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Original 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)
8vo. Ix, vi, 180 pages. In Yiddish. Illustrated. SUBJECT (S) : Fiction; London, Jack, 1876-1916 translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Olgin (1878-1939) , originally named Moses Joseph Novomisky, was born near Kiev, where he studied at Kiev University and started a student group that became a branch of the Jewish Labor Bund. He left the University in 1904, and then left Russia two years later for Germany, where he continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 1914, after a return to Russia and then a year in Vienna, Olgin moved to New York and edited the Jewish Daily Forward. He founded the Yiddish-language Freiheit after joining the Workers Party in 1921, and was its editor for the rest of his life. Aside from London's Call of the Wild, Olgin translated Lenin's writings and John Reid's Ten Days that Shook the World. (Schulman, EJ) Ends of the spine are a little worn, back hinge beginning to crack, marks inside front cover where library card pocket has been removed, no other library marks, good condition. (HEB-4-18)
Original Stapled Wrappers. 4to. 34 pages. 28cm. In Russian. Translates to English as, "Workers' Cause." A bimonthly anarchist and platformist journal first published 1925 by a society called the Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad whose defeat by the Bolsheviks convinced the group that anarchists needed a stronger political structure, including political factions, a militia, and an executive committee. SUBJECTS: Anarchism -- Periodicals. Communism -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 15 copies. Lacks Pages 1-4, & 35-end. First and last sheets present are detached. All text is clear and in Good Condition. (RUS-11-33)
Original Cloth. 8vo. 308 pages. 22 cm. First Edition. Volume one only (of two volumes) . With frontispiece portrait of the author, and a dozen black and white photographs throughout. Pioneers and Builders, the memoirs of Bund activist John Mill (18701952) . John Mill (also known as Yoysef Shloyme Mil) was one of the founders of the Jewish Labor Bund and a central activist during its first two decades. [ ] He was instrumental in the creation of the Jewish Labor Bund, and indeed was one of 13 activists to participate in its founding congress in Vilna in 1897. As one of the Bunds main leaders in its first years, Mill held the important position of editor of the main party organ, Der yidisher arbeter. While strictly adhering to orthodox Marxism, he made independent and bold editorial decisions, including the choice to publish articles by the Bunds rivals such as Khayim Zhitlovski and Rosa Luxemburg. Forced to flee Russia after the wave of arrests that decimated the Bund leadership in 1898, he lived in exile in Geneva, where he established the Bunds Foreign Committee. Mill was one of the most vocal supporters to encourage the Bund to adopt a national program during debates at the organizations Third Congress (Kovno, December 1899) . Influenced by Austro-Marxist Karl Renner and the South Slav delegations proposal at the Brünn Congress of the All-Austrian Social Democratic Party (Gesamtpartei) in 1899, he held that Russia must be transformed into a multinational state where each nationality would be legally defined as the aggregate of its individual members (rather than on a territorial basis) and granted self-government on cultural matters, a concept later known as national-cultural autonomy. Mills efforts bore fruit at the partys Fourth Congress (Bialystok, May 1901) , when, after several years of heated debates, the autonomist proposal was accepted in principle. Until World War I, Mill lived mostly in Geneva and Paris, in dire poverty, and he continued to lead the Bunds Foreign Committee in Western Europe. In that capacity, he represented the Bund in the Socialist International and in the partys interactions with other socialist organizations. Following his emigration to the United States in 1915, Mill settled in Chicago and left active politics, but he remained close to Bundist circles and wrote extensively for Yiddish publications. He died in 1952. (YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Eruope) Subjects: Jews - Soviet Union - Societies, etc. Labor movement - Soviet Union - Societies, etc. Allgemeyner Idisher arbayterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland. Light wear to cloth, institutional stamps on outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (YID-19-32)
Original Paper Wrappers. 4to. 8 pages. 30cm. In Russian. Title translates to English as, "New Professional Leaflet." Free supplement to No. 6 "Nashaya Rabochaya Gazeta." CONTENTS: Obeditel'nyya Zadachi Soyuzov [The Unifying Goals of the Unions] --- Ekonomicheskaya Bor'ba i Soyuzy [Economic Struggle and the Unions] --- Znachenie Statistiki v Profession. O-vakh [The Value of Statistics in Professional Organizations] --- Professional'nye Soyuzy i Politicheskaya Partiya [Professional Unions and Political Parties]. No listings on OCLC. SUBJECTS: Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917 -- Periodicals. Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals. Socialism -- Periodicals. Pages darkened with some closed tears at the edges, but paper is not fragile. Good Condition. (RUS-11-38)
8vo; 299 pages; Index. Looks at the impact, manifestations, and changes in Trotsky's Jewishness and Jewish identity (or lack thereof) . Very Good in Good jacket with chips & closed tears (Comhist-2-4)
