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1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 38 pages. Published the year that Hitler became Chancellor, the author demands action by the League of Nations to protect Jews in Germany. "The first part of this paper is a discussion of the bases of a Petition to the League of Nations in behalf of the Jews in Germany. The second part outlines an International Convention to outlaw acts of injustice against Minority groups. " (inside front cover) . Contains chapters on The League and Minority Rights, The League and the Jewish Minority, The Bases of a Petition, A convention to Outlaw Minority Wrongs, The Effectiveness of Treaties and Conventions, and an introduction outlining possible outcomes of the precarious situation as well as the possible actions undertaken by the League of Nations. "Goldstein's research has focused on population distribution, urbanization and internal migration, especially in Southeast Asia and China and in relation to Jewish demography. According to the Population Association of America, Goldstein is âinternationally recognized for his long-standing and fundamental contributions to the study of urbanization and population mobility. He contributed significantly to the field with the development of the concept of repeat migration ... [and] pioneered new techniques for the collection and recording of demographic data, including the use of administrative and other records to complement surveys. Â" (wikipedia) Subjects: Minorities. Jews -- Persecutions. Germany. League of Nations. OCLC: 12350076. Minor edgewear to covers, otherwise a, clean copy. Very Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-144-30-ABFNII)
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 370 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era report from this gathering of Yiddish Intellectuals in Paris 3 years before its takeover by Nazi Germany. Title translates to First Congress of the Yiddish Culture Congress, Paris 17-21, Sept. 1937: Stenographers Report. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Ex-library with usual markings. Light damp stains. Good Condition. (YID-40-45-L-'x)
1st Edition. 4to. Later Blue Boards with Original Wrappers bound inside for each issue. A full run of the first 3 years of The Jewish Tribune, from the year 1933 to 1936. 36 issues in total running about 1100 pages. Note that though these are consecutive they are marked as Volumes 1, 2, and 6. Includes a 1934 article titled, The Holocaust in Germany, " an EXTREMELY early use of this term to describe the growing attacks on the Jews of Germany by the Nazis. This rare run of the first three years of Bombays first Zionist periodical is inscribed by Joseph Sargon, who worked as managing editor of the Jewish Tribune during the publication of these issues. Born and educated in Bombay, Mr. Sargon came to the United States in 1939 (land lived in Brookline) after serving as managing editor of the Bombay Jewish Tribune for 13 years. During his world travels, he interviewed and wrote articles about Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and other figures. (Boston Globe, 1990) The Bombay Tribune was established by the nephews of Nissim Elias Benjamin Ezra. N. E. B. Ezra, was a Baghdadi Jewish publisher and Zionist based in Shanghai. He founded the Shanghai Zionist Association in 1903 and its official newspaper, Israel's Messenger, one of China's oldest and most sophisticated Jewish periodicals Influenced by Ezra, his nephews started the newspaper Jewish Tribune in Bombay, India. (Wikipeida, 2017) These 36 issues of the Tribune include the 1st appearance of many articles and editorials from some of the leading Jewish thinkers from across the world including: NEB Ezra, Bernard S. Deutsch, Rabbi Julius J. Price, Haham Moses Gaster, Emanuel Neumann, Israel Cohen, Khan Bahadur Jackson B. Israel, Jl Magnes, Samuel Magnus, David Sassoon, Rabbi Leo Jung, Jl Landau, Rabbi Schlesinger, Laszlo Schwartz, Louis Golding, Jh Hertz (Then Chief Rabbi Of British Empire) , Jacob De Haas, Rabbi D. De Sola Pool, Edward Jacobs, Mrs. Israel Davidson, Lily Tobias, H. Pereira Mendez, Rabbi Benjamin Ouziel, and Cyrus Adler. Includes a few early reporting articles about Nazi Anti-Semitism, early reporting on the 1934 Nepal-Bihar Earthquake, and a few articles about Mahatma Gandhi, among other topics of Jewish and Zionist interest. Period Advertisements throughout. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and Usual Markings. Inscribed by Sargon on the Front-End Page. Also includes Sargons Personal Bookplate/Nametag. Damp Stains throughout and pages are wavy. Some edgewear. Overall in good condition. (SEF-55-8B)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 135 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. 'By Fire and Blood; Ghetto Pages'. Includes numerous firsthand reports from members of the Jewish National Committee in Warsaw, some with author attributions, of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the organizations involved, etc. With firsthand account, 'A year in Treblinka'. Published by the Representatives of Polish Jewry in America. 'November 1944'. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 - Poland - Warsaw. Poland - History - German Occupation 1939 - 1945. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland. OCLC lists 24 copies. Bit of wear to wraps, otherwise nice. About Very good- condition. (HOLO2-118-4a) xx
