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First edition. Original wrappers featuring a beautiful illustration of Judah Maccabi. 8vo. 24 pages; text is partially vocalized. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Judah The Maccabi: A Historical Operetta in Two Acts. SUBJECTS: Judas, Maccabeus, -161 B. C. -- Drama. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Binding repaired. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-27-41)
Publishers Cloth. 4to. 209 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Inscribed in Yiddish by author on front end paper. Written by Israel Rabinovitch (1894-1964) , an accomplished musician and writer, was chief editor of the Montreal Yiddish daily newspaper, the Keneder Adler, from 1924 to 1964. Following in the tradition of fellow musicologist Professor Abraham Tzvi Idelsohn, whom he greatly admired, Rabinovitch used the Keneder Adler as a platform to share his love for Jewish music, writing widely about it and contributing to the status and knowledge of hazzanut (cantorial arts) in Canada. In 1940, Rabinovitch published the book Muzik bai Yidn (Music by Jews) , which was translated from Yiddish into English by A. M. Klein in 1952 under the title Jewish Music: Ancient and Modern. Rabinovitch was one of the founders of the Jewish Public Library, a leader in the Labour Zionist group Poale Zion, and also the first president of the Jewish Music Council of Montreal. He passed away in Montreal in 1964. As Cantor Nathan Mendelson of the Shaar Hashomayim wrote in his obituary of Rabinovitch, his song, the song of our people remains eternal. (Le musée interactif du Montréal juif; Israel Rabinovitch) Subjects: Jews - Music - History and criticism. Hingest starting, but solid. Good+ condition. (YID-18-11)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 48 pages, 27 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Canada: Periodical Literature Journal. S Edited by Y. Rabinowitz and S. Skolnikov. The Montreal Jewish community is Canadas second largest and is home to many Canadian Jewish institutions, including the Jewish Public Library of Montreal, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- Canada -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (NYPL, YIVO, JTS, Brandeis, NLI) , none south or west of New York. Ex-library with usual markings. Wrappers are edge worn. Internally Very Good. Overall Good Condition. Scarce. (YID-40-58)
1st 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)
1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 324 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Between War and Peace. Nachman Shemen was a prominent Toronto rabbi. He was born in Poland and moved to Canada in 1930, where he was a disciple of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart (Gasner, 2012) . SUBJECTS: War. Peace. Politics and government. Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945.Wrappers are soiled with damp stains on first three pages. All contents are good. Overall Good Condition. (YID-40-62-CLX)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers with portrait of Vertinskii on front wrapper, bound into later pamphlet protector.. 8vo. 14 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Twelve Songs. Vertinsky (1889 - 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor of Ukrainian origin who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. He toured extensively throughout Russia and the USSR and appeared in many Russian films. His legacy includes the Stalin Prize and a Soviet astronomer even named a small planet after him. (Wikipedia, 2018) SUBJECTS: Songs, Russian -- Translations into Yiddish. OCLC: 53135253. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Harvard and YIVO) . Ex-library with one faded stamp on front wrapper. Light soiling to wrappers. Contents are clear and very good. Some pages are a bit wavy. Very Good Condition. Rare. (YID-40-55-X-'l) xx
Original boards. 8vo. 192, 186 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Theater and Drama. Michael Weichert (1890-1967) was a Galician Jewish theater director, historian, activist, and critic. He directed plays for the Vilner Trupe and published numerous articles on drama and theater history (YIVO). SUBJECTS: Theater, Yiddish. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC:42036360). Title page repair. Pages browning. Overall good condition. (YID-33-15-L-xe)
