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. 50 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – intellectual life; Congress for Jewish Culture. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (HEB-2-3)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 232 pages, 18 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “30 Years of Jewish Settlement in Argentina. ” First of two volume work on Argentina’s Jewish community. Alpersohn (1860–1947) was an Russian-Argentinian farmer and Jewish writer who emigrated to Argentina at 31. “From the very outset he wrote pamphlets in Yiddish under a pseudonym criticizing the ica administration. After 43 years in Mauricio, he began to spend winters in Buenos Aires but remained on his farm during the summer. Alpersohn was a prolific writer. In his three volumes of memoirs ("The ica and Its 30 Years of Colonization in Argentina") , novels, plays, stories, and newspaper articles, he described with much color the life of the Jewish farmers in the ica colonies. He is considered one of the outstanding Yiddish writers of Argentina” (EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide (OCLC 10635662) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- Argentina -- History. Damp stains, fading, and wear to boards. Spine tape repaired. All contents clear. Overall Fair Condition. (RAB-64-45)

Cloth, 8vo. , 315 pages, plus additional pages at back. . In Yiddish. Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Erem. Illustrated with photographs. SUBJECT (S) Descriptor: Labor unions -- Israel. Edgewear and tanning to book jacket. Very good condition in good jacket. (HOLO2-81-1)

Original Cloth. 4to. (Various paginations) . 27 cm. In German, with lyrics in Hebrew and Yiddish. Nazi-era imprint. Two volumes in one. Both volumes of the Judische Volks-Lieder contain original elaborately designed title pages, both bound together with new wraps, in English, titled 45 Jeiwsh Folk Songs, Berlin-Boston, Hatikwah. Some individual scores contain original title pages as well. 45 songs, chiefly for voice and piano (though some for cello and violin accompaniment as well) . At the time of publication, Janot S. Roskin was actively involved as a composer for the Jüdischen Kulturbünde. He founded the Hatikvah music company in 1921, and refounded the company in the United States in 1941, after his emigration. Band 1 contains: Der Fuhrmann: Volkslied - Abram, Abram: Gebetlied - A Heem, A Heem: Refrain eines litauischen Volksliedes - Licht-Bentschen: Gebetlied - Der Schikkur: humoristisches Volkslied - A Brivele der Mamen: Familienlied / Text von B. W. Ehrenkranz - Hamawdil: Gebetlied / Text und Melodie v. A. Goldfaden - Roszinkes mit Mandlen: Wiegenl. - Jankele gejt in Schul: Goluslied - Der Alef-Bees: Chederlied / Text und Melodie v. M. Warschawski - Kinder mir hoben Ssimches-Torje / Text und Melodie v. M. Warschawski - Dem Milners-Treren: Goluslied - Dos Tojrele: a. D. Operette Di jiddische Neschome / v. Feinmann - Dos Pekele: Goluslied / Melodie von S. Russota - Ein schönes Lied hab ich gesungen / Melodie von Janot S. Roskin - Klip-klap, effen mir! : Liebeslied. I. / Melodie von Janot S. Roskin - Sehnsucht nach Jeruscholajim: Goluslied - Di Zimbel: Goluslied / Text und Melodie von Eljakim Zunser - Der Seeger Die Uhr - Der Parom Die Fähre - Dos heelige Rikud'l: Chassidisches Tanzlied - L'chajim Rebbe: Chassidisches Lied - Unser Rebbenju: Chassidisches Lied - Jismach Mojsche: Chassidisches Lied - Omar Adojschem Lejankojw: Chassidisches Lied. Band 2 contains: Nationale Volkslieder. Htikwah "Die Hoffnung" ; Dort wo die Zeder "Bimkom Haeres" ; Al tal s'a matar ; Ja chay lili ha, amali ; do Lid fun Jeruscholajim - Humoristischer Volkslieder. Dire-Gelt ; Balebuste Leben ; A Geneeweh ; Der Rebbe hot gehessen Freelich sajn ; Wus wet sajn m'kejech Burikes - Schlof, schlof, schlof ; Schlof sche majn Feegele ; Dos Kind ligt in Wigele ; Schlof, majn Kind ; Kumt der liber Sumer - Mädchen- und Liebeslieder. Di Bajke ; Do solst nit geen mit kajn andere Meedelech ; Kezele jajns! Klip-klap, effen mir! - Hochzeits- und Familienlieder. A Muters-Freed ; Chazkele, chazkele ; Ich bin sech mir a Kale ; Ale Mentschen Tanzendik ; Lejg ich mayn Kepele ; Frajtog ojf der Nacht. Subjects: Songs with piano. Songs with instrumental ensemble. Folk songs, Yiddish - Germany. Jews - Germany – Music. OCLC lists 13 copies. Spine rebacked with old tape stains at spine. First few leaves aged; otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (GER-44-10)

(FT) Portfolio. 4to. [20] pages; [59] leaves. 28 cm. In Yiddish and English. Text and captions to plates in English and Yiddish. Yiddish title romanized: 59 [i. E. Nayn und fuftsig] ilustratsies tsu alle folkstimlikhe geshikhten fun Yitshak Leybush Perets. Porftolio contains a 20 page booklet, printed in red and black ink, and contains 59 illustrated leaves. “Bergner's style moves freely between extremes, from compact compositions and minimal coloration to richness and dramatic style. He always maintained a rare combination between figurative description and surrealistic atmosphere. At the heart of his approach lies the understanding that the visual image is a more or less aesthetic representation of the meaning beyond it. More then once Bergner has been defined as a literary painter, in his case meaning a painter who is as comfortable with world literature as he is familiar with Jewish literature. As the son of a Yiddish poet, the stories of Mendele Mokher Seforim (Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh ) , Shalom Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz were a part of his life. At the same time Bergner's art has been an inspiration to many Israeli poets like Dan Pagis, Tuvia Rivner, and Hayim Hefer. They were drawn to the characteristic images of Bergner's art, referring to them as an integral part of their poems. ” (EJ 2008) Subjects: Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 2-1915 - Illustrations. OCLC lists 24 copies. Light wear, and some chipping, to bottom and outer edges of portfolio, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (ART-20-25)

Compiled by Ephim H. Jeshurin. [Buenos Aires], 1964. 25 pages. Buenos Ayres 8vo, 25 pages. In Yiddish. Offprint from "Eybike vegn fun eybikn folk: eseyn, " (Buenos Ayres, 1964) . Very Good Condition. (CT-12)

Original wraps. 4to. 9, [1] pages. 27 cm. First edition. Lyrics in romanized Yiddish. Af Bri (Folk Song) ; by Lazar Weiner; Mixed chorus and piano accompaniment. C96; Metro. First line: Af bri, s'iz nito vos tsu gebn esen di kinder. Lazar Weiner(1897–1982) “After discovering the rich Yiddish cultural scene in early 20th-century New York City, Lazar Weiner went on to become a leading composer of Yiddish art songs and contemporary synagogue music, and a revered director of Yiddish choruses. ” (Milken Archive) Subjects: Songs, Yiddish. Folk Lament. OCLC lists three copies (Penn, Harvard, NYPL) . Light edge wear, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (MUSIC-3-49) Xxxx

1st edition. Original printed publisher’s color paper wrappers, 4to (large), ca 72-116 columns [ca 36-58 pages] per issue. In Yiddish. Title translates roughly as, “On the Language Front: A Journal for Yiddish Linguistics.” This bi-monthly journal succeeded the similar journal Di Yidishe Shprakh which had been “published in Kiev from 1927 to 1930. A bimonthly journal, Di yidishe shprakh (The Yiddish Language) was published by the cooperative publishing house Kultur-lige and was the main philological publication of the Kiev Yiddish academic center. Its editor was the veteran Yiddishist Nokhem Shtif, a founder of YIVO, who had returned to Kiev from Germany in 1926.….the last—twenty-fifth—issue of the journal was dated November–December 1930….Published under the imprint of the Central Publishing House, this issue also signaled the demise of the remaining vestiges of the Kiev Kultur-lige. Yoysef Liberberg’s article “Far parteyishkayt in der yidisher visnshaft-arbet” (For a Party Approach to Yiddish Linguistics) marked a full break with YIVO scholars, particularly with YIVO director Max Weinreich, whom Liberberg ridiculed for presenting Yiddish as an emanation of the Ashkenazic Jews’ soul. The Yiddish Language Conference decided to change the name of the journal. Between 1931 [sic 1932] and 1939, it appeared sporadically under the title Afn shprakhfront (On the Language Front), reflecting its new, more aggressive, and politically charged approach.” Nokhem Shtif, the editor, “became the central figure in the Kiev Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture, as it was called in 1929 (previously known as the Chair for Jewish Culture at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, from 1926). Concurrently, a professional philological journal, Di yidishe shprakh (The Yiddish Language; from 1931 called Afn shprakhfront [On the Language Front]), edited by Shtif, was also launched. For a short time, he directed the Kiev Institute, but later headed only its philological section; Yoysef Liberberg, a Communist Party member, replaced Shtif as director” (Gennady Estraikh in YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2010).For more, see: Gennady Estraikh, “Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development” (Oxford, 1999); and David Shneer, “Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture, 1918–1930” (Cambridge and New York, 2004).SUBJECT(S): Yiddish language -- Periodicals. OCLC: 36532974. Most holdings in OCLC appear to be fragmentary. Covers are browning and fragile as expected, but are otherwise very well preserved with very little edgewear. Internal text pages are also toning but remain relatively strong as pulp paper. Very important journal. (yid-43-6-E)

