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Nrs. 75(1928, Nr. 15); 92 (1929, Nr 8), 103 (1929, Nr. 19), 105 (1929, Nr. 21), 106 (1929, Nr. 22), 112 (1930, Nr 3), 114 (1930, Nr. 5), 115 (1930, Nr. 6), 118 (1930, Nr. 9), 119 (1930, Nr. 10), 120 (1930, Nr. 11), & 129 (1930, Nr. 20). Varsha [i. E. Warsaw]: Di Welt, 1929-30. Paper Wrappers, 4to (tabloid format) , 16 pages each issue. Many with photos or Socialist Realism illustrations on cover. This Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper for Young people ran from Dec. 1, 1922 until sometime in 1948, in various formats at different times. In addition to these issues from 1929-1930 out of Warsaw, the journal was later published in Lodz and Paris, and was edited, in succession, by L. Hechtman, J. Mendelsohn, J. Gutgold, & L. Blit. Issues present here are: SUBJECT(S) : Jewish socialists -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jewish youth -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. OCLC lists only 1 holding (NYPL) . Newsprint, so paper is brown, but solid, not split at the binding. In any case, all wear is at the extreme margins, with, remarkably, no text loss whatsoever. Good Condition(Y-28) . Price is per issue
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 445, [9], [12] pages. 22 cm. Edition. In Hebrew; one appendix in Russian; added t. P. And introductory matter in English. Folded map attached to lining paper. A history of the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidjan, with detailed sections on immigration and population figures, local and international funding and support for the colonization project, industry, agriculture, forestry, construction, handicrafts, medical services, literature, art, education and culture, Jewish life in the region, and the place of Yiddish. In the series: Sidrat "Galuyot" volume 2. Subjects: Birobidzhan (Russia) - History. Light soiling to cloth and outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-5-43A) Xx
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 433 pages. 25 cm. First English edition. With over 100 fascimile reproductions, and detailed catalogue of 154 inscriptions on ritual objects, tombstones, and other materials. Added title page: Corpus inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum, a temporibus saeculi III. , quae exstant, usque ad annum 1686. Revised English version of: Magyarországi zsidó feliratok a III. Századtól 1686-ig. 1960. Sandor Scheiber (19131985) , rabbi and scholar, rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. As an editor and publisher, Scheiber took particular interest in Jewish sacred folklore, the history of Hungarian Jewry, and the connections between Hungarian folklore and world literature. He wrote significant works on János Arany and Kálmán Mikszáth, and kept a diary, written in the form of letters to his brother. After 1933, he published as many as 1, 600 works; one of the most important is his Geniza Studies (1981) , summarizing the results of 40 years of research. He also published the Kaufmann Haggadah (1957) , Immánuel Löws Fauna und Mineralien (1969) and Studien zur jüdischen Folklore (1975) , as well as Ignác Goldzihers Tagebuch (Diary; 1977) , the Maimúni Kódex (1984) , the Heller Bernát Emlékkönyv (Memorial Volume; 1943) , the Low Immánuel Emlékkönyv (Memorial Volume; 1947) , and the Ignace Goldziher Memorial Volume II (1958) . (YIVO Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jewish inscriptions - Hungary. Inscriptions, Hebrew - Hungary. Jewish epitaphs - Hungary. Jews - Hungary - Genealogy. Inscripties. Joden. Inscriptions hébraïques - Hongrie. Épitaphes juives - Hongrie. Juifs - Hongrie. Hungary - Genealogy. Hongrie - Antiquités. Clean and fresh in good jacket. Very good + condition. (EE-5-6)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 161 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished refugees into Western Europe. Moses Avigdor Shulvass (19091988) , scholar and educator. Born in Plonsk, Poland, Shulvass studied in Berlin. He lived in Erez Israel from 1938 to 1948 and then immigrated to the United States, where he eventually became professor of Jewish history at Spertus College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His publications in many languages include historical studies on Italian Jewry. Of special interest are his books Roma ve-Yerushalayim (Rome and Jerusalem, 1945) ; Hayyei ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance (Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, 1955) ; and his biographical sketch of Samuel David Luzzatto with documentary supporting material, Pirkei Hayyim (1951) . He also published two volumes of essays on various aspects of Jewish history, Bi-Zevat ha-Dorot (In the Grip of Generations, 1960) and Between the Rhine and Bosphorus (1964) as well as Die Juden in Wuerzburg waehrend des Mittelalters (1934) . He also wrote From East to West (1971) , Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe (1975) , and The History of the Jewish People (1982) . (EJ 2008) Subjects: Jews - Germany - History - 1096-1800. Jews - Poland - History. Jews - Migrations. Joden. Migratie (demografie) Migration. Geschichte 1600-1800. Very clean and fresh in VG jacket. Very good + condition. (EE-5-37)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 60 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German. Insribed on title page. An explanation of the Kaddish prayer. The author, Wolf S. Jacobson was a leader of Agudas Yisroel in Berlin between the world wars; he emigrated to Denmark and served as Orthodox Rabbi at Machsike Hadas in Copenhagen; then to Sweden in 1943, and finally to Israel. Subjects: Kaddish. OCLC lists 21 copies. Light soiling to outer edges, overall very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-6A)
Stiff Wrappers, Small 8vo, 109 pages, with an additional [9] leaves of plates (1 folds out). 21 cm. In Yiddish. Added title page: "'Treblinka.' Reportaz". Series: Oysgabe fun der tsentraler Yidisher historisher komisye baym Ts. K. fun poylishe yidn ; number 33. SUBJECT(S): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Pages tanned. Some chipping to edges of wraps. Good Condition. Scarce (HOLO2-57-12A).