1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 16mo (small) , 63 pages, 17 cm. Includes portrait of the author (tipped in as published) . A rare Yung Vilne publication. The cover makes use of an interesting period modernist font and design; the title page uses a different but striking constructivist layout and font as well. hil'e getseykhnt? , Roz'e Sutskever ; portret? , Bentye Mikt? Om. Rosa Sutzkever was one of the best-known artists of Vilna, and had trained at the Art Academy there (Bogen, 1991) and was part of Yung Vilna. Yung-Vilne (Young Vilna) , was a Yiddish literary group, introduced in the daily Vilner Tog in 1929 with the headline: Young Vilna Marches into Yiddish Literature. It aroused excitement through its miscellanies (Yung-Vilne, 193436) , its contributions to local and international Yiddish journals, and individual books of verse and fiction. Principal members included poets Chaim Grade , Shimshon Kahan, Peretz Miransky, Abraham Sutzkever , Elkhanan Wogler, and Leyzer Wolf , prose writers Shmerke Kaczerginski and Moyshe Levin, and artists Bentsie Mikhtom and Rokhl Sutzkever. Dozens more were associated with the group, whose members were united by generation, place, a shared humanistic orientation, and the encouragement of local intellectuals like Zalman Rejzen and Max Weinreich . A Yung-Vilne evening in the Vilna ghetto, the participation of several members in the partisan underground, and the accomplishments of Grade and Sutzkever as leading postwar Yiddish writers assure that Yung-Vilne will be remembered as one of the great incubators of Jewish creativity in interwar Poland (Lipzin & Cammy, 2007) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (NYBC, HUC, McGill, TAU) . Title penned on spine, paper toning, touch of wear to corner, about Very Good Condition. Rare, important, and attractive (Yid-29-35)
1st edition. Period boards with original illustrated cover mounted on front, 12mo, 138 + [5] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Complete Yiddish texts printed after each song. Contents: [1]. Folk? S-lider -- [2.] 80 Folk? S-lider. Yiddish folk songs for (medium) solo voice. Menahem Kipnis was "born in Ushomir, Ukraine in 1878. He was a singer, folklore collector, writer and photographer. From 1912 to 1932 he toured Poland, Germany and France, appearing in concerts with his wife Zimra Seligfeld in combined lecture - performances of the Jewish folk songs which he had collected and studied. He published collections of folk songs and songs for children, and was active in the Polish cantors' organization. He submitted a number of his photographs to the Forverts which were published in that newspaper in the 1920's. He died in 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto. " (Guide to the Yivo Archives) . SUBJECT(S) : Folk songs, Yiddish. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Paper browning and fragile as expected. Rear hinge starting, but very usable. About Good- condition. (music-7-2).
194443416No Place New York Fereynigte Yidishe Geverkshaftn United Hebrew Trades 1944. 1st edition broadside single-sided flyer 4to. In Yiddish. <br> <br> Translation: "ALL OUT TO THE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF GRIEF AND RAGE!<br> Monday July 31st 4:45 PM<br> in Madison Square Park<br> <br> Sisters and brothers!<br> We invite you to participate in the great public demonstration that will take place<br> Monday July 31 4:45 p.m.<br> in Madison Square Park Madison Avenue and 24th Street<br> <br> Millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis in all parts of Europe. Young and old women and men were driven into gas and death chambers and destroyed. In the current hour the greatest danger for those still alive in the Nazi countries.<br> The Hitlerian beast which conquered and humiliated countries and murdered millions of people is ready to strangle and murder the surviving remnants of the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary are now in danger of death the tens of thousands of Jews left alive in Poland in France in Belgium in the Czech Republic where they are under Hitler's rule.<br> <br> In order to express our grief and anger to cry out our grief and appeal for help to the United Nations at the last moment a public demonstration is called by the Rescue Committee of the General Jewish Conference.<br> <br> We cannot and must not remain silent. People must help save the survivors. Come express your feelings desires and demands! It is demanding that the United Nations do everything possible to stop the death march! It is demanded that all those who are guilty of the murders will be brought to justice!<br> The Nazi victims who are now struggling between death and life must know that we are with them.<br> At a conference of representatives of the trade union organizations called by the Jewish Labor Committee it was decided to actively participate in the great national demonstration. We must do everything we can so that the demonstration will be imposing and effective.<br> <br> Leave the store no later than 4 o'clock. Marched to the site of the demonstration in Madison Square Park. Overtime is not allowed on this day.