8vo. 347 pages. Maps on endpapers. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – colonization – Africa, East. Included index. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket. (MX-23-12)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 155 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German with some Hebrew. 'Agudas Yisroel'; Reports and materials. Compiled by the Provisorischen Comité der "Agudas Jisroel" zu Frankfurt a. M. Contents: Die Vorgeschichte der "Agudas Jisroel" by A. Weyl - Die Versammlung zu Frankfurt a. M. Am 29. Oktober 1911 (Protokoll) - Die Kattowitzer Konferenz am 27. Und 28. Mai 1912 (contains reports from the Conference, the Program of the Agudas Yisroel, etc. ) - Zustimmungskundgebungen zur Gründung der "Agudas Jisroel" - Auszüge aus Zustimmungsschreiben hervorragender Persönlichkeiten (in Hebrew) - Stimmen der Presse zur Gründung der "Agudas Jisroel. " This collection of reports can be assumed to be one of the earliest publications of the Agudat Yisroel after its founding. The Agudat Yisrael is a political movement of Orthodox Jewry, founded at a conference in Kattowitz (Upper Silesia; today Katowice, Poland) in May 1912. “The 300 delegates at the Kattowitz conference faced the complex and challenging task of overriding very real differences among traditional communities in Germany, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and elsewhere. The goal in forming Agudas Yisroel was to create an overarching, 'ecumenical' Orthodox identity to be shared by all these communities, represented by one organization. A compromise view prevailed, and individual communities were allowed to make their own decisions at local and regional levels. Though some steps were taken to set up a larger organization, including plans for establishing a world body of Agudas Yisroel to be called the Kenesiyah Gedolah (Great Assembly) , the outbreak of World War I made plans to convene such a conference in August 1914 impossible. Consequently, the first international assembly did not take place until 1923.” - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Orthodox Judaism - Congresses. Agudat Israel. OCLC lists 11 copies. Wraps heavily soiled, detached, with some chipping to edges. Pages aged, with minor chipping at top; otherwise fresh. Fair condition. (GER-43-13)

8vo. 583 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Studies in the literatures and languages of the Jews, short stories and translations from Yiddish poetry. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish literature - history and criticism; Yiddish literature - translations in Hebrew. Samuel Niger was the pseudonym of Samuel Charney (1883-1955) . A Zionist influenced by Adah Ha-Am and a Russian socialist revolutionary, he joined the Zionist-Socialist Workers Party, and was repeatedly arrested and tortured by Russian authorities. Though his first literary efforts were in Russian and Hebrew, his mature work was written mostly in Yiddish. After being imprisoned by Polish legionaires in 1919, Niger left for the United States. In New York, he worked for Der Tog, a Yiddish daily; beginning in 1920, he worked for the paper for 35 years, "becoming the most revered and feared Yiddish critic of his generation. " Outside of strictly literary work, Niger worked with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from its inception, a and helped found the Congress for Jewish Culture. (Liptzin, EJ) "Born in Chudnov, Volhynia (Russia) , Ribalow (1895-1953) received a yeshivah education and also studied at the University of Moscow; he emigrated to the United States in 1921. Two years later he was appointed editor of the Hebrew weekly Hadoar. For 30 years he wrote his weekly editorials under his pseudonym, M. Shoshani, and hundreds of essays which appeared in various periodicals and, eventually, were collected in five volumes. As an essayist he concentrated on literary criticism, especially of Hebrew poetry. Though his love for Hebrew sometimes led him to hyperbolic evaluations of Hebrew writers, he was a perceptive critic. Many Hebrew authors in the U. S. Made their debut under his guidance. Ribalow was a leader of Histadrut, an organization which propagates Hebrew culture in the United States. With Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi, he was co-president of the World Hebrew Union. "(EJ, Silberschlag) Ex library in library binding. Pages slightly water stained and wrinkled throughout, good condition. (HebLit-6-1)

(FT) Hardcover, small 8vo, 48 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. This is a tale about a young boy, the Rabbi's grandson, devoted to his mother. The boy's love, enormous intelligence and courage assisted him in his aspiration to make his beloved mother happy, save and reunite his family. Shloyme was raised by his grandparents. Accidently he found out that his real mother is alive, but so ugly that even her parents couldn't look at her. Her husband left her. Shloyme gladly accepted his mother, extremely kind, smart and educated woman, and decided to undertake a long and difficult trip in search of his father. Oy, such a Jewish story. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- children ---- fiction. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Spine repaired, covers bumped, internal pages clean, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-26) xx

Original boards. 8vo. 179 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Alexander and Diogenes: A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts and Two Images. ” Inscribed by the author to the previous owner. The title references the meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great. “David Pinski (1872–1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution, Pinski was the first to introduce to its stage a drama about urban Jewish workers; a dramatist of ideas, he was notable also for writing about human sexuality with a frankness previously unknown to Yiddish literature. ” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. (OCLC: 7404987) . Ex-library with usual markings. Overall Good- Condition. (YID-40-52-LX)

1st English Edition. Original Boards. [10], 151, [1] pages ; 20 cm. In English. From the American Jewish Chronicle Series. “Sholem Asch (1880 – 1957) , was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language that settled in the United States… A celebrated writer in his own lifetime, a 12-volume set of his collected works was published in the early 1920s. In 1932 he was awarded the Polish Republic's Polonia Restituta decoration and was elected honorary president of the Yiddish PEN Club. ” (Wikipeida, 2016) One of the first SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- United States -- Fiction. OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide. Ex-libarary with Jewish Insitutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Some edgewear but overall about very good condition. (AMR-48-24)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 412 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Once and For All: From the Last Years of the Last Century to the Last Twenty Years of the Present Century.” Isidore Kopeloff (1859-1933) was a Yiddish writer. Kopeloff moved from Babroisk to the U.S. in 1881 and was active in socialist and anarchist circles. Many of his works focused on life in the old country. SUBJECTS: Yiddish (JTA, 1933). SUBJECTS: Yiddish nonfiction. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide (OCLC: 17064491). Cloth lightly worn. Spine repaired. Overall good condition. (YID-33-6-LX+-’e)

Original Wraps. 8vo. [163-168] (ie. 6) pages. 25 cm. Offprint. “Anatomy of a Stereotype, ” in New German Critique, 42, Fall 1987. Review by George Mosse of 'Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness' by Sander L. Gilman and 'Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews' by Sander L. Gilman. A short but concise review by Mosse concerning stereotypes and the latency of discrimination in society; on 'the medicalization of Jews' in Germany, German-Jewish consciousness, Yiddish, and the position of Jewishness in German stereotypes; also reviews as well Gilman's earlier work on insanity (Seeing the Insane) and iconography of insanity. With reference to early twentieth century German barracks language and anti-semitic motifs. Subjects: German-Jewish relations – stereotypes – discrimination. Anti-semitism. Anatomy – Gestures – Stereotypes. Very good condition. (MOSS-1-10) Xxxxx

First edition. Later boards with original paper wrappers bound in. 12mo. 70 pages; 18 cm. Yiddish with additional cover page in Russian or Ukrainian. Scarce Soviet-1920s publication on Antisemitism and Zionism, divided into 13 chapters. Title translates to “Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Nationalism. ” M. Kiper was the editor of ‘The Communist Path, ’ a Yiddish-language newspaper published during the Russian Civil War, and an author about Jewish life in Ukraine. SUBJECT (S) : Zionism, Pogroms, Anti-semitism. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide (GW Univ, Harvard, HUC) , none in New York. Browning and some pages stuck together. Library bookplate and some pencil markings. Minimal tearing. Good + condition. Scarce (zion-12-2) .

Original Wraps. 8vo. 48 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Workmen’s Circle School Almanac, celebrating the middle school graduating class of 1931. Issued by the Central Committee of New York Workmen’s Circle schools. Pages 28-48 contains advertisements and fraternal greetings to the graduating class from over a dozen locals of the I. L. G. W. U. And branches of the workmen’s circle. With articles on Literature in the Workmen’s Circle middle school; student essays on the history of the progressive movement in America, on Upton Sinclair and his works, a song, and on the relation between the workmens circle school and youth circles. Includes group photograph. Subjects: Jews - Education - United States. Workmen's Circle (U. S. ) . None on OCLC. Wraps bumped around edges, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (YID-18-31) Xx

Nyu York, Aron Kurts buch-Komitet, 1966. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, pages 373-379. "Separat opdruk aroysgegebn fun Aron Kurts buch-Komitet. " Offprint. Sketch of Kurts on cover. Primarily in Yiddish, non-Yiddish titles listed in their language of publication. Very Good Condition. (CT-12)

8vo. 258 pages. In Yiddish. Illustration plates. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Theater, Yiddish – Russia (Federation) – Moscow; Jews – Russia (Federation) – Moscow – intellectual life; Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi erveiskii teatr. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Good condition. (RAB-13-15)

1st Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. 336 pages ; 25 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Selected Writings On The Jewish Question. Part 1.” Includes only Volume 1 of 2. “Nathan Birnbaum (1864 – 1937) . (also known as ‘Mathias Acher’ and other pseudonyms) .. Was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: a Zionist phase (1883 – 1900) ; a Jewish cultural autonomy phase (1900 – 1914) which included the promotion of the Yiddish language; and religious phase (1914–1937) when he turned to Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly anti-Zionist…” (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Jews. Zionism. Spine is missing, and somewhat ironically the exposed binding shows a repurposed newspaper cartoon of Jewish men having an argument. Boards slightly worn. Includes full pages portrait of Birnbaum. A few markings throughout but overall about very good condition. (GER-59-30)

Original Cloth. 4to. 300, [13] pages. 26 cm. First edition. Volume two only: For the High Holidays. Title page and preface in English and Hebrew; contents in Hebrew. Unaccompanied melodies; words chiefly in romanized Hebrew. Chassidic melodies (pages 267-300) . Contains advertisements at rear (for Yiddish and Hebrew music booklets) . “Joshua Samuel Weisser was renowned in cantorial circles in America as a cantor, teacher, cantorial critic, and composer of traditional liturgical settings as well as recitatives for student cantors. … Weisser immigrated to the United States in 1914, where he proceeded to serve several New York synagogues and to establish a coveted reputation as a teacher of cantorial art—at a time when formal cantorial schools had yet to be established. … Weisser served as general secretary and, eventually, as president of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association (Hazzanim Farband) —the principal cantorial association at that time in the greater New York area … Weisser’s published recitatives and choral settings embrace virtually the entire liturgy of the annual cycle. He also notated Hassidic melodies, wrote original songs of Hassidic character, and composed Yiddish quasi-art songs—mostly in the style of elevated folksongs. He contributed articles about hazzanut and other aspects of Jewish music to various journals and periodicals, delivered papers at cantorial meetings, and, in a number of articles in Di khazonim velt [Di shul un di khazonim velt ]—an international cantorial newspaper published monthly in Warsaw from 1933 to 1939 but widely disseminated outside Poland—he reported on the state of cantorial art in America and on related professional matters and issues. ” (Milken Archive) Subjects: Synagogue music - Sabbath services. Synagogue music - High Holiday services. Hasidism – Music. OCLC lists 19 copies. Light wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-2-13)