Spine repaired and rebound. 8vo. 355 pages. 23 cm. In Russian. Title translates to English as, "The Black Repartition: A Page From the History of the Society 'Land and Freedom' in the [18]70s." Series: "Pamyatniki Agiatatsionnoy Literatury [Monuments of Agitation Literature]". Foreword by Nevsky; introductory statement by Aptekman. Compilation of documents from the late 19th century populist movement. SUBJECTS: Socialism -- Russia -- History -- Sources. Socialism -- Periodicals. Chernyi? peredel (Political party: Russia) -- History -- Sources. Russia -- Politics and government -- 1855-1881 - Sources. Front end pages through page 2, 353-end missing; edges of first 15 pages with significant chipping but only minor loss of text to two pages. Otherwise Good Condition. (RUS-11-39)
FT) Original Newspaper. Folio. Most issues are 4 pages. In Russian. Title translates to English as, Labor Thought. Tagline across the top of early issues read: Proletarii Vsyekh Stran, Soedinyaites! [Proletariat of All Country, Unite! ]; later issues' tagline reads: Proletarii Vsyekh Stran, Ob'yedinyaytes'! [Proletariat of All Country, Unite! ]. Published in Dvinsk weekly on various days for issues 1-52; further issues published weekly on Sunday. The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party was founded on 17 June 1918, by the Menshevik elements who had been expelled from the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory in 1915. The leader of LSDSP, Pauls Kalnin, was the speaker of Latvian parliament from 1925 to 1934. The party itself, however, would often be in opposition because of many smaller right-wing parties forming coalition governments, typically led by the Latvian Farmers' Union. CONTENTS INCLUDES: (49) Protiv Landesvera! Protiv Reaktsii! [Opponent of Landeswehr! Opponent of Reaction! ] --- (53) Revolyutsionnost Poezii Rainisa [The Revolutionary Spirit of the Poetry of Rainis (Janis Plieksans) ] --- (80) Zabastovka v Dvinskikh zh. -d. Masterskikh [Strike in the Dvina Railroad Shops] --- Borba za Demokratizatsiyu Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedeniy [The Struggle for the Democratization of Institutes of Higher Education]. Pages darkened, chipping and closed tears along the edges, but no loss of text. Some staining. Good+ Condition. (RUS-11-41a)
Period boards. 8vo; 395 pages; In Yiddish. An important sourcebook. Spine has been repaired. Inner pages are in Very Good Condition. (YID-23-3)
Hinges starting, frontis plate loose (but present) , otherwise Good Conditio. N; 8vo; 329 pages; First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 329 pages, 20 cm. In English. Early reporting by Reed, part of the same reporting work that took him just a bit further east to report on Ten Days that Shook the World a year later. Includes tissued frontis plate, as well as 47 other single-sided illustrated plates. SUBJECTS: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. Very Good Condition. (KH-3-28)
Original Cloth. 8vo. 370 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition. Translation of Ten Days that Shook the World, the first-person chronicle of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century, by John Reed (1887-1920) . The translator, Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1878 1939) came to the United States in 1915, was a major contributor to the Forverts, and then was one of the founders of the Workers (Communist) Party in 1922. When the Jewish Socialist Federation split in 1921, Olgin severed his connections with the Forward. Later when the Federation united with the Communists, he was made one of the organizers of the Jewish section of the Party. He was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party for many years. Olgin was one of the founders of the Yiddish Daily Freiheit (now Morning Freiheit) and served as its editor up to the time of his death. Subjects: Soviet Union - History - Revolution, 1917-1921. October Revolution John Reed Yiddish translation. Front hinge starting, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (YID-19-66) xx
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 287, [7]; 300, [4] pages. 23 cm. First Yiddish edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Added Spanish title page: Juventud de un Rebelde; added English title page: Youth of a Rebel. Translated by Baruch Tshubinski from the original German manuscript; first published in Spanish translation in Buenos Aires in 1947. Two volume autobiography of the early years of Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) : The story of Rudolf Rocker is the combined tale of a life and a social movement - a life that reflects with amazing accuracy the development of the anarchist movement and its various nuances. Rocker witnessed anarchism at its height, but he also saw its decline, and ultimate disintegration. During his long years of activity within the ranks of the anarchist movement, Rocker took part in the major stages of its history, from the birth of anarchism in post-Bismarck Germany, through the notorious phase of Propaganda by Deed in France and the London battles against the sweating system, until the last cause - the Spanish Civil War. A gentile who taught himself Yiddish and Jewish culture, Rocker was for half-a-century the soul of the Jewish anarchist movement, a spiritual teacher, a philosopher, and a preacher. He was the anarchist rabbi, a man who not only talks but also acts on his beliefs. Rocker was the father of the anarcho-syndicalist trend, and his major philosophical contribution, Nationalism and Culture, constitutes to this day one of the most serious attempts to analyze critically the emergence of nationalism, and its relationship to the political state and western civilization. (Mina Graur, An Anarchist Rabbi: The Life and Teachings of Rudolf Rocker) Subjects: Jewish radicals - Germany - Biography. Jewish anarchists - Germany - Biography. Anarchism - Germany. Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958. Yiddish Anarchism - Buenos Aires. OCLC lists 18 copies. Light wear to backstrip, otherwise fresh. Very good + condition. (YID-20-7)