<br> With Trade Union Regards<br> United Hebrew Trades<br> Reuven Guskin President<br> Maurice Tigel Vice-President<br> William Wolpert Executive Secretary"<br> <br> <br> The rally was covered by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency JTA the next day:<br> <br> "Tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews crowded Madison Square Park today at an open-air mass-demonstration in behalf of the Jews of Hungary and other parts of Nazi Europe sponsored by the 64 affiliated agencies of the American Jewish Conference with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee and other national organizations.<br> Speakers at the demonstration included Assistant U. S. Attorney General Norman M. Littell who is secretary of the National Committee Against Persecution of Jews; Dr. Stephen S.Wise president of the American Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Judge Joseph M. Proskauer president of the American Jewish Committee; Henry Monsky president of B'nai B'rith and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Adolph Held president of the Jewish Labor Committee and many other noted Jewish and Christian leaders.<br> The huge mass-meeting in which Jews from all walks of life participated adopted a declaration stating that it is not yet too late 'to save thousands upon thousands' of Jews for the day of liberation. The meeting appealed in the first instance to President Roosevelt and the Government of the United States and through them to the United Nations and to the neutral states." <br> <br> The original JTA covers including a full list of the demands from the rally and other details can be viewed at www.jta.org/archive/huge-open-air-demonstration-in-new-york-demands-rescue-of-jews-from-europe<br> <br> Leading national Jewish organizations organized this July 31 1944 Madison Square Park mass rally to demand Allied action against the Nazi slaughter of European Jews. <br> New York had at the time the world's biggest Jewish population with a Jewish community of around 2 million. The city had hosted numerous similar rallies over the previous decade all focused on building opposition to Hitler and support for the struggling Jews of Europe. <br> <br> Beginning on March 4 1934 "One year after Hitler's ascension to power in Germany tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear the words of Rabbi Stephen Wise. 'Despite the oceanic tragedy which has befallen us' Wise pronounced 'we Jews tonight joining in the chorus of civilization indict Hitlerism as humans as members of civilized society before the high court of human judgment.' <br> Wise's words resonated for audience members attending the rally that March night. Over the course of the evening they heard from a chorus of voices representing the American public self-identifying across different racial religious and ideological lines. Framed as a 'court' the speakers at the rally gathered to indict Hitler for his crimes against civilization an intentionally pointed term that would offend Nazi ideologues claiming to protect civilization through Aryan supremacy. This mock trial was part of a larger trend of American Jewish protest performances staged during the Third Reich that intended to garner support for the rescue of European Jews.<br> On March 27 the AJCongress American Jewish Congress successfully staged a rally titled Stop Hitler Now to an audience of twenty thousand Jews in Madison Square Garden. Outside of the Garden thirty-five thousand people stood protesting and ten thousand more marched through Brooklyn in solidarity. Simultaneous protests also occurred in major cities across the country. The United Press estimated that one million protesters participated in the nationwide demonstration that day. <br> In retaliation to the American uproar Hitler threatened a one-day boycott against German Jewish businesses to be resumed three days later if 'international protests' did not cease. Wise after speaking with Undersecretary William Phillips at the State Department agreed to a brief silence on the matter" Gonzalez Maya. Imagining the "Day of Reckoning": AmericanJewish Performance Activism during the Holocaust. Masters Thesis UMass-Amherst 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33069 <br> We could locate no recorded examples of this flyer anywhere using OCLC ArchiveGrid or a google search. <br> <br> Staple hole in upper right corner margin slight corner loss to lower left margin no text affected in either case light toning about Very Good Condition. Rare and displayable Holo2-163-30. No Place [New York], Fereynigte Yidishe Geverkshaftn [United Hebrew Trades] unknown