1st Japanese Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. Volume 1: 209 pages ; 19 cm. IN Japanese. Smuggled out of the ghetto and carefully preserved in a kerosene can on a farm outside Warsaw, Chaim Kaplans diary, originally recorded in beautiful, disciplined Hebrew script, is a detailed eyewitness report of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and a unique account of the destruction of the Jewish communities of Poland. Scroll of Agony begins on September 1, 1939, as the author, a respected educator, describes the Nazi blitzkrieg that stunned the world. It ends in August 1942, when Kaplan realized that the Nazi noose was around his neck. Kaplans remarkably objective account of the politics of occupation depicts a world of starvation and forced labor, of capricious death and planned mass murder. Yet his orderly script also conveys a world in which the struggle for survival included spiritual resistance: conducting services behind drawn shades, struggling to keep the schools open, and holding on to the rich fabric of communal life in defiance of the strongest force of dehumanization that the world has ever seen. (US Holocaust Museum Library) OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (U Illinois, Waseda Univ. Library, National Diet Library) . Very good+ condition. (holo2-131-7)
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Boards depicting a devil holding the world with a Nazi-flag. 8vo. 525 pages ; 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates into Englihs as, Thus It Began: A Novel in Five Parts An early post-war novel about the Holocaust from Mosheh Kats (1885-1960) . OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and usual markings. Spine is missing. Boards and paper show toning. Overall about very good condition. (holo2-135-55)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 40 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Holocaust-era imprint. Foreword by Judge Louise E. Levinthal. The four essays contained in this booklet were presented at a special session of the Forty-fifth Annual Convention of the Zionist Organisation of America on October 15, 1942. Each author is a distinguished rabbi in American Israel. - p. 5. Essays include 'Substance and Spirit' by David de Sola Pool, 'Zionism A Religious Duty' by Felix A. Levy, 'The Religious Character of Jewish Nationalism' by Joseph H. Lookstein, 'The Religious Spirit' by Louis Levitsky. Subjects: Zionism. Judaism. OCLC lists 15 copies. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean. Very good condition. (ZION-7-1A)
Cloth; 8vo. 110 pages. First edition. In German. Title translates as, Jewish World Finance? Interwar Jewish response to the accusation of Jewish control of the world financial system. Lewinsohn was a German journalist who wrote often under the alias "Morus. " Bibliographical annotations. SUBJECT (S) : Industries -- History. Jewish question. OCLC lists 22 copies worldwide. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. Ex-library with minimal markings. Bound in contemporary marbled boards, preserving original cover. Some stains on end pages of original book, text not effected, else Good Condition (GER-9-10B) xx
1st edition. Softcover, 32 pages, 8vo, 22 cm. "Including the Report of the High Commissioner Mr. James G. McDonald and the Concluding Remarks of the Chairman the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, K.C." SUBJECT (S) : Political refugees. Jews -- Germany. Jewish refugees. Cover title. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Light wear, Very good condition. (Holo2-22-27A)
1st Edition. Original CCloth. 4to. 36 Sermons (about 250 pages) ; 28 cm. In English. Holocaust-era collection of sermons, includes The Courage to Carry On. Typed and bound manuscript. Newman was a Reform rabbi and a leader of the Zioninst Revisionists in the United States (Goodman, EJ) He played a pivotal role in the creation of Brandeis University. SUBJECT(S) : American Jewish Sermons. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Cover is worn, with some water damage. One page folded, but inside pages are largely clear and very readable. Good condition. (AMRN-9-21a)
1st edition, original wrappers, 62 pages. In Yiddish, back cover in English. Title translates as, Zionism and Yiddishkayt in Soviet Russia: A Trip Across the Soviet Union in 1940.Holocaust-era Zionist eye-witness account of Jewry in the USSR during 1940, with an introduction by Rabbi Meyer Berlin, or Meir Bar-Ilan. Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in the United States and the British Mandate of Palestine. He inspired the founding of Bar Ilan University in Israel which is named for him. (wikipedia 2018) Heri Karp Ondenk Bibliotek Populere Broshurn-Num. 4-5. SUBJECT(S) : Zionism. Travel. Zionism. Soviet Union -- Description and travel. OCLC: 1011223445, OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Cover is wavy from moisture, rubbed and has some pencil markings, ex library sticker inside cover and blind stamp on title page. Internally very good. Good Condition overall. (HOLO2-141-32)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers bound inside Period Boards. 8vo. [2] , 29 pages ; 23 cm. In French. Very important period anti-racist imprint. Title Translates into English as, Judaism as a Race and a Religion; From the Conference At The Circle Of Saint-Simon, On 27 January 1883. Joseph Ernest Renan (1823 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology) , philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate . In his 1883 lecture Le Judaïsme comme race et comme Religion he disputed the concept that Jewish people constitute a unified racial entity in a biological sense, which made his views unpalatable within racial antisemitism. Renan was also known for being a strong critic of German ethnic nationalism, with its antisemitic undertones. (Wikipedia, 2016) A very clean first edition copy of Renans 1883 lecture. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism. Jewish Institutional Bookplate and Usual Markings. A few markings throughout. Overall little wear and in very good+ condition. (FR-2-18)
