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19248vo, xxvi, 491 pages; 20 cm. Includes indexes. Subject: Jews - Persecutions. Massacres -- History 20th century. Antisemitism -- History 20th century. Moldova -- Ethnic relations. Front hinge cracked, but binding is tight. Otherwise very good condition. (HOLO2-59-7).
1964Oblong 8vo; xxxii, 312 pages; Serious, well illustrated study with extensive index, end notes, bibliography, and glossary. In dust jacket, very good condition. (ART-17-1)
1965New York : Y. Yoseloff, 1965. Cloth, 8vo, 256 pages. Bibliography on pages 243-249. Includes Index, 15 pages of plates. Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- History. Dustcover torn on the back. Very good condition. (EE-3-1)
1978(ft) Paper-wrappers, 8vo, 112 pages, in Yiddish , illustrated, music. Inscribed by author. Content is divided in 2 parts: A. Lider and B. Fun Birbaydzan biz Bney Bra? . Arones was born 1897 in Dvinsk, Latvia, very passionate for theatre, was a founding member of Yiddish Artists Union 1917 in Kharkov, and helped to organize several theatres, was an actor at Yiddish State Theatre of U. S. S. R in Moscow and wrote several articles about the Yiddish theatre. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Outer-cover is worn, overall very good condition (HOLO2-89-73)
18878vo. 28 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Gezerot tah ve-tat, 1648-1649; Jews persecutions Poland; Jews persecutions Ukraine. Gurland (1843-1890) was born in Belorussia, and studied at the Vilna seminary and the University of St. Petersburg. At the University, he studies oriental languages, and wrote his dissertation on Islamic influences on Maimonides. After working in St. Petersburg and then traveling in Western Europe, he founded a high school and was appointed rabbi in Odessa. (EJ) Moisture mark on upper corner, corners bumped, pages yellowed, text clean, good condition especially considering the age. (HEB-6-7)
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xxxv, 328 pages. Includes illustrations, maps, 26 cm. "An Edward E. Elson book. " Translation from Russian. Includes gazetteer. Bibliography on pages 317-323. Includes colored end papers, black and white photos and a illustrated cover. Subjects: Jews. Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Description and travel. Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Intellectual life. ISSN 0827603215. LCCN 88-8285 //r934. Very good condition in very good jacket. (EE-3-32)
1938Original Wraps. 8vo. XIII, 357 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Yiddish with added title page and table of contents in Polish and English and some text in Polish. Shriftn fun Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut; band 9; Filologishe shriftn; 5. Folklor Zydowski; Jewish folklore. Dedicated to the memory of Y. L. Cahan. Cahan edited the fifth volume of YIVOs Filologishe shriftn (Philological Studies) devoted to Yiddish folklore, which appeared posthumously in 1938, dedicated to his memory. - YIVO Encyclopedia. The most enthusiastic and prolific zamlers were those who had been recruited by the Ethnographic Commission, known after 1930 as the Folklore Commission. In its first year, this part of the institute operated under the joint sponsorship of the An-ski Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society. By 1929, the members of 163 zamlerkrayzn (collectors circles) had sent more than 50, 000 copies of proverbs, folktales, and folk songs to YIVO. The analysis and publication of this material proceeded more slowly, in part because the leading folklorist, Y. L. Cahan, was living in New York. Cahans visit to Vilna in 1930 spurred work, but the fruits of the zamlers labor appeared in print only in 1938 as Yidisher folklor (Yiddish Folklore) . - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews - Folklore. Folk literature, Yiddish. Folk songs, Yiddish. Folk literature, Yiddish. Folk songs, Yiddish. Jews. Backstrip absent, binding split. Light soiling to wraps. Good - condition. (YID-21-9)