191243120Nyu York New York: Forverts 1912. First edition. Original boards 8vo 266 266 268 pages. 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Collected Writings.â€<br> Full set of Morris Rosenfeld’s collected works. Volume 1 contains poetry Volume 2 and 3 contain stories. Warmly inscribed by Rosenfeld in 1913 to Yiddish actor and director Mark Schweid 1891-1969: “To my dearest friend actor and poet Mark Shvayd. From Morris Rosenfeld 3. 2nd i.e. 3 of Feb 1913.†<br> “Rosenfeld known as the ‘Poet Laureate of Labor’ was a pioneer of Yiddish poetry in the US. Born in Russian Poland he came to New York by way of London in 1889 and worked as a presser in a sweatshop. His sweatshop songs were often sung by Jewish workers in factories and at mass meetings. Moshe Starkman notes in the EJ that when his Lider-Bukh ‘The Book of Songs’ 1897 was translated in 1898 by Leo Wiener under the title Songs from the Ghetto his fame spread to non-Yiddish circles. Starkman also notes that ‘his proletarian poems and national songs stirred the Jewish masses during their early struggles in the New World and at the beginning of the Jewish national renascence’ sic. Aaron Kramer notes as well that ‘Of all Yiddish poets Morris Rosenfeld alone.was acknowledged by the non-Jewish literary world as a notable singer;’ Wiener's translation of Songs from the Ghetto ‘immediately established Rosenfeld's reputation among America's literati.†EJ 1971 14: 285-286; Kramer trans: The Teardrop Millionaire and Other Poems 1955.<br> Mark Shveyd Schweid 1891-1969 to whom Rosenfeld inscribed this copy was a “playwright poet translator and artist born in Warsaw. His original Jewish given name was Volf-Mortkhe.…in 1911 he graduated from a Polish drama school in Warsaw and went on to act in Yiddish theaters and on the Polish stage as well. In 1911 he emigrated to the United States performed in New York’s Yiddish theaters and from 1921 was one of the principal artists in Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater. From 1926 he was also acting on the English-language stage.<br> He wrote poetry drama studies one-act plays plays and longer articles on theater. He debuted in print in 1907 with poems in Roman-tsaytung….From 1946 he was an internal contributor to Forverts Forward in New York.<br> Shveyd wrote adapted or translated roughly fifty plays†as well as 9 books. <br> “Shveyd also translated novels from Polish Russian German and English some of which were published such as: Israel Zangwill Troymers fun’m geto Dreamers of the ghetto vol. 1 New York: M. Yankovitsh 1929 341 pp.; Stanislaw Przybyszewski Fun’m obgrund Out of the depths original: De Profundis New York n.d. 79 pp.; Fyodor Dostoevsky Erniderigte un baleytigte Humiliated and insulted original: Unizhennye i oskorblennye New York: Max Jankovitz 1920s 2 vols. Two novels he adapted were published in Warsaw’s Moment†Yekhezkl Lifshits in Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur.<br> Schweid was director of the Bronx Art Theatre in 1930-1931; a partial collection of his papers is at the Center for Jewish History in New York. SUBJECTS: Yiddish language. Yiddish poetry. Short stories Yiddish. OCLC: 3758034<br> Vol I with inscription has unobtrusive number on spine and old Yiddish institutional stamp at bottom of inscribed endpaper with gutter taped at contents page. Otherwise a Very Good Condition set with important inscription. YID-46-36--’cc. Nyu York [New York]: Forverts unknown
190942930New York: Ferlag "Kibets 1909. 1st Edition. Original publisher’s binding Folio newspaper. Complete first volume Starting with Vol I Nr 1 of “Der Kibitser†Dec. 15 1908 renamed and renumbered first as Vol I Nr 1 Jan 22 1909 of “Der Groyser Kibetser The big kibetzer†with the following issue of Feb 5 numbered as "3" to correctly follow from the first issue and then with Vol I Nr 6 March 19 1909 onward as “Der Groyser Kundes The Big Stick†or “The Big Prankster.†Incidentally the other set of this volume we examined also did not have a Nr 2 so we are confident this is complete as issued. <br> One centerfold cartoon by Zuni Maud see image features "Der Kaptialistisher Tayfel"--the Capitalist Devil–holding back a "mother" by the hair to stop her from interfering as "baby's milk-bottle" is drained off by the "milk-trust" cat. <br> The caption reads "The Capitalist Devil: - to the mother: Never mind madam all in English in Hebrew letters you go to the factory the milk-trust will take good care of your baby."<br> This cartoon-laden periodical was a New York City Yiddish language satirical bi- weekly which ran from 1908 until 1927.