16mo. 80 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language; Medicine religious aspects. OCLC lists two copies worldwide (Northern Michigan Univ. , Kent State) . Stain on front and back cover, spine a little worn. Very good condition. (FIN-1-39)
16mo. 448 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language; Bible. N. T. Pastoral Epistles Commentaries. OCLC lists three copies worldwide (Helsinki Univ. , Kent State, Concordia Theological Seminary) . Water damage, front hinge broken, fly leaf chipped. Gold lettering on cover. Good condition. (FIN-1-51)
12mo. 127 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language. OCLC lists seven copies worldwide. Very good condition; wear on spine. (FIN-1-53) xxxx
Original Cloth. 8vo. 472 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Title page verso: Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter. A biography of the life, struggles, and martyrdom of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, with large selections from their writings. Commemoration book for the leading Bund activists in interwar Poland; they were both arrested by the soviets during the Hitler-Stalin partition of Poland, both were released from prison for a time, and helped found the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee, but were then rearrested and died in soviet prisons. The editor Viktor Shulman (1876-1951) was also a leading Bund activist, and was editor of the Jewish Socialist daily newspaper "Volkszeitung. " Subjects: Political prisoners - Soviet Union - Biography. Jewish socialists - Poland. Allgemeyner Idisher arbeyterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland Politique internationale. Juifs. Production intellectuelle. Yiddish. Erlich, Henryk, 1882-1941. Alter, Victor, 1890-1941. Light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-19-31)
12mo. 226 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language; Agriculture economic aspects United States; Agriculture United States; Agricultural laborers United States. OCLC lists three copies worldwide (Northern Michigan Univ. , Minnesota Historical Society, Kent State) . Hinges loose, slight wear on covers, Finnish Socialist Organization stamp; good condition. (FIN-1-20)
12mo. 261 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language; Fiction. OCLC lists six copies worldwide. Fair condition, covers stained, back and spine covers torn, bottom half of page 99/100 leaf cut out, lost text present in facsimile. Text otherwise good. (FIN-1-21)
12mo. 261 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language; Fiction. OCLC lists six copies worldwide. Good condition; spots of covers, front hinge loose. (FIN-1-65)
Original Cloth. 8vo. 194 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Memories of the Yiddish Workers Movement. The memoir of a bundist through revolutionary adventures from Vitebsk in 1891 to the United States in 1930. Subjects: Jewish radicals - Biography. Jewish socialists - Biography. Jews - Employment. Allgemeyner Idisher arbeyterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland. Light wear to corners, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-19-29)
FT) Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Aprox 125 pages. 23cm. In Serbian (Cyrillic script) . Title translates to English as, Russian Archives: Journal of Politics, Culture and Economy of Russia. SUBJECTS: Russian literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals. Soviet Union -- Periodicals. Russians -- Serbia -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals. CONTENTS: Mozhe li Sud o Savremenoj Rusiji Biti Objektivan [Can the Court of Contemporary Russia be Objective? ] --- Zakon I Zakonitost u SSSR [Law and Legality in the USSR] --- Konstrukcija Sovjetskog Plana [The Soviet Design Plan] --- Strane Koncesije u SSSR [Foreign Concessions to the USSR] --- Kriza Nove Ekonomske Politike [Crisis of the New Economic Policy]. OCLC lists 19 copies. Covers chipping slightly at edges with minor staining. Internal pages clean and uncut. Good+ Condition. (RUS-11-27)
FT) Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 433-588 (ie. 155) pages. 18 cm. In Russian. Title translates to English as, Free Russia: Republican-Democratic Organ. CONTENTS: Ob Intelligentsii v Rossii [About the Intelligentsia in Russia] --- Problema Russkogo Dolga vo Frantsii [The Problem of Russian Debt to France] --- Kommunisticheskaya Partiya v Soed. Shtatakh Ameriki [Communist Party in the United States of America] --- Kak Konchaetsya Bolshevizm [How to End Bolshevism] --- Tsarstvo Terrora v 1924 godu [Tsarist Terror in 1924] --- Polozhenie Tserkvi v Rossii [The Position of the Church in Russia]. OCLC lists 17 holdings. Volume VII chipping at edges with some loss of paper, but all text is clear. Fair Condition. Volume VIII is nice and clean. Very Good Condition. (RUS-11-21A)
16mo. 61 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (Helsinki Univ. ) . Good condition; some marks. (FIN-1-35) xxxx
16mo. 122, vi pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language. Thompson (b. 1870) was a graduate of Gates College, Chicago Theological Seminary, and Chicago University, and was also a Congregational minister. He was a city clerk in Milwaukee, and director of the Socialist Party's Information and Research Department. (de Leon, 1925) OCLC lists two copies worldwide (Helsinki Univ. , Lakehead Univ. ) . Fair condition; various marks and tears. (FIN-1-37) xxx
16mo. 56 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish language. SERIES: Työläisen tietokirjasto ; ; 3; . OCLC lists one copy worldwide (Helsinki Univ. ) . Former owners note inside front cover, edges foxed, small tear at bottom of spine, spine has 94 written on it, title page is wrinkled. Very good condition. (FIN-1-33)