1928Original Cloth. 4to. 262, 34 pages. 32 cm. First edition. In Yiddish, with added German title page and abstracts. Black cloth and purple endpages as issued by publisher. Schriften fur Wirtschaft und Statistik, Band 1. Published by the Ekonomish-statistishe sektsye [Economic-Statistical Section] of the Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut. Contains articles by J. Lestschinsky, E. Ringelblum, J Shatzky, J. Joffe, S. Dubnow and others. Articles on demographics in Riga, Poland, etc. Articles on mortality rates, criminality rates, pogroms in Ukraine 1918-1921, artisans, industrialists, factory workers, credit and finance, etc. Hundreds of charts and graphs. Edited by Jacob Lestschinsky (1876-1966) historian and sociologist; specialist in Jewish demography and economic history one of the founding members of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and participated in the inaugural meeting of its Historical Section in Berlin on 31 October 1925. Lestschinsky edited Bleter far yidisher demografye, statistik, un ekonomik, which appeared in Berlin from 1923 until 1925. He laid the groundwork for the Economic-Statistical Section of YIVO, which he headed from its inception in 1926, and edited its publications Ekonomishe shriftn and Yidishe ekonomik. - YIVO Encyclopedia. Bound in black cloth over boards; gilt title on cloth, gilt title on red leather pastedown on backstrip, purple endpapers. Subjects: Jews - Economic conditions - Periodicals. Jews - Statistics Periodicals. YIVO Berlin Branch. YIVO - Ekonomish-statistishe sektsye - Economic-Statistical Section Periodicals. Jews. Jews - Economic conditions. Periodicals. Statistics. Binding repaired; institutional stamps on endpages; otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-21-17)
1929Original Cloth. 4to. L, 826 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In Yiddish, with abstracts in Polish, added title page in Polish. Pisma Historyczne, Tom 1. First volume of the Historishe Shriftn (Historical Writings) of the Historical Section of the YIVO. Articles by S. Dubnow, I. Shiper, N. M. Gelber, E. Ringelblum, Z. Rubashov, H. Borodianski, A. Menes, S. Barkin, I. Shatzky, A. Tcherikower, M. Balaban, A. Landoy, P. Kon, N. Prilutski, and others. Articles on Moses Mendelssohn, the family letters of Ferdinand Lasalle (with facsimiles) , the life and writings of Nathan ben Moses Hannover, the Jews in Poland in the 10th and 11th centuries, Jews in Medieval Warsaw, the struggle for Jewish emancipation in England, Jews in the Polish uprising of 1863, the Jewish Socialist Movement, the 1876 Articles of the Jewish Socialist Union in London with facsimile, history of the first Russian-Yiddish journal; reports of Materials and Documents held at archives and research institutes. Edited by Elias Tcherikower (18811943) , historian of Russian Jewish life and anti-Jewish violence a founder of the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher InstitutYIVOand thereafter headed its Historical Section and edited the three volumes of its Historishe shriftn. - YIVO Encyclopedia. Bound in publishers black cloth, gilt title on cover, red leather gilt pastedown on backstrip. Subjects: Jews Europe. Eastern - History. Jewish socialists - Europe, Eastern - History. Jews - History. Ethnic relations. Jewish socialists. Jews. History. Europe, Eastern - Ethnic relations. Boards worn and rubbed, lightly soiled. Institutional stamps on endpages. Pages lightly aged, some smudges to margins. Overall good. Good + condition. (YID-21-18) xx
1994Original Illustrated Wraps. 4to. 156, XX pages. 31 cm. First edition. Articles in Hebrew with abstracts in English. Added English title page: Back to the shtetl: An-Sky and the Jewish ethnographic expedition, 1912-1914: from the collections of the State Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg: exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated, some in color, with articles on the history of the An-Sky expedition. From 1912 to 1914, S. An-ski (Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport) headed ethnographic expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement. After a limited display of the expeditionary collection in 1914, it was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Saint Petersburg, which opened briefly in 1917, and then again in 1923, only to be closed in 1929. In 2000, most of the remaining artifacts were located at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in Saint Petersburg, while most of the manuscripts and audio recordings were held in Kiev, at the Vernadskii National Library of Ukraine. In 19921995, an exhibition of some items from the An-ski collection (approximately 150 artifacts) traveled to museums in Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Jerusalem, and New York. The same collection was displayed in the exhibition Images of One People: The Jewish Collections of the Russian Museum of Ethnography in Saint Petersburg in April 2004. - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews - Russia - Folklore - Exhibitions. Judaism - Liturgical objects - Exhibitions. Jews - Russia - Civilization. An-Ski, S. , 1863-1920. State Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) - Exhibitions. Light shelf wear to wraps, very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (YID-21-19)