<br> The humor paper was issued biweekly this volume for its first 20 months and then weekly after that. OCLC also references another Vol I Nr 1 from April 15 1908 a special S´imhes` Toyreh Simchas Torah issue but this may have been a one-off. <br> Founded by the humorist Yosef Tunkel or Der Tunkeler his pen name meaning 'The Dark One' the paper was taken on by Jacob Marinoff when Tunkel left to work for an established paper in Warsaw. The paper consciously set itself up in opposition to the serious Yiddish-language press of the time such as the socialist Forverts.Naturally more traditional religious Judaism did not escape its satire: The later 1915 "Christmas" edition included a parodic conversation between Jesus and the prophet Elijah. <br> Despite its irreverent attitude to everything it also published poetry by Di Yunge "The Young Ones" poets such as Moyshe-Leyb Halpern and Zuni Maud. At its height it had a circulation of 35000 but folded in 1927 due to flagging sales. Der Groyer Kunds is highlighted in this recent talk by Yiddish comics scholar Eddie Portnoy on the reactions in the Yiddish press to restrictions on Jewish immigration to the US: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/archival-recordings/recorded- programs/ybcr-nybc-ybcr-1048/door-slams-shut-reactions-yiddish-press-immigr ation .<br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish wit and humor -- Periodicals. OCLC: 28297536. Most holdings appear to be fragmentary and do not include these issues. Issue 18 with torn cover. In final issue the bottom margin suffers some loss to the final leaves none to the dramatic front cover though. Damaged boards are loose and most issues are coming loose though the quality paper used has remaind strong and bright much better than standard newsprint would have. Important graphic Yiddish humor from the great migration period. Dramatic and displayable! BK5 YID-43-9A-LEX. [New York]: Ferlag "Kibets unknown
189843426New York: N.M. Shaikewitz 1898. First edition staple binding 4to 29-31 pages each issue 30 cm. In Yiddish. <br> Three issues of Di Tsayt a monthly Yiddish language publication published in New York. The journal ran from 1897-1898. Singerman S582; Freidus p. 282 Weissberger 56. <br> "Menahem Mendel Dolitzky was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet and novelist. Born in Bialystok he received a traditional Orthodox education and as a teenager became interested in the ideas of the Haskalah.He served as a Hebrew teacher in various towns and in 1881 was an eyewitness to pogroms in southern Russia which had a profound effect on him.<br> .In 1892 when the Jews were expelled from Moscow Dolitzki emigrated to New York and was warmly received by the small band of Hebrew maskilim in the U.S. He began publishing descriptions of the persecution of Jews in Russia in the journal Ha-Ivri mainly in poetic form.Despite the efforts of the Hebraists in the U.S. to assist him he found no way of making a living from Hebrew writing. After working at various jobs he finally took up writing for the daily Yiddish press turning out serialized novels which catered to the popular reader" EJ. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- New York State -- New York -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 50546431. OCLC and Singerman together locate 4 complete holdings Harvard NYPL YIVO HUC and one of vol I only Yale. <br> <br> Lacks original outer paper wrappers some toning Good Condition Scarce YID-48-109. [New York: N.M. Shaikewitz] unknown
193842985Nyu York New York: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn 1938. First edition. Original printed leather binding 4to 397 3 pages. Includes illustrations and facsimiles. 29 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Jewish Mutual Aid Societies of New York.â€<br> Research project led by the Works Progress Administration which contains articles about the history and activities of Jewish mutual aid societies in New York. Contains reviews of landmanshaft publications as well as a directory of all landsmanshaftn in the New York. <br> “Landsmanshaftn are societies formed by Jewish immigrants from the same villages towns and cities in Central and Eastern Europe. The landsmanshaft became a dominant form of Jewish social organization in the late 1800s. The many types of landsmanshaftn include religious and socialist organizations as well as American-style fraternal orders. Landsmanshaftn provided immigrants with formal and informal social networks and members helped one another with financial needs such as medical care and burial plots. In 1938 a Federal Works Progress Administration WPA project identified 2468 landsmanshaftn in New York City. The number of landsmanshaftn began to decline in the 1950s though some societies continue to exist today.†Center for Jewish History<br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- New York State -- New York. Fraternal organizations -- New York State -- New York. Jews. OCLC: 1018012020.<br> Wear to spine and inside hinges Good Condition. YIZ-23-32S-CCLEX. Nyu York [New York]: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn unknown