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)

1st English Edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 186 pages ; 19 cm. “Bassen was (b) orn in Vasilkov, Ukraine. In July 1905 he emigrated to the United States and became a furrier. He published a drama, ‘Tsurik tsu zikh, drame fun idishn lebn in nyu york (New York, 1923) , ’ 186 pp. , which was translated into English as “Back to God: A Play of Jewish Life in New York. ” (Yiddish Leksikon, 2016) OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Small piece of spine missing. Hinges starting. Otherwise Very Good condition. (AMR-48-16A)

1st edition. Original Cloth Boards, 8vo, 574 pages [this volume], 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "By the Dnieper." Cover title for this volume [Vol I.] is “Bam Dnyeper (Penek)”. By the time David Bergelson arrived in Berlin in 1921, he was highly regarded as a Yiddish modernist innovator. In Berlin, Bergelson was the coeditor of a short-lived Yiddish and Hebrew modern art journal: in Yiddish, Milgroym (The Pomegranate). He wrote for the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Forward) and authored dozens of short works, some set in Berlin and others set in the shtetlekh of Ukraine….In 1926, Bergelson publicly shifted his allegiance toward the Soviet Union. To signal this new commitment, he cut ties with Forverts and became a regular staff writer for Morgen-frayhayt, a communist daily; he also visited Moscow, wrote a penitential letter to the Moscow Yiddish newspaper Der emes (The Truth), and penned his critical essay 'Dray tsentrn'('Three Centers'). In 'Three Centers,' Bergelson designated Moscow — not Warsaw or New York — as the well­spring of Yiddish literature.” By this time he “had earned him a reputation as one of Yiddish literature’s most important authors” (Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav in In Geveb, 2015).“ SUBJECT(S): Yiddish literature. Litte´rature yiddish. Russia. OCLC: 1987912. Paper Browning and somewhat fragile. Some wear to covers. Good Condition. Important 1st edition volume of this Soviet Yiddish imprint. (yid-43-1-'+)

1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers, with illustration on front cover. 8vo. 68 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Long author inscription on title page. Title translates as “The Little Fire. ” Holocaust-era publication. Moses Granitstein (1897-1956) was born in Kovel, Volhynia. “He studied in religious primary school and in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva. During WWI, he was evacuated with the community to Rostov-on-Don. He made his literary start in the weekly newspaper ‘Di Idishe Tribune’ (The Jewish tribune) , edited by L. Kestin, in Warsaw (1922) ; and he contributed to the weekly ‘Di Idishe Vokh’ (The Jewish week) , edited by M. Gotlib, in Rovno, and to ‘Voliner Gedank’ (Thoughts of Volhynia) , edited by Meyer-Yehude Rayz, in Lutsk. In 1927 he emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina … (where he) published poems, stories, and essays in ‘Di Prese’ (The press) , and from 1936 he worked on the editorial board of Di Prese and of the weekly Penemer un Penemlekh … in Buenos Aires” (yleksikon 2016) . OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide, none outside of United States. Some pages unopened. Chipping to wrappers. Some washout to author inscription. Internally good condition. (Latam-3-11)

Hardcover, 8vo, 398 pages, portraits. In Hebrew. Steinman (1892-1970) was a “Hebrew writer. Born in Obodovka, Steinman was ordained a rabbi, and began to write at an early age, but it took some time before his first stories appeared in print. Steinman pursued literary work and was also a part-time Hebrew teacher in Odessa. He contributed regularly to Ha-Zefirah and worked on translations, which were not published until a later date. During this period, he began to publish long stories, as well as essays and articles. In 1920 he left Russia. During those unsettled times, having been mistaken for the Yiddish writer Baynush Steinman, a rumor was spread of his death, and he was eulogized in the Hebrew daily press and in literary periodicals, as well as in foreign-language publications. Steinman published “Teshuvah le-Maspidai, ” in Ha-? Efirah. Settling in Warsaw, he continued his regular contributions of stories, essays, and articles to Ha-Zefirah and wrote for Der Moment. Steinman founded the monthly, Kolot, which provided a forum for young writers. It was also the first attempt to compare the thought of R. Na? Man of Bratslav and Aaron Samuel Tamares with those of St. Francis of Assisi, Ibsen, and others. During his Warsaw period he published a collection of stories, a novel, a collection of articles, and two Yiddish books of essays and stories on the pogroms against Ukrainian Jews…. In later years he also undertook a massive project designed to make the resources of Jewish culture more readily available by rendering the texts in his own version and adding his own introductory notes and essays. The first book, Be’er ha-Hasidut, was followed by a series of nine books on Hasidism and a collection of hasidic stories, Kankan ha-Kesef. He also wrote Be’er ha-Talmud, on the Talmud” (Kressel in EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (U of Manitoba) . Hinge repair. Chipping and wear to dust jacket, fragile. Bumped cover corners and edges. Otherwise, good condition. (Hasid-4-15)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 203 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Belsen concentration camp commemoration volume, with testimonies and memorial services held by Belsen survivors and soldiers of the Israeli army. A history of Belsen before and after liberation, with extensive documentation of the life and community of the DP camp established in Belsen - with chapters on the Yiddish theatre of Belsen, education, cultural activities, religious life, children brought into the world in the Belsen camp – the major emphasis is upon renewal of life. Profusely illustrated with 79 black and white photographs and four pages of maps (of Belsen Lager) at end. Subjects: Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Jews. Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) . Light edge wear, otherwise fine. Great condition. (HOLO2-104-8), biblio 02/13

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 203 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Belsen concentration camp commemoration volume, with testimonies and memorial services held by Belsen survivors and soldiers of the Israeli army. A history of Belsen before and after liberation, with extensive documentation of the life and community of the DP camp established in Belsen - with chapters on the Yiddish theatre of Belsen, education, cultural activities, religious life, children brought into the world in the Belsen camp – the major emphasis is upon renewal of life. Profusely illustrated with 79 black and white photographs and four pages of maps (of Belsen Lager) at end. Subjects: Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Jews. Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) . Light edge wear, otherwise fine. Great condition. (HOLO2-98-35), NYBC 02/13

First edition. Original stiff wrappers. 8vo. 67, [3] pages. 23 cm. A collection of 52 paintings and illustrations by the artist Benn; illustrated reproductions of his still lifes and portraitures printed in color and black and white; with an essay on the artist written by the film critic Joseph Marie Lo Duca (one of the cofounders of the French Nouvelle Vague journal Cahiers du Cinema) , printed with historiated initials. Benn “(Benzion Rabinovich; 1905–1989) , painter and graphic artist. Benn was born in Bialystok, Poland, and finished the Hebrew gymnasium there, where he later started his education in art at the private studios of local artists. He also studied at the Academy of Arts in Warsaw. He made his debut in 1927 with his first solo exhibition, shown first in Bialystok and then in Warsaw. During this period, he designed the typography for collections of Yiddish poetry. In Bialystok, his native town, he became a leading figure in local cultural life. He was among the founders of the modernist group ‘3F’ (‘Forma-Farba-Faktura’) , where most of the members were Jewish artists. In 1928, he organized the first Autumn Salon for Bialystok and Vilna artists. In 1926–29, he designed the scenery for the performances of several Yiddish theater companies in Bialystok. In 1929, the Bialystok municipality awarded him a scholarship for a trip to Paris. On the eve of his departure, Benn arranged a ‘farewell’ solo exhibition that was later shown in Warsaw with the assistance of the Jewish Society for Encouragement of Artists. In Paris, he studied with Fernand Leger. From 1932, Benn regularly exhibited in Paris art salons. His works were highly praised by critics and won public recognition. Six one-man shows in the 1930s at private art galleries in Paris are yet another indication of his success. During this period, he was also active in book design. During the German occupation of France, Benn went into hiding. However, not long before the end of the occupation, he was finally seized by the Gestapo and deported to the Drancy concentration camp. By sheer luck, he not only survived but also escaped further deportation to Auschwitz. In 1945, Benn returned to Paris. In the post-war years, having rejected the cubist and expressionistic techniques that had so strongly attracted him in the 1920s and 1930s, Benn crystallized his individual manner based on an organic combination of ‘metaphysical painting’ techniques and surrealism. From the 1950s through the 1970s, while mainly active in painting, he also engaged in book design and, among other works in this field, executed a series of illustrations for The Song of Songs (1950, 1974) and other books of the Bible (1948, 1954, 1971) , as well as for an edition of ‘Chad Gadya’ (1956) . In these years, he had numerous oneman shows in France and other West European countries as well as in Canada and Israel. ” (EJ 2007) Subjects: Artists - France. Bildband. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Backstrip repaired and covers browning. Internally Very Good. Good condition. (ART-18-11A)

(FT) Cloth with dustjacket, 8vo, 128 pages , illustrated, in Yiddish. Series: Kinder-ring bibliotek of the Workmen’s Circle. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- children ---- fiction. Edgewear and staining to cover, inner pages yellowed, dustjacket slightly worn, otherwise Very good condition (YIDCHI-5-14a)