1st separate edition, original wrappers, 8vo. 13 pages. Reprint from the Israel law review, vol. 7, no. 1, January 1972. The author, Jacob Robinson (18891977) , was a jurist, politician, diplomat, and Holocaust researcher . After official Jewish representation was prohibited in Lithuania in 1927, Robinson organized an informal, secret group to defend Jewish interests. With the outbreak of World War II and the incorporation of Vilna into Lithuania, this committee played a leading role in receiving Jewish refugees from Poland and integrating Vilnas Jewish population into Lithuania. Robinson left Lithuania in May 1940 and reached the United States with his family in December of that year. In February 1941, he founded the Institute of Jewish Affairs (IJA) , the research arm of the American and World Jewish Congress, which he directed until 1947. The IJAs main topics of research were the fate of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe; the question of reparation and indemnification; the legal basis for prosecuting Nazi criminals; and the promotion of the concept of human rights as a means for defending the rights of Jews. In 1945, Robinson advised U. S. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson in Nuremberg and codrafted the Jewish case presented to the International Military Tribunal. In 1946, he counseled chief prosecutor Telford Taylor on the Flick Case in Nuremberg. That same year, Robinson worked for the United Nations as an expert consultant to the team creating and establishing the Commission of Human Rights. In 1947 Robinson became legal adviser to the Jewish Agency at the UN and from 1948 to 1957 he was legal counsel to Israels delegation. Thanks to his previous experience, Robinson was instrumental in developing the Israeli diplomatic service. In 1952, he drafted the reparations agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) . His brother Nehemiah (18981964) was also a brilliant lawyer. He was Jacobs close partner and successor as director of the IJA, and drafted the agreements between the FRG and the Claims Conference as well as the FRGs Indemnification Law. In 1957, Robinson became the legal adviser for the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, helped establish the research branch of Yad Vashem, and coordinated Holocaust research between several research Institutes (among them YIVO, Yad Vashem, Leo Baeck Institute, Wiener Library, and the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine) . Robinson also coordinated the collaboration of these and other Jewish institutions with the prosecution in trials against Nazi criminals. He was also the legal mind behind the prosecution at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem (19601961) , serving as special assistant to the attorney general. Robinson edited the Holocaust section for the Encyclopedia Judaica (1971) and several volumes of documentary sources of the Holocaust. He also published several important bibliographic works on international law (YIVO, 2018) . SUBJECT(S) : Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) OCLC: 45460076, OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide: US Holocaust Memorial Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Inscribed by author on cover, light toning on cover edges, else Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-140-2)
Original cloth boards. 12mo. 102 pages, 24 cm. In German. Holocaust-era imprint. Inscrbed "In deepest reverance" by the author in English on title page. Title translates roughly to Praying Judaism. Rabbi Davin Schoenberger performed the marriage of Anne Franks parents and later fled Nazi Germany...It was while serving as chief rabbi of Aachen, Germany, from 1926 to 1938 that Rabbi Schoenberger married the parents of the Jewish teen-ager whose wartime diary was later read around the world. The Schoenbergers and their daughter fled Europe after their synagogue was burned to the ground on Kristallnacht, Nov, 9, 1938, when Government-incited mobs attacked Jews and Jewish institutions and properties. (NYT Dec. 10, 1989) . This book was published that same year. Part of the Series: Sammlung Jüdischer Wissen, Band II. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism, Liturgy. OCLC lists 17 holdings worldwide. Staining to boards, including some on inside of front board. Internally clean, Good Condition overall. (GER-52-4A)