191942896No 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.<br> "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.â€<br> 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. <br> 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<br> 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
190643217London: "Arbayter fraynd 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards 8vo xiii 426 pages 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.â€<br> Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.†Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references.<br> “During his long exile Kropotkin wrote a series of influential works the most important being ‘Paroles d’un révolté’ 1885; “Words of a Rebelâ€.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. <br> 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.â€<br> SUBJECTS: Anarchism. OCLC: 19303211.<br> Ex-library with early 19th Century left-wing library markings see photos. Good- Condition YID-48-41-LXCCGG-’e. London: "Arbayter fraynd unknown
193735363New York; Posy-Shoulson Press 1937. 1st edition. Original Wraps. 4to. 4 171 2 23 pages. 28 cm. In Yiddish with English section and title page: Ten years Artef; published for the tenth anniversary of the Artef March 1937. <br> Extensively illustrated publication for the tenth year anniversary of the radical Yiddish theatre company Artef:<br> "the radical Yiddish dramatic troupe based in New York during the heyday of the Yiddish theater in America. Begun in the mid-1920s as a study group of amateur worker-actors at one time there were nine separate studios with over 120 students in the 1930s the troupe went professional putting on at least two and often three new plays per season. With such plays as Jacob Mostel 's Strike Shmuel Godiner 's Jim Kooperkop Avrum Vevioka 's Diamonds and Maxim Gorky 's Egor Bulychev and Dostigaev and Others Artef spread propaganda to the masses. Ideologically Artef was far left; its hope was a Communist society here in America. As a troupe its role was 'agit-prop' to agitate and propagandize to serve as the cultural representative of radical workers. In fact most of its tickets were pre-sold through worker unions and at least in its early years Artef gave presentations at political events.<br> Its first large-scale production was Mass Play and Ballet of the Russian Revolution which appeared at the Lenin memorial celebration in Madison Square Garden on January 21 1928. <br> Artef 's greatest artistic and commercial successes were connected with the talented productions of director Benno Schneider. Schneider who had been active in the Zionist Habima troupe in Moscow wed aesthetic excellence to revolutionary ideology with his interpretation of Aristocrats an adaptation of Sholem Aleichem 's Mentshn. Incidentally Schneider earned such a positive reputation with Artef that he received offers to direct on Broadway a promotion that cost the radical Yiddish theater dearly. <br> The end of the Artef was gradual and its causes were closely associated with the reduced role of Yiddish in American life. But there were bright lights before the darkness. During the 'days of the Popular Front ' when the Communists formed associations with less radical leftist parties the Artef attracted a larger audience which led to an optimistic expansion that later was responsible for huge financial losses. The darkness occurred at the end of the thirties when the number of Yiddish speakers began to diminish. The last performance of the Artef was on July 7 1941." Review by Dr. Brian Horowitz of 'Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef 1925–1940 ' written by Edna Nahshon. <br> Many of the actors and directors in Artef went on to establish solid careers on Broadway Hollywood and for those blacklisted overseas. <br> Bound in brown velour wraps with gilt title. Heavily illustrated. <br> Subjects: Arbeiter theatre verband New York. Jewish theater. Theater - New York State - New York. Artef - Anniversaries etc. <br> OCLC: 19310798. <br> Light wear to edges of wraps otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. B YID-22-9-LEBWW. New York; Posy-Shoulson Press unknown
193042782Rige Riga: Yungbukh 1930. 1st edition. Period boards with original covers bound in. 8vo. 157 pages 21 cm. In Yiddish with Latvian "front" cover and title page at rear. Title translates as "Canaan and Egypt: A Novel." <br> Wonderfully illustrated cover bound in featuring cartoonish drawings of Canaanites and Egyptians. Two volumes in one: 1. Yoysef in Mitsroyim and 2. Yosef der reter fun Mitsroyim. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish fiction. OCLC: 503648109. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide including copies of an undated edition which we assume to be a later reprint. <br> <br> Ex-library with usual marks. Paper brown and somewhat fragile old dampstain to lower edge of boards extending into margins of first and last leaves. Original bound-in covers have come loose. Good condition thus. B YID-33-27-L-'ccex. Rige [Riga]: Yungbukh unknown