First edition. Period boards. 8vo, 92 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to A Provincial Newspaper. Miriam Karpilove (1888-1956) was one of the most prolific and widely published women writers of Yiddish prose. Her short stories and novels explore issues important in the lives of Jewish women of her generation. Frequent themes are the upbringing of girls and women in Eastern Europe, the barriers they encounter when they seek secular education, and the conflicts they experience upon immigration to North America. (Kellman, JWA, 2016) Over the course of her life, Karpilove lived in Minsk, Palestine, NYC, and finally Connecticut. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Some light water stains to top margins. Overall in Very Good Condition with few markings. (YID-23-13)
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 297 pages. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Thresholds: A Trilogy. Levadi (1898 - 1973) was Russian writer. He served in the Turkish army during WWI and was stationed in Palestine. He moved to America in 1921 where his literary career blossomed. In this volume, Levadi designed the title page and included a glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish words that the author used in the trilogy. (Yiddish Leksikon, 2017) . SUBJECTS: Autobiographical fiction. Yiddish fiction. Very light soiling to cloth. Very Good Condition. (YID-40-56-CLX)
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 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)
Original Cloth. 16mo. 180 pages. 15 cm. First edition. Inscribed by Peretz Hirschbien, Colorado, 1918; . In Yiddish. On the Morningstar, a work of drama composed by poems by Peretz Hirshbeyn (18801948) , the acclaimed playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director. OCLC lists 20 copies. Subjects: Yiddish Literature. Hinges starting, light stain to back page, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (YID-18-5)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 256, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. A study of the religious life of the communities bordering on Hungary and Rumania, with many documents concerning the rabbinate. Subjects: Jews - Romania - Transylvania. Jews - Romania - History. OCLC lists 25 copies. Pages aged, light wear to edges of cloth, overall fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-11)
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXXIII, 749 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Bibliography: v. 2, p. 703-719. Both a biography of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, a collection of his responsa translated from manuscripts, and a history of Jewish life in thirteenth century Germany. Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg (c. 12151293) , teacher, scholar, tosafist, and supreme arbiter in ritual, legal, and community matters in Germany. Subjects: Responsa. Responsa - 1040-1600. Jews - Germany. Meir ben Baruch, of Rothenburg, approximately 1215-1293. Light soiling to cloth, light wear to backstrip, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-53)
New York, Der Komitet, 1946-47. Paper Wrappers, Folio (Road Atlas size, 35 cm) , 32 pages. "Unity. " 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. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Preceeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1942.SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide (LOC, UCLA, Columbia) . Bound in blank paper wrappers. Cover on 1945 has detached, with a bit of edgewear to the first and last pages; All printed on good paper, so condition remains Good+ Solid. Important volumes straddling the end of the war and the early post war period. (Y-37B) . Price per each issue.
New York, Der Komitet, 1943. Paper Wrappers, Large 4to (Life Magazine size) , 28 pages. "Unity. " Short-lived (1942-43 only) Yiddish Communist monthly for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Succeeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1944. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (LOC & NYPL) . Very Good Condition. (Y-38)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 123 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Title page verso: Wei oun wander; Douleur sans foyer, poe´sies. Sorrow Without a Home, post-holocaust poetry, with some pre-war poems, by Israel Aszendorf; published in Paris by the Yiddish Writers Club, illustrated by the famous Jewish artist, Benn. With frontispiece portrait of the author. Israel Ashendorf (19091956) , Yiddish poet, short story writer, and dramatist. Ashendorf grew up and lived in Lemberg (Lwow) , Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine) , until World War II, when he fled to Uzbekistan. He spent five years in Paris and immigrated to Argentina in 1953. In Buenos Aires he served as supervisor of Jewish secular schools, taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and contributed to the Yidishe Tsaytung. His first poems were published in 1927, and thereafter he contributed to Yiddish periodicals in Europe, the Americas, and Israel. In 1929, he was co-editor of the literary journal Tsushtayer. Collections of his poetry were published in 1937, 1939, 1941, 1950, and 1956. His biblical dramas Der Meylekh Shoel (King Saul, 1948) and Der Meylekh Dovid (King David, 1956) express a pessimistic worldview. The posthumous collection Letste Shriftn (Last Writings, 1958) includes his poems and short stories. (EJ, 2007) Subjects: Yiddish Poetry. OCLC lists 20 copies. Front cover repair, backstrip torn at top and bottom, first page lightly torn at edge; otherwise, clean and fresh, binding firm. Good condition. (YID-18-1)
Nyu York : Linguist Pub. Co. , 1943. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 247, 195 pages. The final 2 volumes in an annual which ran from 1939 until 1943. 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature -- Bio-bibliography. OCLC lists 11 holdings worldwide. Institutional stamp, wear & chips to wrappers, Good Condition. Other volumes available, please ask. (Y-30) Price is per volume