1st edition. Original colorful printed avant-garde paper wrappers designed by Yosef Chaikov, 8vo, 199 pages; 23 cm. In Hebrew. A collection of poems and stories by Hebrew writers in the Soviet Union. Type-set in Leningrad, the work had to be printed in Berlin. The work was edited by Abraham Krivochko (A. Kariv) and includes a story by Isaac Babel. The brilliant front cover, which is featured on the home page of YIVO's Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (yivoencyclopedia.org), was created by Tchaikov bringing together a striking amalgam of Revolutionary ideas. The letters of the title are dramatic, symbolically beginning and ending with the color red. “The combination of colors and theatrical effects is striking…[the cover design] has the challenging element of a dramatic opening.” See Ch. Abramsky, “Yiddish Book Illustrations in Russia: 1916-1923” in Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution, p. 68. "The logo of the publishing house is illustrated by B. Shubin." The writers' group that published the book was unable to find a printing press in the Soviet Union prepared to print a Hebrew book, and the manuscript was therefore sent to Berlin for printing. Only a small portion of the printed copies were allowed into the Soviet Union. See Y"Y HaKohen, Pirsumim Yehudi'im B'Brit HaMoetzet, Jerusalem, 1961, p. 39-40. Interestingly, our copy includes a Russian-language price stamp on the inside rear cover (“50 Kop”) as well as a removed title page and one line of text excised from the half-title (“Permission Leningrad Gublita No. 11906”), perhaps all related to this copy being one that managed to be brought into the USSR?Joseph Moisevich Chaikov (also spelled, among other spellings, Tshaykov, Tchaikov, and Tchaikovsky; 1888 – 1979) was a “Russian Imperial and Soviet Russian sculptor, graphic designer and teacher of Ukrainian Jewish descent….Chaikov studied in Paris in the years 1910 through 1914. In 1912 he co-founded a group of young Jewish artists called Mahmad, and published a Hebrew-language magazine with that name; in 1913 he participated in the Salon d'Automne. He returned to Kiev in 1914. He was co-founder, along with El Lissitzky, Boris Aronson and others, of the Jewish socialist Kultur Lige in Kiev, led sculpture classes there, supervised a children's art studio and illustrated children's books, and in post-revolutionary Kiev focused on billboards and agitational propaganda. In 1921 he published the Yiddish-language book Skulptur, advocating avant-garde sculpture as a contribution to a new Jewish art. This book was also the first book on sculpture to be published in Yiddish. Chaikov moved to Moscow to teach at Vkhutemas from 1923 to 1930, alongside fellow sculptors Boris Korolev and Vera Mukhina. All three designed and taught cubist sculpture in the distinctively Russian Cubo-Futurism style, radically geometric and highly dynamic. From 1929 Chaikov was the head of the Society of Russian Sculptors. In 1932, after the end of the period of artistic freedom, all of these cubists turned back to Socialist Realism and produced more classically styled work. In the 1930s his work was prominently shown at the two Soviet world's fair pavilions, for the 1937 Paris Exposition and the 1939 New York World's Fair. His work in Paris was an extensive frieze of nine-foot figures, the People of the USSR, carved on two steles flanking the entrance to the pavilion. Fragments of the Paris work were unearthed in rural France in the 2000s, after having been presented to the French labor union after the fair, relocated to a holiday château, broken up by pro-Nazi youth during the occupation, and buried for 50 years. Chaikov continued to work in a variety of genres, techniques and scales. He was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1959, and his work is in the permanent collection of MOMA” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Hebrew literature, Modern -- Soviet Union. Litte´rature he´brai¨que -- URSS. Hebrew poetry -- Hebrew literature. OCLC: 15005057. Title page and one line of text from half title removed, as indicated above. Small number penned at base of spine. Light rubbing to cover with small stain in lower outer corner. Unobtrusive faint owner’s stamp in Hebrew on half title and blank front endpaper. Good condition thus; Book remains very striking and attractive. (YID-43-14-+-'e)

Original quarter leather. 4to. 844 pages. 26 cm. Title translates into English as "Bet Eked Books: Bibliographical Lexicon for the Knowledge of Hebrew Literature in General and the Names of Hebrew and Ashkenazi Jewish Literature." Three volumes (Aleph-Tav). Added title page in German and English: Bet Eked Sepharim: Bibliographical Lexicon of the whole Hebrew and Jewish-German Literature, inclusive of the Arabic, Greek, Italian, Persian, Samaritan, Spanish-Portuguese and Tartarian works, printed in the years 1475-1900 with Hebrew Letters'. Paged continuously. Issued in parts, 1928-31. Contains register of authors. Bernhard Friedberg (1876–1961) , “scholar and bibliographer... His greatest achievement was his bibliographical lexicon Beit Eked Sefarim” -EJ 2008. Subjects: Hebrew literature - Bibliography. Yiddish literature - Bibliography. Hebrew literature. Yiddish literature. Bibliography. OCLC lists 25 copies of first edition. Ex-library with usual markings. Spines have been repaired but are still fragile; otherwise internally fresh. Good + condition. (BIBLIOG-35-2A)

Long folio. 344 pages. In Spanish and Yiddish. This volume only. Complete as a bibliography of the Jewish labor movement in Argentina. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – Argentina – bibliography; Jews – education – bibliography – Argentina Jewish religious education – Argentina – bibliography. ISBN: 950-99149-0-8. Very good condition. (BIB-4-5)

Original Publisher’s Cloth. 4to. 2 vol. Xxiv, 306; x, 338 pages. 28 cm. In Yiddish with added introduction, geographical and subject index in English. Series: Joint Documentary Projects. Bibliographical Series, No. 9-10. CONTENTS: Countries and Communities – Refugees – Concentration Camps and Prisons – Biographical Information – Jews in the Armed Forces – Resistance – Underground Leaders, Fightersin the Ghettos and Concentration Camps, Partisans. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Bibliography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Bibliography. Some sunning to jackets. Nice, clean copies in very good condition with good jackets. (BIBLIOG-25-6)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 63, 7 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Bibliography of the writings of Elye Tsherikover (Elias Tcherikower; 1881–1943) , historian of Russian Jewish life and anti-Jewish violence, one of the founders of the YIVO. Annotated bibliography contains 465 items, principally in Yiddish and Russian. Housed in original publisher’s parcel, addressed from the YIVO Institute at West 123rd Street, addressed to Dr. J. Bloch of the New York Public Library. Subjects: Cherikover, I. M. , 1881-1943 - Bibliography. Housed in parcel; still new. Great condition. (BIBLIOG-36-31)

Varshe: Kultur-Lige, 1929. Paper Wrappers, 12mo. Semimonthly. In Yiddish. This periodical ran a total of 5 volumes: I (1922), II (1923) III (1924-1 issue only), 1928, & 1929. SUBJECT(S): Yiddish literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals. OCLC Number: 54241785. OCLC lists 12 holdings worldwide. Paper browning as generally found, covers are detached and chipped, spine largely absent, but usable. (YID-22-54)xx

Original Cloth. 8vo. 111 pages. 22 cm. First edition of author’s first book. In Yiddish. Bilder fun shtetl (Portraits of the Shtetl) . First published book of Tsadok Dolgopolski (1879–1959) , “Yiddish writer. Born into a poor family in Horodok, near Vitebsk, Tsadok Dolgopolski began working at a factory in Nevel while still young. In the late 1890s, he became an active member of the Bund and was imprisoned in Bialystok. Self-taught, he passed the qualifying examinations for teachers and organized a school for Jewish children in his hometown. By 1898, he was writing short articles on labor issues for illegal and legal Yiddish periodicals. In 1914, Boris Kletskin’s Vilna publishing house issued a collection of Dolgopolski’s works, mainly plays, called Bilder fun shtetl (Portraits of the Shtetl) . ” - Yivo Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews -- Europe, Eastern - Social life and customs - Drama; Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 8 copies. Pages lightly aged, light wear to edges of cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-21-25)

Nyu York: Arbeter ring bildung department, 1935. Cloth with illustrated paper panel on front, Square 8vo. 139 pages. In Yiddish. Sketches of the Life of Jewish Workers in America (on English title page) . SUBJECT(S) : Working class -- United States. Jews -- United States. With 11 beautiful 1930s woodcuts of proletarian scenes, plus other smaller drawings in the text, all by the talented Note Kozlovski, and color illusration on cover. OCLC lists 28 copies Worldwide. Some scratches on front illustration, otherwise very good condition. (YID-11-3)

First edition. Original Printed Wrappers, 8vo, 6, 8, 12, 32 pages ; 26 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “A Bouquet of Flowers: In Four Parts.” Singerman 4953. Contents: 1. “Ale Lider fun Akaydes Yitshak,” fun A. Goldfaden; 2. “Kupleten un Folks Lider,” fun M. Avramovits [Max Avramovich]; 3. “Ale Lider fun Kuzari,” fun Prof. Hurvits; & “Anekdoten,” fun G. Broyda. Abraham Goldfaden, (1840–1908), was a “Yiddish poet, dramatist, composer, and father of the Yiddish theater. Born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine, he received not only a thorough Hebrew education but also acquired a knowledge of Russian, German, and secular subjects. To avoid the draft, Goldfaden was sent to a government school at 15 and there came under the influence of his teacher Abraham Ber Gottlober, a Hebrew writer who was also a lover of Yiddish. Graduation from this school in 1857 permitted Goldfaden to enter the rabbinical seminary at Zhitomir, which trained rabbis, teachers, and Jewish officials for government service. Under the guidance of sympathetic teachers, including such leaders of the Haskalah movement as E. Z. Zweifel, H. S. Slonimsky, and Gottlober, he was encouraged to compose Hebrew lyrics. The first of these were published in 1862 in Ha-Meliz. A year later Goldfaden's first Yiddish poems appeared in Kol Mevasser. In 1865 Goldfaden published a booklet of his Hebrew songs Zizim u-Ferahim. In 1866, the year of his graduation as a teacher, his first collection of Yiddish songs Dos Yudele offered rich material for badhanim and folksingers. It was followed by a supplementary booklet Di Yudene (1869). In 1875 he joined a former classmate Isaac Joel Linetzki in founding and editing in Lemberg a short-lived humorous magazine Der Alter Yisrolik. Goldfaden then went to Rumania where he came in contact in Jassy with the Broder Singers, who were singing and acting out Yiddish songs, including his own, in wine cellars and restaurant gardens. He then conceived the idea that the dramatic effect of the songs and impersonations could be heightened if they would be combined with prose dialogues and woven into an interesting plot. He gathered a few singers and rehearsed with them scenarios composed by himself. The first performances in October 1876 initiated the professional Yiddish theater. Encouraged by the enthusiastic reception accorded his performances in Jassy, Goldfaden engaged wandering minstrels and cantors' assistants as additional actors, toured other Rumanian cities, including Bucharest, and then went to Odessa. By 1880 his troupe was giving performances throughout Russia and his phenomenal success was encouraging theatrical ventures by other enterprising actors and librettists. The Yiddish theater expanded and flourished until 1883, when the Russian government, fearing this new mass medium, banned performances in Yiddish. This action compelled authors, actors, and producers to migrate to other lands. Yiddish theaters were established in Paris, London, and New York. In 1887 Goldfaden was invited by some of his actors who had moved to New York to join them, but when he arrived he encountered severe competition from producers who had preceded him and from scriptwriters who were even more prolific than he. He found Europe more congenial and returned to produce and direct performances of his plays in London, Paris, and Lemberg. He returned to the United States in 1903 and spent his last five years in New York. Many of Goldfaden's 60 plays - not all of them published - continued to be adapted by actors and producers and entered into the permanent repertoire of the Yiddish theater. His characters from Schmendrik and Kuni Lemel to Hotzmakh, the good-natured peddler, and Bobbe Yakhne, the malevolent witch, have been real figures to several generations of theatergoers. (EJ, 2007).OCLC: 41454623. OCLC and Singerman together list 3 copies worldwide (Harvard, NYPL, NLI), with the NYPL copy described as “defective.” Scarce. Our copy: Paper brown, old damps stains, edgewear. Good- Condition. (YID-42-14)