1990Original Hardback. 8vo. 310 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish, with an introduction in Hebrew. Added title pages: Sefer ha-humoreskot veha-parodyot ha-sifrutiyot be-Yidish. The book of Yiddish humoresques and literary parodies. An edition of Yiddish parodies by Yoysef Tunkeler (18811949) . Der Tunkelers literary enterprise is today a historical and cultural source for the language and culture of East European Jewry up to World War II. - Yivo Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Humor. Yiddish wit and humor - Poland. Jews. Yiddish wit and humor. Humor. Poland. Light edge wear; overall clean and fresh. Very good condition. (YID-21-23)
1914Original Cloth. 8vo. 111 pages. 22 cm. First edition of authors first book. In Yiddish. Bilder fun shtetl (Portraits of the Shtetl) . First published book of Tsadok Dolgopolski (18791959) , Yiddish writer. Born into a poor family in Horodok, near Vitebsk, Tsadok Dolgopolski began working at a factory in Nevel while still young. In the late 1890s, he became an active member of the Bund and was imprisoned in Bialystok. Self-taught, he passed the qualifying examinations for teachers and organized a school for Jewish children in his hometown. By 1898, he was writing short articles on labor issues for illegal and legal Yiddish periodicals. In 1914, Boris Kletskins Vilna publishing house issued a collection of Dolgopolskis works, mainly plays, called Bilder fun shtetl (Portraits of the Shtetl) . - Yivo Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews -- Europe, Eastern - Social life and customs - Drama; Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 8 copies. Pages lightly aged, light wear to edges of cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-21-25)
1908Later Cloth. 8vo. 96 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition. In Yiddish. 'The Seven That Were Hanged'. Razskaz o semi poveshennykh, translated from the Russian by N. Prilutsky. Novel about five revolutionaries and two peasant-bandits sentenced to death; the novel centers around reflections on fate, death, humanity, the meaning of the revolution, etc. , during the post-1905 counterrevolution and repression. Leonid Andreyev, (1871-1919) , Russian novelist and dramatist, was one of the most successful Russian writers from 1902-1914; his stories were translated into Yiddish and his plays were popular in the Yiddish theater. Subjects: Russian fiction - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 15 copies. Bound in later green cloth. Pages lightly aged, previous owners bookstamps in margins on endpages and a few leaves, binding repaired, otherwise clean. Good condition. (YID-21-29)
663Period Cloth. 8vo. 358 pages. 23 cm. Second printing. Stumbling Block or, a Stone in the Road: novel in four parts. ' Four volumes in one, bound in two books, with separate title pages. First published 1890. Sentimental novel, later reprinted several times, written by Yankev Dinezon (1856? 1919) , Yiddish author, editor, and literary activist. Subjects: Yiddish Fiction. OCLC lists 11 copies of this edition. First few leaves bumped, torn edges, previously repaired; pages age toned and lightly soiled throughout, hinges starting; otherwise clean. Good - condition. (YID-21-31)
1940Original Wraps. 8vo. [164-176] [i. E. 12] pages. 23 cm. First separate edition. In Yiddish. Offprint from Inzikh Numer 56 (Dec. 1940) , p. 164-176. A review and critique of Moyshe (Morris) Bassin's anthology of American Yiddish poetry - Amerikaner Yidishe Poezye (1940) . Contains the bookstamp of the author, Minkoff. Nahum Baruch Minkoff (1893-1958) was a Yiddish writer, poet, literary historian and critic, editor of the Yiddish literary monthly Zukunft and one of the founders of the In Zikh group of Yiddish poets. Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Bassin, Morris, 1889-1963. Amerikaner yidishe poezye. OCLC lists 5 copies (Nypl, Illinois, HUC, CJH, JTSA) . Light soiling and edge wear to wraps, internally clean and fresh. Condition. (YID-21-39) xx
