Yiddish

Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language (Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh) [IN YIDDISH]

IN YIDDISH. 26x17cm. LVI+933 pages. Gilt hardcover. Front cover slightly scratched. Cover corners and upper edge slightly bumped. Spine slightly wrinkled and curved. Spine upper edge slightly bumped. Front inner cover and first whitepage slightly age-stained. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.

Burnt pearls: Ghetto poems of Abraham Sutzkever

1981 · 019682 — Oakville Ontario: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions 1981. Book. G/VG-. Trade Paperback. First Thus. Trade size gray paperback with black and white titles. Book has a remainder mak on the bottom closed page edges with light edge wear and rubs along the spine. Interior is clean tight and unmarked. Yiddish poetry by Abraham Sutzkever during World War II and his time in the Vilna Ghetto. 51 pages. Mosaic Press/Valley Editions Paperback

Abraham Sutzkever: On his Seventieth Birthday [IN HEBREW AND YIDDISH].

IN HEBREW AN YIDDISH. 27.5x21 cm. 206 pages. Softcover. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Else in good condition.

Yiddish and Hebrew Literature Under the Nazi Rule in Eastern Europe: Yitzhak Katzenelson's Last Bilingual Wrintings and the Ghetto Writings of A. Sutzkever and Y. Spiegel - VOL. II: Notes, Appendixes, Bibliography [THIS VOLUME ONLY] [IN HEBREW]. Thesis Submitted for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy

IN HEBREW. THIS VOLUME ONLY. 270X215 mm. 343 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly yellowing. Cover corners slightly wrinkled. Spine yellowing. Spine edges slightly torn. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.

EIN KAMPF UM WAHRHEIT, MAX BROD ZUM 65. GEBURTSTAG

Original Wraps. 4to. 49 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. 'The Struggle for Truth; Max Brod on his 65th Birthday. ' With two illustrations. Contains contributions from Martin Buber, Felix Weltsch, Schalom Ben-Chorin, Mayer Ebner, Erwin Pollak, and others. Contains several biographies of Brod written by his associates, with a chronology of his life. Max Brod (1884–1968) , “Czech-born German author, composer, and representative member of the 'Prague Circle' (Prager Kreis) . ” -2008 EJ. Subjects: Brod, Max, 1884-1968. Bibliographie. Wraps chipped, aged, fragile. Internally clean and fresh. Good - condition. (GER-43-57)

The Quincentennial Foundation in Istanbul, 1492-1992.

Fine English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (28 x 22 cm). In English. Color and b/w ills. [56] p. Corporate history of foundation. The Quincentennial Foundation was established in 1989 by 113 Turkish citizens, Jews and Muslims alike, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Sephardim's arrival to the Ottoman Empire.

Account of Two Years Organizing Work

1927 · 228396 — Vilno: Yiddish Scientific Institute 1927. Stiff Wrapper. Good . VII 84 pp. in English and Yiddish Covers the years 1925-1927 "The spiritual uprising of the masses of the Jewish people.has called into being new cultural necessities." Yiddish Scientific Institute unknown

The Jewish Landsmanschaften of New York

1938 · 55712 — New York: I. L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Union 1938. First edition Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good- to good condition. Quarto. 397 3pp. Original light brown clpthe with black lettering on cover and spine. Title pages in Yiddish and English. Scarce work being a survey of immigrant societies in New York. Includes essays on landsmanshaft history and activities as well as survey results in Yiddish; also contains the Directory of Organizations in English. A comprehensive survey of Jewish support groups organized by the community. Text in Yiddish with some English. Biding with some light wear along edges slightly pronounced at head and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Library sticker on spine library bookplate on inside front cover. Blind-stamped on title-page. Lightly starting after title page starting at second back endpaper before English title page. Typed note describing content on free endpaper. Libary barcode on inside back cover. Block lightly age-toned. I. L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Union hardcover

The Jewish Landsmanschaften of New York

1938 · 28020 — New York: I. L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Union 1938. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 397 3pp. Rebacked with blue library tape over original cloth with Yiddish lettering on front cover. Title pages in Yiddish and English. Scarce work being a survey of immigrant societies in New York. Includes essays on landsmanshaft history and activities as well as survey results in Yiddish; also contains the Directory of Organizations in English. Age-wear on binding with original spine replaced by library blue tape and heavy rubbing along edges. Previous owner's stamps on both endpapers. Age-toning along paper margin. Text in Yiddish with some English. Binding in overall fair interior in good condition. I. L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Union hardcover

MI TIO SCHOLEM ALEIJEM Y OTROS PARIENTES

1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 319 pages ; 18 cm. In Spanish. Title Translates into English as, “My Uncle Sholem Aleichem and Other Relatives. ” One of the last published works of César Tiempo. “César Tiempo , born Israel Zeitlin (1906 - 1980) was a writer , journalist , editor , playwright and screenwriter in Argentina. ” (Wikpedia, 2016) He was part of the Grupo de Boedo. Note the translation of his last name from Yiddish into Spanish. Contains an introduction from Eduardo Stilman. SUBJECT(S) : Biography. Spine is taped. Some wear to wrappers. Paper browning. In good condition. (Latam-4-2)

DER BLUTIKER GELEKHTER: HINKEMAN: A TRAGEDYE IN DRAY AKTEN UN 7 STSENES

1st Yiddish edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 79 pages, 17 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The Bloody Laughter: Hinkemann: A Tragedy in 3 Acts and 7 Scenes. ” First published in German in 1923. Toller (1893-1939) was “a German left-wing playwright, best known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, and was imprisoned for five years for his actions. He wrote several plays and poetry during that period, which gained him international renown. They were performed in London and New York as well as Berlin. In 2000, several of his plays were published in an English translation. In 1933 Toller was exiled from Germany after the Nazis came to power. He did a lecture tour in 1936-1937 in the United States and Canada, settling in California for a while before going to New York. He joined other exiles there. Struggling financially and depressed at learning his brother and sister had been sent to a concentration camp in Germany, he committed suicide in May 1939 (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: German drama -- Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide (OCLC: 429179006) . Edge wear. Minor repair. Bottom margin of title page is missing. Overall Good Condition. (YID-41-16)

Once there was a village a descriptive Monograph

205x135, 198pp, hard green cover, slightly worn cover, Signed by the author, else in good+ condition.