Birobidzhan-Shtot [USSR], The Committee, 1974. Newspaper, Elephant Folio, 4 pages each issue. "Organ fonem Gegntlekhn Komitet fun der Komunistisher Partay fun Sovetntnforbond un fonem Gegentlekhn Sovet fun Deputatn fun di Arbetndike fun der Yidisher Avtonomer Gegnt. " Yiddish daily established in 1930 in the Jewish Autonomous region of the USSR. "Stalin's suppression of Yiddish culture in 1948-1952, however, stopped the production of Yiddish periodical literature [in the USSR] except in the Jewish Autonomous Region (Birobidzhan) , where the newspaper Birobidzhaner shtern (Birobidzhan Star) , which had begun publication in 1930, was able to continue" (Yivo, "Yiddish Newspapers and Periodicals, N. D. ) . No Copies listed on OCLC, and only 1 holding (Columbia) with microfilm (Y-35)

New York, Der Komitet, 1942. Paper Wrappers, 4to 8 pages. Published by the "World Organization of the "Bund" and Kindred Jewish Socialist Organizations. " This is not the monthly of the same name published beginning in 1960. Very scarce Bundist monthly from just after the war; interesting articles critiquing Zionism, the labor movement, Eastern Europe, the refugee crisis, etc. Even using alternate transliterated spellings, we were unable to locate copies of this periodical anywhere (OCLC, YIVO, Harvard, etc) . Presume not many issues published, perhaps none following these included here. Very Good+ Condition. Beautiful examples and very scarce. (Y-41)

8vo. 515 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Authors, Yiddish – biography; Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951. Cahan (1860-1951) was born near Vilna, in Lithuania. After the assassination of the Czar, he fled to the United States, where later lectured on Marxism, worker organization, and other political topics. He also founded and edited the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward, and also wrote well-received fiction. (myjewishlearning.com) Good condition. (HEB-3-8)

(FT) Paper Wraps. 8vo. 218 pages. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Table of Contents also in Polish. Title translates to English as: “Leaves of History. ” CONTENTS: “Zrodia hebrajskie do dziejow krajow slowianskich, ” T. Lewicki & F. Kupfer; “Miedzyrzec w okresie hitlerowskiej okupacji, ” H. Rylski; “Proletariat zydowski w rewoucji 1905 r, ” B. Mark; “Regulaminy dla ludnosci zydowskiej w miasteczk Lubartow w drugiej plowie XVIII wieku, ” J. Bartys; “Notatki z getta warszawskiego, ” M. Szwarcbard; “Materialy do badan nad demografia ludnosci zydowskiej w Warszawie w okresie hitlerowskiej okupacji, ” Z. Szymanski. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Periodicals. Joden. Geographic: Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Journal of the Yidisher hist? Orisher inst? It? Ut? In Poyln. INDEXES: Vols. 1-12, 1948-59, in v. 13. Small tear at bottom of backstrip. Slight discoloration at edge of pages, but all text is clear. Very Good condition. (HOLO2-31-25).

(FT) Paper Wraps. 8vo. 178 pages. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Table of Contents also in Polish. Title translates to English as: “Leaves of History. ” CONTENTS: “Z Ostatnich Notatek, ” E. Ringelblum; “Problem Habiru I Zdobycie Chanoan, ” M. Astur; “Staro-Izraelskie Zycie Rodzinne I Jego Spoleczno-Ekonomiczne Podstawy, ” E. Eisenstadt; “Do dziejow Zydow we Wschodniej Europie na Poczatku IV Wieku, ” B. Nadel; “Poczatki Prasy Zydowskiej w Rumunii a Walka o Emancypacje, ” M. Halevi; “Do Dziejow Historiografii Zydowskiej w Rumunii, ” L. Rosenblum; “Sz. Amsterdam, ” Sz. Zachariasz. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Periodicals. Joden. Geographic: Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Journal of the Yidisher hist? Orisher inst? It? Ut? In Poyln. INDEXES: Vols. 1-12, 1948-59, in v. 13. Backstrip torn slightly at bottom with tape. Backstrip lacking at top, but internal binding in good condition. Pages are slightly discolored at edges, but free of markings and all text is clear. Good condition. (HOLO2-31-28).

(FT) Paper Wraps. 8vo. 213 pages. Ill. 25 cm. In Yiddish; Summaries in Polish, and English, French, or Russian, 1948-52. Standard No: ISSN: 0006-470X; National Library: 100966491; LCCN: 74-648572 Title translates to English as: “Leaves of History. ” SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Periodicals. Joden. Geographic: Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Journal of the Yidisher historisher institut in Poyln. / Issued by the Yidisher historisher institut in Poyln. General Info: INDEXES: Vols. 1-12, 1948-59, in v. 13. (HOLO2-31-24)

Paper Wrappers, 8vo, ca. 175 pages each vol. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Some have summaries in Polish, and English, French, or Russian. Journal of the Yidisher historisher institut in Poyln. Issued by the Yidisher historisher institut in Poyln. Supersedes Yunger historiker. Originally began 1948. OCLC lists only 1 set worldwide. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- History -- Periodicals. Jews in Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Periodicals. Poland -- History -- Periodicals. Wear to wrappers, Good Condition. Some other issues may be available, please inquire. (H-41)

1st edition. Original, illustrated boards. 8vo. 275 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Blood from the Pulpit: A Novel On the Ukrainian Pogroms of 1919.” Features an intense illustrated cover portraying a Ukrainian soldier dangling a whip over a Jewish shtetl. The title is a blood red with the Yiddish vowel markings reminiscent of dripping blood. A novel about the anti-Jewish pogroms carried out by Ukrainian troops around Kiev. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Persecutions -- Ukraine -- Fiction. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide (OCLC: 10607709) . Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. Edge wear to boards and some pages. Damp Stains. Overall Good Condition. (YID-30-30)

1st edition. Original boards with gilt lettering. 8vo, 320 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Ber Borochov (1881-1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language. As an adult he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party but was expelled when he formed a Zionist Socialist Workers Union in Yekaterinoslav. Subsequently, he helped form the Poale Zion party and devoted his life to promoting the party in Russia, Europe, and America. When the Russian social democrats came to power, Borochov returned to Russia in March 1917 to lead Poale Zion. Borochov became highly influential in the Zionist movement because he explained nationalism in general, and Jewish Nationalism in particular in terms of Marxist class struggle and dialectical materialism. Borochov predicted, correctly, that nationalist forces would be more important in determining events than economic and class considerations, especially as concerned the Jews. Borochov argued that the class structure of European Jews resembled an inverted class pyramid where few Jews occupied the productive layers of society as workers. The Jews would migrate from country to country as they were forced out of their chosen professions by a stychic process which would ultimately force migration to Palestine, where they would form a proletarian basis in order to carry out Marxist class struggle. A key part of Borochovian ideology was that the Arab and Jewish working classes had a common proletarian interest and would participate in the class struggle together once Jews had returned to Palestine (Wikipedia 2015) . SUBJECT (S) : Labor Zionism - Nationalism. Very minor edgewear. Clean pages. Overall Very Good condition. (YID-30-1).

Cloth, 8vo. , 192 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – Biography. Other Titles: Builders and creators of my generation. Includes sections on 17 individuals who helped to create the State of Israel. With photographs. Published by Farlag “Wochenblat”. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (YID-17-5)

Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 290 pages. 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title on title page verso: "Boim zwischn chourwes." Holocaust-themed poetry. "A Tree in the Ruins: Poems", a collection of Holocaust poems, by Moses (Moyshe) Schulstein (1911-1981) , a Yiddish left wing poet from Poland, he survived the holocaust and moved to Paris; his famous poem "I Saw a Mountain" (found in this collection) is found on the wall of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Poetry. The US Holocaust Museum in Washington keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry. Heavy wear & dampstains to covers, stains to last few pages as well. But paper remains good, white and solid. Good- Condition. (H-41-12)

1st edition with this title. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 12mo, 158 pages. 19cm. In Yiddish. Cover and illustrations by A. Mintshin. Title translates as , "Burning Bridges: An Anthology of Revolutionary Lyrics in the New Yiddish Poetry of Ukraine. " Kathryn Hellerstein, in her "A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987" (Stanford, 2014) , makes many references to this work, noting in particular the illustrations: "The single illustration by Rybak for Korman's Brenendike brikn is the publisher's insignia on the first leaf of the volume: a black shield with the three-word name of the press curving across the top, center, and bottom of the shiel, in contrasting black and white letters, and a stylized folk motif of two gazelles or deer. One of the illustrations by A. Mintshin is on the cover of the softcover volume with images of three broken, weblike arched bridges floating through a whirlwind at upended angles; the title of the book in contrasting black-and-white letters; and the title and author's name in concentric curve at the bottom of the image. Mintshin also did the illustrations marking each of the three sections of poems in the anthology, which Korman calls 'cycles. ' The titles of the sections were taken from poem by David Hofshteyn; 'In veltn-konen, ' 'Infayerdikn doyer, ' and 'Rusland. ' Mintshin also designed the titles that mark the heading, 'Antologye, ' and the two tables of contents, 'Inhalt" (p. 442) . Including the cover, the work contains a total of 4 illustrations by Mintshin and one by Rybak. Includes indexes. "gezamlt un tsunoyfgeshtelt? Mit a forvort fun E. K? Orman. " Previously published under the title, "In Fayerdikn Doyer. " Paper is very fragile, with some chipping at margins. Lacks rear cover. Still dramatic. (yid-26-25)

