Publishers cloth. 4to. LI, 303 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Yidishe Gelt, "Jewish Money, " a Yiddish lexicological study on money in Jewish folkways, cultural history, and folklore; organized alphabetically according to prefix (tog-gelt; ploger-gelt, etc. ) , encompassing 674 entries; with illustrations throughout, and choice anecdotes in English and German as well; includes copious citations from Yiddish literature. The author, Isaac Rivkind (1895–1968) , was a “librarian and scholar. Rivkind was born in Lodz, Poland, and studied at the yeshivot of Volozhin and Ponevezh. During World War I and after he helped organize the Mizrachi movement of Poland. In 1917 he founded the ? E'irei Mizrachi in Lodz and in 1919–20 was a member of the Jewish National Council of Poland. In 1920 he was a delegate to the London Zionist Conference and from there proceeded to the U. S. To work on behalf of Mizrachi. In 1923 he began to work in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, eventually becoming chief of the Hebraica section. He was a co-founder of the U. S. Branch of the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) ; on the executive of the Hebrew PEN Club of the U. S. A. ; and a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. During World War II and in the immediate postwar years he was the national chairman in the U. S. Of the League for Religious Labor in Palestine. Rivkind was the author of significant studies and essays in many fields, notably in Jewish bibliography, ethnography and folklore, Yiddish philology, and Zionism. ” (EJ 2008) . Bound in blue cloth with gilt title, yellow book-ribbon sewn in. Subjects: Money - Folklore. Jews - Folklore. Lexicology. Yiddish Literature. Previous owners signature on endpage (David Kranzler, holocaust historian) , with hundreds of blank post it notes affixed in margins; first hinge starting, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (BIBLIOG-33-42A), Kra 1/13