195743419New York: Shalom-Alekhem folks shuln 1957. ; First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers bound by year into later paper outer wrappers for each yearly volume 4to each issue contains 18 pages includes illustrations. 26 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "Children's Journal."<br> All published copies of the famous Yiddish children's magazine Kinder Zhurnal from 1956 and 1957 during the Cold War. Six issues per year. <br> "Kinder zhurnal a children's magazine was in existence from 1920 to 1981. Its first editor Shmuel Niger served from 1922 to 1948. The magazine published works by writers such as Mani Leib Aleph Katz Jacob Glatstein Kadia Molodowsky. Farlag Matones was established in 1925 as a publisher of children's books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha Jacob Glatstein Chaim Grade Moses Moyshe Leib Halpern Leibush Lehrer Isaac Bashevis Singer Hillel Zeitlin Aaron Zeitlin. Lippa Lehrer was the manager and leading figure of both organizations and was editor of Kinder zhurnal for a number of years." YIVO<br> SUBJECTS: Children's literature Yiddish -- Periodicals. Children's literature Yiddish. OCLC: 10158059<br> Outer blank paper wrappers faded with light rusting to staples but issues themselves remain in Very Good Condition. YID-48-104-GGLEX-'cc. New York: Shalom-Alekhem folks shuln unknown
199042134Yohanesburg Johannesburg South Africa: Dorem Afrikaner Yidisher Kultur Federatsye 1990. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. Approximately 32 pages each 23 cm. In Yiddish withs some English advertisements. Title translates to "South Africa." South Africa's most well-known Yiddish journal published in Johannesburg from 1948-1991. Interesting period covered here the tumult of the late 60s. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Periodicals. OCLC: 01800240. Very Good Condition.Price per issue please specify YID-33-48AXX-EL. Yohanesburg [Johannesburg, South Africa]]: Dorem Afrikaner Yidisher Kultur Federatsye unknown
193843069Nyu York New York: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn 1938. First edition. Original printed leather binding 4to 397 3 pages. Includes illustrations and facsimiles. 29 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Jewish Mutual Aid Societies of New York.â€<br> Research project led by the Works Progress Administration which contains articles about the history and activities of Jewish mutual aid societies in New York. Contains reviews of landmanshaft publications as well as a directory of all landsmanshaftn in the New York. <br> “Landsmanshaftn are societies formed by Jewish immigrants from the same villages towns and cities in Central and Eastern Europe. The landsmanshaft became a dominant form of Jewish social organization in the late 1800s. The many types of landsmanshaftn include religious and socialist organizations as well as American-style fraternal orders. Landsmanshaftn provided immigrants with formal and informal social networks and members helped one another with financial needs such as medical care and burial plots. In 1938 a Federal Works Progress Administration WPA project identified 2468 landsmanshaftn in New York City. The number of landsmanshaftn began to decline in the 1950s though some societies continue to exist today.†Center for Jewish History<br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- New York State -- New York. Fraternal organizations -- New York State -- New York. Jews. OCLC: 1018012020.<br> Slight wear on spine. Good Condition. YIZ-23-32S-CCLEX. Nyu York [New York]: Aroysgegeben fun Y.L. Perets shrayber fareyn unknown
194613981Lodzsh: Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye baym Tsentral-Komitet fun Poylishe Yidn 1946. 1st edition. Later cloth with original dramatic photgraphic cover mounted on front 8vo 70 1 pages 1 l. includes facsimiles. 21 cm. Poems. "Oysgabes fun Der Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye baym Tsentral-Komitet fun Poylishe Yidn. Serye yidishe literatur 1." <br> A committee dedicated to recording the fate of Polish Jews published this book length poem by Simkhah Szajewics. Written in the Lodz Ghetto it appeared immediately after the war in 1946; Szajewicz perished in a concentration camp in 1944" from the permanent exhibit at the National Yiddish Book Center which houses their copy in their Rare Book Collection. <br> The book actually includes two long poems: "Lekh-lekha" and "Friling 702 " as well as letters and other related material. <br> See David Roskies interesting reflection on this work and it's stunning photographic cover at jtsa.edu/torah/go-forth-the-grammar-of-remembrance. <br> For more about the author-poet see Chava rosenfarb's essay on Shayevitch in Tablet Magazine at tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-last-poet-of-lodz. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Lódz. Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Poetry. Jews -- Correspondence. Expertly rebound in attractive black cloth with the original photographic front cover mounted on the front. Very Good Condition. B HOLO2-110-36-CCALX-'emm H-40-10. Lodzsh: Tsentraler Yidisher Historisher Komisye baym Tsentral-Komitet fun Poylishe Yidn unknown