1st edition. Later Cloth with covers bound in, Oblong 4to, Aproximately 100 leaves, mostly photographic plates. Includes 175 photographic illustrations. Introductory text and captions (many of Biblical origin) in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. “This album seeks to present a …picture of the wanderings of the 'remnants' of European Jewry - wanderings that began at the conclusion of the last war and still continue…” (From the introduction) . A collection of 175 black and white photographs documenting the “Bericha” - - the 'illegal' underground flight of surviving European Jews into Palestine immediately following the Holocaust. This was the great exodus of European Jews following the holocaust, who illegally crossed the borders of Soviet-occupied lands and made their way as illegal immigrants to the shores of Palestine. Special sections of this album are dedicated to children and orphans who took part in this immigration effort, and another section documents the famous journey of the ship Exodus. Compiled by Ephraim Dekel, a high-ranking Haganah officer and architect of the Bericha escape-route. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish refugees. Emigration and immigration. Jewish refugees. Berih? Ah (Organization) Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Pictorial works. Staining to first 10 leaves, heavy wear to original cover, which is bound in, but photographic and text pages are very good--clear, solid, and powerful. A Good Copy. (holo2-125-10)

1st edition. 4to, Original Paper Wrappers, 8 pages each issue, 13 numbers in 12 separate issues, as published. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Bulletin of the Bund.” Complete run of this early post-Holocaust iteration the Bund’s monthly newsletter (also serving “Kindred Jewish Socilaist Organizations”), reflecting the concerns of it’s membership of secular Polish Holocaust survivors as well as pre-war immigrants to the US. Full of interesting articles including: Reports and declarations from the World Bund Conference in Brussels, including declarations on Antisemitism the workers’ movement, etc; The 1947 Socialist conference in Zurich; Bund activity in postwar-Poland, Belgium, Italy, France, Brazil, and Argentina; Jewish Socialists in Rumania; Bund Resolutions on the Camps; German Socialists and the Jewish Question; Professor Hirsh and Palestine; Discussion in the Bun on the Status of Palestine; On the Bundist Youth Movement in Poland; Special Camps; The Bulletin of the Bund [ie this periodical] in the [DP] Camps; “Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto,’ by Bernard Goldshtein; Bundist Academy in the “Gan Eden” Camp in New York; A Memorial for the ‘Bund’ at the Congress of the French Socialists; etc. “The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: ‘algemeyner yidisher arbeter-bund in lite, poyln un rusland’), generally called The Bund or the Jewish Labour Bund, was a secular Jewish socialist party.... founded in Vilnius on October 7, 1897…..In 1917 the Polish part of the Bund, which dated to the times when Poland was a Russian territory, seceded from the Russian Bund and created a new Polish General Labor Bund which continued to operate in Poland in the years between the two world wars….The Bund sought to unite all Jewish workers in the Russian Empire into a united socialist party, and also to ally itself with the wider Russian social democratic movement to achieve a democratic and socialist Russia. The Russian Empire then included Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and most of present-day Poland, areas where the majority of the world's Jews then lived. They hoped to see the Jews achieve a legal minority status in Russia. Of all Jewish political parties of the time, the Bund was the most progressive regarding gender equality, with women making up more than one-third of all members. The Bund actively campaigned against anti-Semitism. It defended Jewish civil and cultural rights and rejected assimilation. However, the close promotion of Jewish sectional interests and support for the concept of Jewish national unity (klal yisrael) was prevented by the socialist universalism of the Bund. The Bund avoided any automatic solidarity with Jews of the middle and upper classes and generally rejected political cooperation with Jewish groups that held religious, Zionist or conservative views. Even the anthem of the Bund, known as "the oath" (di shvue in Yiddish), written in 1902 by Sh. An-ski, contained no explicit reference to Jews or Jewish suffering. At the heart of the vision of the future of the Bund was the idea that there is no contradiction between the national aspect on the one hand and the socialist aspect on the other. As a strictly secular organization, the Bund renounced the Holy Land and the sacred language (Hebrew) and chose to speak Yiddish….In its early years the Bund had remarkable success, gaining an estimated 30,000 members in 1903 and an estimated 40,000 supporters in 1906, making it the largest socialist group in the Russian Empire…. the Bund was a founding collective member at the RSDLP's first congress in Minsk in March 1898. For the next 5 years, the Bund was recognized as the sole representative of the Jewish workers in the RSDLP, although many Russian socialists of Jewish descent, especially outside of the Pale of Settlement, joined the RSDLP directly….The Bund generally sided with the party's Menshevik faction led by Julius Martov and against the Bolshevik faction led by Vladimir Lenin during the factional struggles in the run-up to the Russian Revolution of 1917….In the Polish areas of the [Russian] empire, the Bund was a leading force in the 1905 revolution. At that time the organization probably reached the height of its influence. It called for an improvement in living standards, a more democratic political system and the introduction of equal rights for Jews. At least in the early stages of the first Russian Revolution, the armed groups of the "Bund" were likely the strongest revolutionary force in Western Russia. During the following years, the Bund went into a period of decay….The Bund eventually came to strongly oppose Zionism, arguing that emigration to Palestine was a form of escapism. The Bund did not advocate separatism. Instead, it focused on culture, rather than a state or a place, as the glue of Jewish ‘nationalism.’ …. The Bund also promoted the use of Yiddish as a Jewish national language and to some extent opposed the Zionist project of reviving Hebrew. The Bund won converts mainly among Jewish artisans and workers, but also among the growing Jewish intelligentsia. It led a trade union movement of its own. It joined with the Poalei Zion (Labour Zionists) and other groups to form self-defense organisations to protect Jewish communities against pogroms and government troops. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 the Bund headed the revolutionary movement in the Jewish towns, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine…..In 1921, the Communist Bund [in the USSR] dissolved itself and its members sought admission to the Communist Party....Many former Bundists, like Mikhail Liber and David Petrovsky, perished during Stalin's purges in the 1930s. The Polish Bundists continued their activities until 1948. During the latter half of the 20th century the Bundist legacy was represented through the International Jewish Labor Bund, a federation of local Bundist groups around the world….Among the exiled Bundists who went on with Socialist politics in America was Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886–1938), elected to the New York Board of Aldermen as a Socialist in 1917…[and] 1937 [and] manager of The Jewish Daily Forward…Moishe Lewis (1888–1950)....the father of David Lewis (1909–1981), a leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada….David Dubinsky (1892–1982), though never formally a member of the party, had joined the bakers' union, which was controlled by the Bund, and was elected assistant secretary within the union by 1906…..He later became a member of the Socialist Party of America, helped found the American Labor Party in 1936 and was from 1932 till 1966 the leader of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union…..under the name Max Goldfarb, David Petrovsky (1886–1937) was a member of the Central Committee of the Jewish Socialist Federation of America, a member of the Socialist Party of America, and the labor editor of The Forward” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Jewish socialists -- New York (State). Jewish labor unions. OCLC: 234327189. OCLC: 234327189. OCLC-Worldcat lists 6 holdings worldwide (NYPL, NLI, YIVO, Harvard, Yale, USHMM), though some listings may be for partial runs. Light wear, Very Good Condition. Rare and important complete set. (Yid-33-51)

1st Edition. Original Illustrated Boards. 8vo. 224, [20] pages ; 20 cm. In Spanish. Title translates into English as, “Bund: History Of The Jewish Labor Movement. ” Laubstein was born in Buenos Aires. He is a civil engineer, teaching both at universities and ORT schools. He is also a community activist in secular Jewish life for the dissemination of Yiddish culture. In recent years his effort has been directed to write, translate and disseminate in Castilian language on relevant historical movements of the recent past to awaken new generations of Jewish interest and to make a more free and open society. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish socialists -- Europe, Eastern -- History. Jewish socialists. Very good condition. (latam-4-5)

1st edition. Original handbill (25 x 15.5 cm). In Yiddish and Latvian. Translates as, “4th Bund Youth Meeting, Riga 1933....Football Match Riga-Liepaja….Attention!....Sport-Festival.” A Bundist youth broadside advertising a Cultural Festival to be held July 7-9, with a football tournament between Riga and Liepaja on July 8th. On July 9th, a “Grandiose sports festival” including a sports parade with mass freestyle athletics, pyramids, boxing etc. Folded once along the horizontal axis. Very good condition. (Latyid-2-12)

1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 16mo (pocket sized), 16 pages. Text in Russian and English. Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin) with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin, China. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, resulting in Tianjin supporting the third largest Jewish community in China in the 1920s and 1930s, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of this booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). OCLC: 84572579. OCLC lists only one library with holdings (Harvard). Essentially a mint condition copy, outstanding and exceedingly rare. (Holo2-160-2)