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 inside new boards and protective plastic. 8vo. 63 pages ; 22 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, The Tenets of Neugermanischen Judeophobia with Special Reference to W. [Wilhelm] Marrs Writings Historically and Factually Lit by Ludwig Stern. Stern was a German Talmudic scholar, teacher, author, and contemporary of Wilhelm Marr, who published this work in the same year as Marrs infamous pamphlet, Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1879) . Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) , a radical agitator, had been on the left wing in the 48 revolutions; he later popularized the term anti-semitism. In Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum, he introduced the idea that Germans and Jews were locked in a longstanding conflict, the origins of which he attributed to race, argued that Jewish emancipation resulting from German liberalism had allowed the Jews to control German finance and industry, and called for the expulsion of Jews from Germany. Marr later renounced anti-semitism at the end of his life, and declared himself as originally a 'philo-semite', undoubtedly under the impact of the debates in the SPD. This work was published in the same year as The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide, and none outside of Europe. Water-damage throughout but text is very readable. Ex-Library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual markings. A few tears to paper wrappers. Good condition. Important. (holo2-131-26)
1st Edition. Later Boards. 8vo. 64 pages ; 23 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, On the Relation of Jews to the Christian States. Karl Streckfuß (1779 1844) was a German writer, translator and lawyer. He is the father of the writer Adolf Streckfuß (his) 1833 work about the relationship of the Jews to the Christian states published, which critically commented on legal equality for Jews, sparked controversy after having positive experiences in contact with Prussian Jews, Streckfuß later revised his views in a paper which he published ten years later under the same title. (Wikipedia, 2016) This is Streckfuss original commentary before revision. OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Instiutional Bookplate/Stamp and usual markings. Pages show some discoloration and foxing but overall this is a bright copy. A few pages torn with no text effected and a bit of edgewear throughout. Good+ condition. (GER-58-34)
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers. 4to. 60 and 76 pages, 28 cm. In Hebrew and English. Title translates to Polish Jews. Poylishe Iden ran from 1933-1944 and was published by the American Federation for Polish Jews. The federation was established in 1908 to assist the newly arrived Polish Jews of New York. They also coordinated relief efforts on behalf of Polish Jewry. (YIVO, 2018) . This issue highlights the groups political activity, relief activities, and more. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (OCLC: 145390394) . Some edge wear to wrappers, but pages clean. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-30-35)
Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 77 pages. 25 cm. In English. Originally published in the Journal of Central European Affairs and reprinted for private circulation in both German and English editions. Written while Europe was still reeling from WWII. Begins with the sentence Perhaps a more fitting title for this study would be Central Europe without Jews. Bernard Weinryb (19001982) was an "economic and social historian. Born in Turobin, Poland, Weinryb studied in Breslau at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the university, was librarian at the seminary in 193133, and worked on the editorial staff of the Encyclopaedia Judaica in Berlin and Zurich (193334) . In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine, where he lectured at the School of Social Work and School of Economics until 1939, when he moved to the US, where he taught and did research at a number of scholarly and governmental institutions. (EJ) SUBJECTS: Holocaust - European Jewry. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (NLI and HUC) . Pages are browning. Small chip to bottom right of cover wrapper. Overall in Good+ Condition. (HOLO2-131-16)
1st edition, original cloth with dust jacket, 8vo. 218 pages. 25 cm. "Joseph Albo on Free Choice discovers unsuspected philosophical originality in the interpretations of biblical narrative found in Joseph Albo's Book of Principles, one of the most popular Hebrew works in the corpus of medieval Jewish philosophy. Several of Albo's exegetical analyses focus on free choice, which emerges as a conceptual scheme throughout his work. An exploration of Albo's innovative homiletical interpretations of the binding of Isaac, the hardening of Pharaoh's heart, the Book of Job, and God's choice of Israel, reveals his view of free choice which was significant during a historical period of religious coercion. Albo's sole surviving responsum dealing with the case of the qatlanit further demonstrates his philosophical position. In this new book, Shira Weiss shows that in the medieval era in which Albo lived, free choice was an important topic, subject to vehement debate that has continued to be contested in modern philosophy" (abstract) SUBJECT(S) : Philosophy, Medieval. Free will and determinism -- Biblical teaching. Ju¨dische Philosophie. Rabbinismus. Willensfreiheit. Albo, Joseph. Sefer ? Ik? Arim. OCLC: 965617247. Like new, Very Good Condition. (AC-7-7)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 14 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 15th Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Elie Wiesel a year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to the US Military Academy, Weisel says, I shall always remember the day I was liberated by the American Army: April 11, 1945 I remember a black sergeant, huge, marvelous. I saw him cry, and I heard him curse; he saw the corpses, he saw the victims, he understood what no one would ever understand, that something had happened in history that had changed history, and in his helplessness, he simply cursed, and to me his curses became pure prayers OCLC lists just 3 copies worldwide (West Point, US Army War College, Texas A&M) . Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Very good+ Condition. Scarce and important. (HOLO2-130-55A)
