Minsk) Smolar, HershMareMagnum
Shtif, NahumMareMagnum
POGROMEN IN UKRAINE: DI TSAYT FUN DER FRAYVILIGER ARMEY
Later cloth. 12mo. 111 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Pogroms in Ukraine; The time of the Volunteer Army; a history of the Ukraine Pogroms carried out by the White Ukrainian forces (the Dobrovolcheskaya armiya) ; includes entries on Jewish Self-Defense Groups in the Ukraine. The author, Nokhem Shtif (18791933) , was a linguist, literary historian, and political activist. After the February 1917 Revolution, Shtif was among the founders of the revived Folkspartey (Folks Party) . Inspired by Simon Dubnow, the party had been first formed in 1907, but remained dormant throughout the following decade. He left Kiev in 1920, spending a short time in Minsk, where he and Zelig Kalmanovitch lectured for Yiddish teachers. Subsequently, Shtif moved to Kovno (Kaunas) , then a stronghold of the Folkspartey, but eventually settled in Berlin in March 1922. His book on pogroms in Ukraine was published in Berlin in Russian (Pogromy na Ukraine; 1922) and in Yiddish (Pogromen in Ukraine; 1923) . (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Bound in attractive later marbled boards and cloth, with gilt title on spine. Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Ukraine. Pogroms - Ukraine. Ukraine - History - Revolution, 1917-1921. Ukraine - Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 7 copies. With institutional bookstamps on title page, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (EE-5-18)
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