1st edition, original cloth, 4to, xix+ 288+ (2) pages. Illustrations throughout. Yiddish, with English introduction. “There once was a town of Jewish tailors – Brzezin. From early dawn until late at night one could hear the music of the Singer sewing machines. It was the music of hard work, of intense anxiety, of a hard life, but also of noisy youth, semi-intellectuals, observant Jews, Hasidim who lived and had aspirations in the small Jewish town Brzezin. The Nazi savages extinguished this life forever, transformed it into ashes. Only a few Jews from the tailoring town Brzezin, by some miracle, remain, scattered over the entire world, individuals who were witnesses to the German cannibalism. May these words, frail in print, but inscribed not with ink but with blood, be a modest contribution to the matseve [gravestone] for my native town, Brzezin. Brzezin was one of the oldest and most popular Jewish communities in Poland. When this community was established, it carried the name Krakowek [Little Krakow]. At that time, the community extended from the Strykower highway to beyond the Jewish besoylem [cemetery] to the surrounding hills. The Polish noblewoman, Anna Lasocka, had brought the first weavers from afar into this community. Then the community developed even further and began to broaden its borders. At that time, the town already carried the name Brzezin. Jewish tailors came to Brzezin from many places, and after several generations, the town developed its own type of tailoring industry, by which it was known all over the world. A cottage industry was the main occupation here. As early as 1772, Brzezin was famous for its mass production in tailoring. Until 1914 the great Czarist Russia was flooded with the inexpensive products of Brzeziner tailors. In the years between the two world wars, the export of Brzezin industry was spread over many lands in Europe and into other parts of the world. In this, the great Jewish magaziners [owners of clothing enterprises] – exporters such as Frankensztejn, Tuszynski, Sulkowicz, and others played a great role. The Jews in Brzezin did not only work, they also participated actively in the socio-political and cultural life of the town, had their representatives on the town council – in town hall, and had their religious and secular educational, cultural, and social organizations. Materially, it was a life of Jewish poverty, but spiritually, socially, and culturally, it was rich. ” (translated from book) SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Brzeziny (Lo´dz´) ; Jews. OCLC: 19306453. Light wear on cover, Good Condition Overall. (YIZ-16-6), ok 2/2021

Original Cloth. 4to. 593, 193; 715; 615 pages. 32 cm. First edition. Three Volumes: Volume 1. Classified listing, Appendix: Judaica in the Houghton Library. - Volume 2. Authors and selected subjects. - Volume 3. Titles. Volume 3, of Hebrew titles, is printed right to left. Provides “author, subject (in Latin Characters) and title access to the Hebraica collection at Harvard's Weidener Library. Materials owned by the Library to 1972 are listed. Yiddish materials are not listed. The supplement includes a listing of Hardvard's rare Judaica in the Houghton Library. ” -Entry # 216, Judaica Reference Sources, Second Edition, Cutter and Oppenheim. Subjects: Hebrew imprints. Hebrew literature - Bibliography. Jewish literature - Bibliography. Harvard University Library. Jews - Bibliography - Catalogs. Previous owners name in ink on endpage; light wear to cloth, overall very clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (BIBLIOG-36-8)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. Xx 423 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Each part preceded by leaf with half-title not included in the pagination (4 leaves) . Takes a cultural instead of chronological approach to history; bringing together the author’s opinions, descriptions of community issues, and examinations of events occuring throughout the later 19th and early 20th century. Introduction by Julian W. Mack, U. S. Judge and Zionist leader. Philip Bregstone was a “chicago lawyer, writer, and public official who was active in Jewish affairs and Zionist causes. […] Mr. Bregstone also organized Zionist groups in the Middle West and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to promote the idea of a Palestinian homeland for Jewish peoples. Meanwhile, he wrote many articles about literature and several books— ‘In Shturm von Leben’, which was published in Yiddish in 1924; ‘Chicago and Its Jews’, which was published in English 1933; and ‘Sins of Youth’, which was never published. Bregstone received much recognition during his lifetime for his literary efforts. He died on February 9, 1934 in Chicago. ” (Philip P. Bregstone Papers) Subjects: Jews -- Illinois --Chicago. Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Charities. Ex-library. Slight fraying to top and bottom of backstrip. Light wear to cloth. Very good condition. (AMR-41-45), FOG 2013-04

Original wraps. 4to. 8 pages. 31 cm. Edition. Yiddish; Text in romanized Yiddish. Words and music by Myro Glass; arranged by Josef Millet. For voice and piano. With front wraps printed in green ink, with woodcut illustration from the French Jewish artist Maxa Nordau (daughter of Max Nordau) , depicting Nazi massacres in the background, and the exhortation Z'Chor Yisroel in Hebrew. Internal wrap reads: “Dedicated to the memory of the millions of our martyrs. ” “All the proceeds of this song will go towards the Palestine Symphonic Choiur Project whose aim it is to establish a Jewish Artists' Colony in Palestine. ” Cantor Myro Glass was also president of the Indianapolis Zionist Organization. Subjects: Sacred songs with piano. OCLC lists 3 copies. Light edge wear, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-3-30)

8vo. 468 pages. With 70 pages of photographs. In Yiddish with forward in English. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – persecutions – Lithuania; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) – Lithuania – personal narratives; Oshry, Efriom, b. 1915; Lithuania – ethnic relations. A scarce Yizkor title, very well illustrated.Very Good condition in Good+ Jacket. Nice copy. (YIZ-1-1), ok 2/2021

8vo. 468 pages. With 70 pages of photographs. In Yiddish with forward in English. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – persecutions – Lithuania; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) – Lithuania – personal narratives; Oshry, Efriom, b. 1915; Lithuania – ethnic relations. A scarce Yizkor title, very well illustrated.Very Good condition. (YIZ-1-1A) xx, ok 2/2021

1st edition. Original beige printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 16 pages, 17 cm. In English and Russian. Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Culture Club 'Kunst, theTientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC: 234094994. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (NLI). Punch holes to inner margin (as issued?), toning to cover, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-9)

1st tri-lingual edition (First edition of 1905 lacks English and Yiddish). Original gilt-tooled purple publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 176, [2], xxx pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew and Yiddish with English section, including subscriber’s list listing over 700 names, mostly Jews from small towns and big cities across America. Of special note among the approbations included are those of W. Loeb, on behalf of Pres.Theodore Roosevelt (27 Oct. 1904) and Charles D. Dorton, on behalf of Pres. William Taft (27 June 1910). The Aramaic text of Ezra and Nehemiah is reprinted here with the same type, layout and format as the first edition of 1905. In this second edition Heller added English and Yiddish translations on facing pages.“Heller was born in 1862 in Bialystok. He was a student of Rabbi Samuel Mohilewer, Rabbi Meir Loeb b. Yehiel Mikhel [Malbim], [Michael Levi?] Rodkinson and Meir Ish-Shalom and he was ordained by the former two and by Rabbi Alexander Lapidot of Raseiniai. He also studied in the Koenigsberg gymnasium and the University of Vienna. He immigrated to America ca. 1900 and was a rabbi and teacher in a number of communities, including New York, Winnipeg, Calumet (MI)...Philadelphia, Waco (TX) and Charleston (WV)....Heller contributed to the Hebrew press and was known as a Zionist preacher. In America he studied at Baylor University (Texas) and the University of Chicago. He died in 1932 in New York. His younger brother was the famed scholar Rabbi Chaim Heller” (Goldman)The book ncludes: errata (pages 175-6); acknowledgments (page 11] preface (pages V1-XI); and the long list of over 700 subscribers (pages XII-XXX). Other approbations include those of: Rev. Dr. H[enry] . Pereira Mendes of New York (30 May 1905); Rabbi Dr. Hillel Hacohen Klein of New York (10 May 1905); Rabbi Dov Aryeh Hacohen [Bernard Louis] Levinthal of Philadelphia (20 Mar. 1905); Rabbi Mordekhai Zev Raisin (Adar 1905); Tashrak [Israel Joseph Zevin] (7 June 1905); David Moses Hermalin (15 June 1905); Alexander Moses Lapidot of Raseiniai; Dr. Abraham Elijah Harkavy of St. Petersburg (Tabernacles 1883); Dr. Israel Mikhel Rabinovich OBM of Paris; Meir Ish-Shalom of Vienna (23 Nov. 1883); Jacob Reifmann (5 Nov. 1883); Dr. Gotthard Deutsch in American Israelite (25 Jan. 1906); and the Camden Post Telegram (23 May 1904). SUBJECT(S): Bible. Ezra -- Commentaries. Daniel. OCLC: 41121668. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Gilt lettering rubbing off boards, otherwise very Good Condition, a beautiful Copy. (YID-42-7-LE-'x)

1st edition, Original paper wrappers. 8vo. XI, 232, 178, [2] pages. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Two issues have separate title page and abstracts in English, Yiddish; issue one also includes an abstract in Russian: “Pages for the study of the catastrophe and the revolt” published by the Yitzhak Katznelson Ghetto Fighters House. Major essays include: Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum’s Literary Remains; ‘Aktion Stroop’; On Cultural Life in the Lodz Ghetto during the year 1940/41; Results of an Enquiry Conducted Among the Members of the ‘Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz; Brief Notes. Collecting Material for recent Jewish History; Some Rescue and Relief Activities; The Pogroms in Poland (1935-1937); The linguistic heritage of the Nazi years and its expression in Hebrew Literature; Poems by Katznelson, and Book Reviews. On the Kibbutzim, "Very few museums of Holocaust history were set up; the first of these was founded only a few years after World War II, with the arrival in Eretz-Israel of refugees from the war and a group who had been fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This united group found[ed] the 'Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz', Kibbutz Lochamei Ha-Ghettaot, and in 1951 inaugurated the 'Itzhak Katznelson Ghetto Fighters’ House'. The museum became a center for education, research, mass memorial assemblies, and was a central institution on the subject of the Holocaust and the Rebellion until the consolidation in the ’60s of the 'Yad Vashem' museum in Jerusalem" (Museum Ein-Harod, 2012). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Periodicals. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Periodicals. Ex-library with usual markings. Pages aged, brittle. Covers aged and torn. Otherwise clean. Fair condition. (HOLO2-102-44)

