contains three tables displaying the number of Hebrew books sold in Palestine and exported elsewhere. Subjects: Literature. Hebrew literature - Israel. OCLC lists 4 copies (NYPL, Natl Libr Israel, Harvard, HUC) . Light soiling to wraps. Previous owners name and stamp on front wrap, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (ZION-8-22) xx
2005Original Boards, 8vo, 245 pages. With a new preface to the 2005 edition, first edition thus. In Serbo-Croatian with English summaries. 93 Gruesome Photos. Reprint of Robinson & Friedman # 2089. Wolff I # 1363. "Based on documents collected by the Yugoslav State Commission for Investigation of War Crimes. " An especially important documentary record given the recent history of Yugoslavia. Boards lightly rubbed, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-125-4)
19471st edition. Original Color Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 297 pages. 20 cm. In Polish. First Edition. Published in Germany, primarily for Polish-speaking Jewish DPs. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Concentration Camps, Jewish. Thaddeus Stabholz. OCLC lists 17 libraries worldwide. Spine rebacked, light wear, Good+ Condition. Scarce title. (HOLO2-28-2)