Publishers cloth. 4to. 112 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. The Jewish City of Lublin. With 60 illustrations. Monograph of Lublins Jewish history by Majer Balaban (18771942) , historian and educator. Majer Balaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic responsa. Balaban completed his dissertation in 1904, on Jews in Lwów at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Zydzi lwowscy na przelomie XVIgo I XVIIgo wieku; 1906) . Thereafter he taught in secondary schools until the outbreak of World War I, when he served as a military chaplain in the Austrian army. While stationed in Lublin, he took advantage of the opportunity to prepare a short monograph on the history of Jews in that community. (YIVO Encyclopedia) . His book on the Jews of Lublin, Die Judenstadt von Lublin (Berlin, 1919) , is a vivid survey of history of the Jews in that city. (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Jews - Poland. Lublin (Poland) . Poland; social history under capitalism, before 1945; social conditions; social groups; (movements of) national minorities; Jews. Binding repaired; light soiling to cloth, pages aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-31)
Original illustrated Wraps. 12mo. 50 pages. 20 cm. First English edition. With 28 illustrations. A brief history of the Jews in Hungary before and after 1945. The second part of the booklet contains pictures of synagogues and of community life. The author was head of the Jewish Museum of Budapest for many years, and was the sister of Imre Benoschofsky, chief Rabbi of Budapest. Subjects: Jews - Hungary - History. OCLC lists 12 copies. Fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (EE-5-8) Xx
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 112 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Twenty One and One: About Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by the Nazis in Vilna, 1941-1942." Preface by A. Morewski and Leiser Ran. Subjects: Jewish actors -- Biography. Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Yiddish drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Jewish actors. Jews -- Persecutions. Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Spine is starting. Light soiling to cover. Internally very clean. Overall good condition. (YID-23-6)
Original wrappers. 8vo. 260 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Documents of Crime and Martyrdom. A Montevideo-published Yiddish translation of Michal Borwiczs Dokumenty zbrodni I meczénstwa. Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947. After emigrating to France in 1947, he directed the Centre d'etude de l`histoire des Juifs (Polonais) (Center for Research of the History of the Jews of Poland) in Paris until his death. (EHRI, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (OCLC: 10601885) . Pages are browning and brittle. Some chipping and edge wear. Otherwise good. (YID-40-61-L-'x)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 86 pages, 24 cm. In English. This issue is dedicated to esteemed Yiddish writer, David Pinski. Pinski (1872-1959) is perhaps best known as a playwright. He explored topics that were previously ignored, like urban Jewish workers and sexuality. There are 11 articles dedicated to his work. SUBJECTS: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals. Intellectual life. Wrappers are edge worn. Otherwise very good condition. (YID-41-22)
Softbound. 8vo. 221, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In French. Birobidjan, a Jewish land of the USSR. With 8 pages of color photographs of Birobidjan from the late 1980s. Subjects: Jews - Russia (Federation) - Birobidzhan. Juifs - Russie - Région autonome des Juifs. Birobidzhan (Russia) Birobidjan (URSS ; région autonome juive) . Light wear to wraps and edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (EE-5-44)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. Xvi, 142 pages. 22 cm. Illustrated. First U. S. Edition. Black and white photographs, as well as diagrams and charts. The Jews of the former Soviet Union have always been the subject of intense controversy. In the past 25 years, especially, they have been the source of considerable speculation. [ ]The issues swirling around the Jews in the republics now known as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have sparked debate because of the status of these Jews has deep policy implications for Russia, Israel, the United States, and other countries. [ ] This volume is the first based on an on-site survey of Jews in the CIS. In addition to providing data on the Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk who collectively account for over a quarter of all Jews residing in the three Slavic republics of the CIS the author places the survey results in their social and historical contexts. He explains why ethnic distinctiveness persisted and even became accentuated in the Soviet era and also describes the position of Jews in Soviet and post-Soviet society and some of the dilemmas they face. (Dust jacket description) Subjects: Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Politics and government. Jews Identity. Jews -- Migrations. Antisemitism. Former Soviet republics -- Ethnic relations. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve. Fine, like new condition. (EE-6-8)
Publishers boards. 8vo. 495 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated. First edition. 12 leaves of plates with reproductions of documents, black and white photographs, and early 20th century artwork in color and black and white. English title page, with title translated as Russian-Jewish Culture. Table of content and essay abstracts in Russian and English. Collection of materials presented at a conference in Moscow in 2005. Deals with various aspects of Russian-Jewish culture: everyday life, political life and the life of the artistic elite, artistic legacy and literature. Subjects: Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Jews -- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Some rubbing to boards and light edge wear. Text is clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-6-14)