The Tree of Life Book Two: From the Depths I Call You 1940–1942 Library of World Fiction

63424743 — University of Wisconsin Press pp. 408 Maps . Papeback. New. University of Wisconsin Press unknown

UNTER DER HAK: H. LEYVIK

1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 87 pages: portrait ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Beautiful copy in original wrappers with dramatic period cover; published in Chicago but printed in Rumania. SUBJECT (S) : Named Person: Leivick, H. , 1888-1962. OCLC: 19304010. Very Good Condition. (yid-41-70-BEFLXBB)

Los Postreros de una Magna Generacion [The Last of a Great Generation] [IN YIDDISH].

IN YIDDISH. 21x16cm. 350 pages. Hardcover. In good reading condition.

DI MEDEM SANATORYE: EYNAKTER: FUN YIDISH OYF PORTUGEZISHFT

1st Yiddish Edition. Original illustrated photographic paper wrappers. 8vo. 46 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust stageplay. Title translates to “The Medem Sanitorium.” Translated into Yiddish by Mosheh Lokiec. Zygmunt Turkow (1896–1970) was a Polish actor, director, playwright and director of Jewish origin from Warsaw, who became famous for roles in the pre-war Jewish films and stage plays in Yiddish. His brother, Jonas Turkow, was also a noted actor and stage manager. Shortly after German invasion of Poland in 1939 he left Poland together with his second wife. In 1940 he settled in Brazil. In 1952 he moved to Israel (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama. OCLC 122833421, OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (NYPL, YIVO, UIllinois, NYBC, Toronto, McGill). Crease through enter of pamphlet. Otherwise very good condition. Scarce. (YID-33-55-'elx)

Blau-Weiss Zionistische Sammelschriften

DI YIDN IN UKRAYNE : FUN DI ELTSTE TSAYTN BIZ NOKH TAH VETAT.

Rear board scuffed, otherwise Very Good Condition; 8vo; 262 pages; 24 cm. Includes added title page in English: "The Jews in the Ukraine, from the earliest times through 1648-1649." 1 of only 2000 copies printed. Good condition. (EE-3-35)

ILITSHS KINDER-YORN

Presume 1st Yiddish edition [Title page indicates “II uflage” (2nd edition), but we could locate no earlier Yiddish edition, so we presume this to indicate that the first edition was in Russian and this Yiddish edition is the 2nd edition]. Original modernist color illustrated paper wrappers bound into protective folder, 8vo, 25 pages. Includes photo illustration of author with her little brother, V.I. Lenin. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Ilich’s Childhood Years.” Nr. 10 in the serices, “Shul-un pyonern-bibliyotek.” SUBJECT(S):Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924 -- Childhood and youth. OCLC: 998762705. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (LOC and Harvard). Paper browning, stamps to cover, institutional stamp on copyright page, Good Condition Thus. Very Rare (Yid-42-5A)

Un Bonjour du Pays Natal: Poemes

15x22 cm. öã+254+LXXXIX pages. Paperback. Cover slightly dirty. Else in good condition.

MAYN SHTETL UNGEN : POEME.

Orignal Cloth. 8vo; 180 pages; 23 cm. Poetic reminiscences for this Moldovan Jewish community SUBJECT(S): Travel. Joodse literatuur. Yiddish poetry. Ungheni (Moldova) -- Description and travel -- Poetry. Moldova. Very Good Condition; (ee-1-1)

SCHWEIZER DIALEKTE IN TEXT UND TON : BEGLEITTEXTE ZU DEN SPRECHPLATTEN DES PHONOGRAMM-ARCHIVS DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH: I DEUTSCHE SCHWEIZ HEFT 4 SURBTALER JIDDISCH.

4to. 52 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : German language; Switzerland – languages – dialects. Very good condition. (GER-15-43)

TSAYTSHRIFT: FAR YIDISHER GESHIKHTE, DEMOGRAFIE UN EKONOMIK, LITERATUR-FORSHUNG, SHPRAKHVISNSHAFT UN ETNOGRAFIE [BAND 2 -3]

Later 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)

BIULETIN FUN "BUND." NRS. 2 (AUG 1, 1947) & 3 (SEPT 1, 1947) .

New York, Der Komitet, 1942. Paper Wrappers, 4to 8 pages. Published by the "World Organization of the "Bund" and Kindred Jewish Socialist Organizations. " This is not the monthly of the same name published beginning in 1960. Very scarce Bundist monthly from just after the war; interesting articles critiquing Zionism, the labor movement, Eastern Europe, the refugee crisis, etc. Even using alternate transliterated spellings, we were unable to locate copies of this periodical anywhere (OCLC, YIVO, Harvard, etc) . Presume not many issues published, perhaps none following these included here. Very Good+ Condition. Beautiful examples and very scarce. (Y-41)