Original Wraps. 4to. 39 pages. 27 cm. First edition. Early post-war statements submitted to the Paris Conference by the World Jewish Congress, Agudas Israel World Organisation, American Jewish Conference, American Jewish Committee, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Anglo-Jewish Association, Conseil Representatif des Juifs de France, Alliance Israelite Universelle, South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Amendments to the proposed peace treaties, urging inclusion of annexes to secure the rights of the Jewish population. - cf. P. 2. Contents: Memorandum on the treaty with Roumania - Memorandum on the treaty with Hungary - Memorandum on the treaty with Italy - Memorandum on the treaty with Bulgaria. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Peace proposals and settlements. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Reparations. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. Paris Peace Conference (1946) . OCLC lists 7 copies. In protective library folder, slight library stamp on pastedown, otherwise Very good condition. (ZION-6-34A)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 3rd Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and writer Herman Wouk. Wouk served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater of WWII. He addresses the west point graduates about The Meaning of Freedom, concluding, In the last five years, working on The Winds of War Ive spoken three times: to the Naval Academy, to the Naval War caollege, and now to the United States Military Academy. It isnt because Im a militarist. Im not intrigued by the romance of war. Let me make this plain to you. In my view war is a massive criminal absurdity I believe, heart and soul, that in days to come it will fade from the minds of men and nations as a possible way to behave. That is what Im trying to say in my books. OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (Westpoint) . This cannot have been well-received at West Point, and certainly would not have been a speech it would have wanted to promote or make readily available outside the academy. Ex-library with Jewish institutional stamp and usual markings. Some markings on cover and waterdamage to the top of the paper wrappers and first page. Text is not effected and is bright and clean. Overall in about very good condition. (SPEC-42-20A)
First Yiddish edition. Original, illustrated paper wrappers. 12mo. 72 pages. 14cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "The Wish Concert. " Stanislaw Wygodzki (1907-1992) was a Polish writer of Jewish origin. He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which Wygodzki was first interred in the Bedzin ghetto and later in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen. His health impacted by his experiences, Wygodzki did not resume publishing until 1947, becoming a successful writer and publishing poetry, short stories and one novel. Wygodzki, who lost his wife, daughter and parents in Auschwitz, was one of four winners of the 1969 "Remembrance Award", awarded annually by the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations for "excellence in literature on the Nazi atrocities against European Jewry". A communist in his youth who was briefly imprisoned in Poland as an adult for his communist activities, Wygodzki resettled in Israel in 1968 in response to antisemitism in the Communist Party in Poland. SUBJECTS: Yiddish Fiction. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Some browning to pages. Ex-library with no marks. Small, one inch tear where the front wrapper creased. (YID-27-11)
First Yiddish edition. Original, illustrated paper wrappers. 12mo. 72 pages. 14cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "The Wish Concert. " Stanislaw Wygodzki (1907-1992) was a Polish writer of Jewish origin. He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which Wygodzki was first interred in the Bedzin ghetto and later in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen. His health impacted by his experiences, Wygodzki did not resume publishing until 1947, becoming a successful writer and publishing poetry, short stories and one novel. Wygodzki, who lost his wife, daughter and parents in Auschwitz, was one of four winners of the 1969 "Remembrance Award", awarded annually by the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations for "excellence in literature on the Nazi atrocities against European Jewry". A communist in his youth who was briefly imprisoned in Poland as an adult for his communist activities, Wygodzki resettled in Israel in 1968 in response to antisemitism in the Communist Party in Poland. SUBJECTS: Yiddish Fiction. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Some browning to pages. Tape on spine with title, light wear otherwise Good Condition. (YID-27-11A)