193743101Kharkov: Ukrmelukhenatsmindfarlag 1937. First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers 8vo issues range from 129-196 pages each. Includes illustrations. 21-23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates roughly as “Challenge: A Literary Artistic and Critical Bibliographical Journal.â€<br> At the time the only Yiddish literary periodical in Ukraine.<br> Farmest 1933–1937 was a monthly Yiddish literary magazine published in Kharkhiv Ukraine by the Ukrainian Committee for Soviet Writers. “Edited by the poet Itsik Fefer 1900–1952 it was continued in Sovetishe literatur: Literarish-kinstlerisher un kritish-bibliografisher zhurnal Soviet Literature: Literary-Artistic and Critical-Bibliographical Journal; 1938–1941.<br> In 1927 Fefer was a founding member of the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Union of Proletarian Writers and from 1928 one of the editors of its Kharkov-based journal Prolit Proletarian Literature. He also coedited the nonproletarian Kharkov journal Di royte velt The Red World from 1929. From 1933 to 1937 he edited the Kiev periodical Farmest Challenge; known as Sovetishe literatur Soviet Literature between 1938 and 1941 which replaced Prolit and Di royte velt and was thereafter the only Yiddish literary periodical in Ukraine.†YIVO. Avrom Gontar was also involved in the collective and editorial committee. <br> The editor Itsik Fefer 1900–1952 “began writing poems in 1918 and in 1922 joined Vidervuks New Growth in Kiev a group of young Yiddish literati whose mentor was Dovid Hofshteyn. That same year the appearance of Fefer’s small collection Shpener Splinters established him as a rising literary star. His poetry amalgamated the Kultur-lige poets’ revolutionary romanticism with the propagandist objectives of the workers’ movement.<br> Fefer was known for his literary credo of proste reyd simple speech a concept he formulated in 1922. In the early 1920s poetry particularly avant-garde poetry swamped the literary pages of Soviet Yiddish periodicals. This phenomenon worried editors and critics who were wary of the fact that Yiddish readers usually could not identify with this style of literature. All Yiddish readers by contrast could understand Fefer’s proste reyd.<br> In 1927 Fefer was a founding member of the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Union of Proletarian Writers and from 1928 one of the editors of its Kharkov-based journal Prolit Proletarian Literature. He also coedited the nonproletarian Kharkov journal Di royte velt The Red World from 1929†Gennady Estraikh.<br> For more see: Gennady Estraikh “The Kharkiv Yiddish Literary World 1920s–Mid-1930s†East European Jewish Affairs 32.2 2002: 70–88; Chone Shmeruk “Yiddish Literature in the U.S.S.R.†in The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917 ed. Lionel Kochan pp. 242–280 London and New York 1970.<br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- Ukraine -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 35051038.<br> Some pages brittle some wear to spines. Overall Good Condition. Rare. YID-46-2-LGG-’excc. Kharkov: Ukrmelukhenatsmindfarlag unknown
194542269New York Der Komitet 1945. Paperback. 1st edition. Paper Wrappers Folio Road Atlas size 35 cm 32 pages. "Unity." <br> Yiddish Communist bimonthly from May 1944-Jan 15 1945 then monthly through 1947 for writers artists and scientists a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. <br> "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike." Preceded by periodical of the same name also published in New York in 1942. Important issues from the early post war period. <br> <br> SUBJECTS : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. <br> <br> January issue missing front cover which is pages 1-2; February issue has detached covers but complete. Good strong white paper. Good Condition Thus B Y-37D. New York, Der Komitet paperback
189543079Warsaw: 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.â€<br> 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.<br> “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.<br> 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. <br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 992802478. <br> 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