1969Original Cloth. 8vo. 179, [9] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Yiddish with vocalized Hebrew translation on opposite pages. 'On My Way to You', poems by Chaim Grade. "The volume Af mayn veg tsu dir (On My Way to You; 1969) offers redemptive impressions of the Israeli landscape. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. Hebrew translation by Yosef Ahai; nine pages of ink drawing illustrations by the acclaimed artist Alexander Bogen, a fellow traveler with Chaim Grade in Yung Vilne and a partisan during the holocaust period. Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Hebrew poetry - Translations from Yiddish. Light wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (YID-21-46)
1962Original Cloth. 4to. 159 pages. 27 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Inscribed by Grade in year of publication. Poems by Chaim Grade. "Der mentsh fun fayer (The Man of Fire; 1962) includes a moving elegy for the murdered Soviet Yiddish writers, lyrics about the American landscape, and the haunting voice of the dead who impress upon him the obligation to keep their memory alive. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. Published by Cyco-Tsiko, printed by Shulsinger Bros. With four illustrations and cover design by Benn. Attractively printed and bound. Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Chaim Grade. Light soiling to edges of binding, otherwise very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (YID-21-47)
[192? ]Original Cloth. 8vo. 165 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition. Yiddish translation of Bednye liudi (Poor Folk) , the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Contemporary critics lauded Poor Folk for its humanitarian themes, Belinsky named it Russia's first 'social novel'. Alexander Herzen praised the book in his essay 'About the Progress of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia', noting the book's 'socialistic tendencies and animations. ' Translated by Ts. Sorin for the Max Jankowitz publishing house. Subjects: Russian fiction - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 9 copies. Cloth scratched, some pages bent at edges; otherwise clean and fresh. Good - condition. (YID-21-59)
1926Original Cloth. 4to. XXVII, 519; XXVII, 519; 623 pages. 32 cm. First edition. Text in Yiddish; summaries in English. Volumes 1, 2, 3 of Filologishe Shriftn. Shriftn fun Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut 1-3. Other titles: Landoy-bukh; 1926; Filologishe serye; 1926; Serya filologiczna; 1926-1928; Studies in philology; 1928-1929; Prace filologiczne; 1929. Complete run of the Filologishe Shriftn, a "three-volume series published in Vilna by the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) in 1926, 1928, and 1929. Filologishe shriftn (Studies in Philology) was co-edited by Zalmen Reyzen and Max Weinreich. The inaugural volume of Filologishe shriftn, titled the Landoy-bukh (Landau Book) , was a Festschrift in honor of the German Jewish philologist Alfred Landau (18501935) . In the 1920s, Soviet authorities tolerated cooperation with YIVO; hence, works by authors from the USSR were included in the three volumes. The periodical YIVO-bleter (YIVO Pages) , launched in 1931, continued the tradition of Filologishe shriftn. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. All volumes in original cloth binding with gilt title. Subjects: Yiddish philology - Periodicals. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Yiddish philology. Periodicals. Light soiling to cloth. Very slight ageing to outer margins of pages, otherwise very clean and fresh. Very good + condition. An outstanding set. (YID-22-1)
1944Original Wraps. 4to. [24] pages. 30 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. No. 5, Theatre leaves; Theatre heften. Published under the Auspices of the Hebrew Actors Union of America. Teater Heften, No. 1 (1943) -; Ceased in 1947. Fascicles of the 3rd vol. Of Leksikon fun Yidishn teater, edited by Zalmen Zylbercweig and Jacob Mestel. Number 5 contains columns 1729-1760, Pey-Vov. Contains 3 pages of announcements and financial reports from the Committee for the Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre. Edited by Zalmen Zylbercweig (Zilbertsvayg) (18941972) , Yiddish theater historian and lexicographer. "Zylbercweig 's magnum opus is a six-volume encyclopedia titled Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Lexicon of Yiddish Theater) . The publishing history of these volumes is no less exotic than the wanderings of its author and its subject. Zylbercweig succeeded in publishing one volume in New York and one in Warsaw before World War II; the others were published in New York and Mexico City from 1959 to 1969. Volumes 13 were co-edited by Jacob Mestel. An unpublished seventh volume was in page proofs at the time of Zylbercweig 's death. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jewish theater - Periodicals. Jewish actors - Periodicals. Jewish entertainers - Periodicals. Jewish actors. Jewish entertainers. Jewish theater. OCLC lists 12 copies. Bound in pink wraps, heavily illustrated. Scarce. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (YID-22-10)
1941Original Wraps. 8vo. 123 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title on back cover: 'Jubilee book dedicated to Zalmen Zylbercweig, on the thirtieth year of his literary activities '. Includes bibliography of Zylbercweig 's writings (p. 28-40) , including his Yiddish translations of plays. Zalmen Zylbercweig (18941972) , Yiddish theater historian and lexicographer. Zylbercweig 's magnum opus is a six-volume encyclopedia titled Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Lexicon of Yiddish Theater) . Subjects: Zylbercweig, Zalmen, 1894-1972. Jubilee Book. OCLC lists 12 copies. Wraps soiled, internally clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-22-11) xx
1935Original Wraps. 8vo. 176 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. '14 Proletarian One-Act plays', by Morris Levitt. Author inscribed on third page. Contents: 1. Kolvirtnikes. 2. Kandidatn. 3. Barg aroyf. 4. Mir straykn. 5. Af der Boyeri. 6. Nit gelungen. 7. Maykromania. 8. Landslayt. 9. A Gefalener. 10. A Trempisher nest. 11. An Iberfal. 12. In a kafe. 13. Neli. 14. Nay lebn. The author was born in Homel, was arrested in Vilna for revolutionary activities prior to 1905, obtained a degree in dentistry from NYU in 1913, was a member of Poale Tsion, a founder of an Arbeter-Ring Branch in Harlem, and became an adherent to the Communist Party; he was also the author of a number of one act plays. Subjects: Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 12 copies. Light soiling to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-22-12)
1921Original Cloth. 8vo. 357 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. 'In Polish Woods: A Novel '. First appearance and inscribed by Opatoshu to S. Yanovsky [Saul Yanovsky, Yiddish Anarchist]. "In his novel In Poylishe Velder (1921; In Polish Woods, 1938, the first volume of a trilogy) , Opatoshu described the decay of the Hasidic court of Kotzk during the post-Napoleonic generation and presented a rich panorama of Polish-Jewish interrelations up to the Revolt of 1863. Often reprinted, and translated into eight languages, it established Opatoshu 's fame internationally, though its sequel, 1863, made less of an impact; the last volume of the trilogy, Aleyn ( 'Alone ') was the first to be published (1919) . " - EJ 2008. Subjects: Hasidism - Fiction. OCLC lists 27 copies of the first edition. Pages 73-88 numbered inconsistently. Light soiling to cloth, institutional stamps on endpages, well-read; otherwise fresh. Good condition. (YID-22-14)
19031st edition. Original printed wrappers, Folio (large) , viii, 52. Following extensive Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe into the United Kingdom this Report was commissioned "To inquire into and report upon: (1) The character and extent of the evils which are attributed to the unrestricted immigration of Aliens, especially in the Metropolis; (2) The measures which have been adopted for the restriction and control of Alien Immigration in Foreign Countries, and in British Colonies; and to advise what remedial or precautionary measures it is desirable to adopt in this country. " Light edgewear to bright blue wrappers, otherwise Very Good Condition. (kh-3-27)
Hardcover with dustjacket. 8vo. Xv, 427 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jews - Soviet union; Joden. SERIES: Russian civilization series; Ex-library with usual maks. Very Good Condition. (EE-2-13)