1st edition, 8vo. XI, 232, 178, [2] pages. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Bound in original quarter cloth and boards. Two issues have separate title page and abstracts in English, Yiddish; issue one also includes an abstract in Russian: “Pages for the study of the catastrophe and the revolt” published by the Yitzhak Katznelson Ghetto Fighters House. Major essays include: Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum’s Literary Remains; ‘Aktion Stroop’; On Cultural Life in the Lodz Ghetto during the year 1940/41; Results of an Enquiry Conducted Among the Members of the ‘Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz; Brief Notes. Collecting Material for recent Jewish History; Some Rescue and Relief Activities; The Pogroms in Poland (1935-1937); The linguistic heritage of the Nazi years and its expression in Hebrew Literature; Poems by Katznelson, and Book Reviews. On the Kibbutzim, "Very few museums of Holocaust history were set up; the first of these was founded only a few years after World War II, with the arrival in Eretz-Israel of refugees from the war and a group who had been fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This united group found[ed] the 'Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz', Kibbutz Lochamei Ha-Ghettaot, and in 1951 inaugurated the 'Itzhak Katznelson Ghetto Fighters’ House'. The museum became a center for education, research, mass memorial assemblies, and was a central institution on the subject of the Holocaust and the Rebellion until the consolidation in the ’60s of the 'Yad Vashem' museum in Jerusalem" (Museum Ein-Harod, 2012). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Periodicals. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Periodicals. Pages aged, brittle. Covers aged and edgeworn. Otherwise clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-102-44A)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 30 pages, 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Darwinism. " Benjamin Feigenbaum (1860-1932) was a Polish-American Yiddish socialist and Yiddish writer. He edited The Forward and the literary monthly Di Tshukunft. He was an outspoken critic of religion, and was also a pioneer of the Socialist Party of America and ran into considerable police trouble as a result of his activism (Wikipedia) . SUBJECTS: Darwin, Charles. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide (OCLC: 19313039) . Front wrapper is loose with some chips in the margins. Pages brownings and omewhat fragile with very small chips in bottom right corner. Otherwise good condition. (YID-33-22-EL)

Contemporary marbled paper over boards. 12mo. 154; 140 pages. 17 cm. Only edition. Two Volumes in one. In German. A volume of Biblical history (including a retelling of many Bible stories) , with moral notes by Heimann Schwabacher. It is designated on the title page as a work for more mature youth. The author is also known as Hayyim Hirsch Schwabacher, and is listed as the translator of Behinot Olam by Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi and also of Olelot Ha-Bohen (by the same author) . These are both works on ethics, and in both the German translation is transliterated using Hebrew letters. He also wrote a book in Yiddish on ethics, entitled Keren Tushiya (Fuerth, 1817) . Attractively bound in marbled boards and leather backstrip. Printed on ragpaper. Subjects: Bible – Germany – Haskalah. OCLC lists three copies, none of which seem to contain both parts (UCLA, HUC, Natl Libr Israel) , none east of Cincinnati. Light wear to hinges, otherwise verry clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-43-48)

8vo. 13 pages. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Yale, Michigan State, Univ of Manchester) . Very good condition. (MX-4-2)

First edition. Period boards. 8vo. 114 pages. 25 cm with multiple fold out maps and graphs. In Yiddish. Title translates to "The Activity of the Jewish World Conference: From the Years 1920-1923." "The first Jewish World Relief Conference was held in Karlsbad, Germany, in August 1920. 105 delegates from 60 relief organizations from different countries participated. The second conference was held in 1924. The purpose of the conferences was to organize all of the Jewish people and organizations for relief for European Jewry after World War I. " (YU, 2017) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- Europe. Charities -- Europe. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Pages are browning and somewhat delicate, but in good shape. Overall Good Condition. (YID-27-54) (x-y-px)

Paper wrappers; 8vo. 38 pages. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Cover chipped, bottom corner bumped, good condition. (ComHist-10-16)

(FT) Original Wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Title page verso: The Old Man of Lompaduni and other Stories. This beautifully illustrated book of childrens stories is printed in seven colors of ink. The author of these seven stories in Yiddish was Yuri Suhl, who emigrated from Poland to the United States in the 1920’s, and became well known as a Yiddish poet and childrens writer. His other works included the popular "They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe. " That work was praised as a landmark contribution to Holocaust literature and Suhl spent more than five years documenting it before it was published in 1967. His other works included "Eloquent Crusader: Ernestine Rose, " a biography of the Polish-born feminist, and two autobiographical novels: "One Foot in America" and "Cowboy on a Wooden Horse. " He was also a trustee of the fund set up for the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The illustrator, William Gropper (1897–1977) , a cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist; he grew up in the lower east side, and an aunt of his died in the triangle shirtwaist factory fire. He was a dedicated left wing political cartoonist for both English and Yiddish papers. During the second half of the 1930s, Gropper dedicated his art to the efforts to raise popular opposition to fascism in Europe. Following World War II, Gropper traveled to Poland to attend the inaugural convention of the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace of 1948 in Wroclaw. This Yiddish childrens book was printed there, both for an audience of international anti-fascist partisans and survivors gathering to found the World Peace Council, as well as for those survivors living in Wroclaw, one of the largest post-war Jewish communities in Poland for a few years. Rare, OCLC lists 12 copies. Subjects: Children's stories, Yiddish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Front cover repaired with tape, edges chipped. All pages lightly aged, but clean and fresh. Good condition. Scarce and important (HOLO2-97-42)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 380, 223, 194, 180 pages. 21 cm. “Spetsyele Frayhayt” edition. In Yiddish. Four volumes in one. Translations of The Iron Heel; The Game; Before Adam; The Call of the Wild. Each volume was oft published individually as well, this special collection of novels issued by Farlag Frayhayt, the anarchist publisher. Translations by Max Hugo Weinberg, Hersh Rozenfeld, N. Perlman, and Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Frayhayt, the Communist Yiddish Daily. Title page printed in red and black ink. Subjects: London, Jack, 1876-1916 - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Cloth rubbed, binding starting, light pencil marks on first endpage, otherwise clean. Good condition. (YID-16-18)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers 4to (magazine size) , 32, 128 pages. In Yiddish (128 pages) and English (32 pages). 3 Volumes were issued (1946, 1947, 1948) Includes many photos. 24 cm. SUBJECT(S) : Jews, East European -- United States -- Periodicals. : Jews -- Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine) OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide.. Spine crudely repaired with black tape, but covers are otherwise good, and internal paper and binding remain good and strong as well. Good condition thus. (GH-3-10A-ALX-’o)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 316; 120; 125 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Contents also in Ukrainian. First three issues (complete run? ) of Der Shtern (The Star) , published Kiev 1947-1948; literary almanac (poetry, short stories, criticism, music) of the Yiddish section of the Soviet Writers Union of the Ukraine; contains contributions from Itsik Fefer, David Hofshteyn, Avrom Kahan, Arn Kushnirov, Hershl Polianker and many others. Subjects: Yiddish literature - Ukraine - Periodicals. Jews - Ukraine - Literary collections. Jews. Yiddish literature. Literary collections. Periodicals. OCLC lists 11 copies. Scarce. Wraps aged, worn, and bumped. Pages aged but not brittle. Good - condition. (YID-22-44)

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 66 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The Truth about Palestine. ” Litvak (1874–1932) was the pseudonym of Haim Yankl Helfand, socialist, Yiddish writer, translator, and editor. Helfand who grew up in a strict orthodox home, joined an illegal study group in Vilna organized by the Jewish Social Democratic Group in Russia, the organization that later established the Bund in 1897.The Jewish socialist intelligentsia in Vilna immediately recognized Helfand’s usefulness to the movement, as he was a native Yiddish speaker with a traditional Jewish background and competency in Russian. From 1905 onward (after being exiled to Siberia) , he began writing under the pseudonym A. Litvak. Between 1905 and 1914, he was one of the most influential and prolific Yiddish writers for the Bund. During World War I, Litvak settled in America, where he supported the Jewish labor movement. SUBJECTS: Palestine -- Description and travel.. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Cover wrapper has much edgewear. Binding repaired. Internally Good. (ZION-13- 53)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 43 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “The People's Speaker”; a collection of sermons and speeches. Subjects: Jewish sermons - United States. Jewish sermons, Yiddish - United States. Jewish sermons. Jewish sermons, Yiddish. United States. OCLC lists 14 copies. Wraps soiled, internally clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-21-24)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. [576 pages], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The Friend: Official Organ of the Workmen’s Circle. ” A complete year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, at a later juncture, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting after 1917. Binding starting. Half of page one, Jan. 1914 is missing. Otherwise Very Good Condition. (YID-30-38)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. Ca 24-32 pages each issue [ca 180 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. A complete Nazi-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, as in this volume, bimonthly. Includes double plate photo montage of the Workmen's Circle National Executive Committee for 1932-1933, featuring E. Finkelstein, who's copy this is, with his name gilt embossed on the front cover. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Paper toning, but well protected over the years with no breakage or edgewear. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous Very Good Condition. (YID-43-35)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. Ca 24-32 pages each issue [ca 160 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. A complete Nazi-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, as in this volume, bimonthly. This copy belonging to the Fraynd's editor L. Rothman, whose name is gilt-embossed on the cover. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Rear cover stained and damaged.Paper toning, but well protected so no edgewear at all, overall Good Condition. (XXYID-43-36A)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 120 +24 +24 +24 pages [192 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. A complete Holocaust-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Paper toning, but well protected so only a touch of edgewear to upper outer corner not affecting text. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous, About Very Good Condition. (YID-43-37)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 16-24 pages each issue [130 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Paper toningin first 4 issues toning, but well protected with no edgewear; final 2 issues printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous, Very Good Condition. (YID-43-39)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. One issue 20 pages, the others 16 pages each [148 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Bookplate. Dampstains throughout, but no real damage, pages remain clear and not stuck or damaged. Printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Good Condition. (YID-43-41)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. Most issues 16 pages, one 48 and one 24 [184 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos, especially in the extra large 50th anniversary issue. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Bookplate. Dampstains throughout, but no real damage, pages remain clear and not stuck or damaged. Printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Good Condition. (YID-43-43)

Publishers cloth. 12mo. 150 pages. 20 cm. First Yiddish edition. First appearance of any of Tagore’s work in Yiddish, published in the year that Tagore was knighted. Translation of the prose work ‘The Gardener’, first published in English in 1913, by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) , winner of the nobel prize in literature in 1913, and knighted in 1915. Subjects: Bengali poetry - Translations into Yiddish. Yiddish poetry - Translations from Bengali. OCLC lists 24 copies. Front hinge starting, light wear to endpages and cloth, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (CJH-1-20) X

1st illustrated edition. Original boards. 8vo. 222 pages. 1st Illustrated Edition of Leivick’s most famous work, published the same year as the unillusrtated edition, with wonderful drawings by Y. Topol and breathtaking woodcuts by Max Weber interspersed throughout, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The Golem: A Dramatic Poem in Eight Scenes.” H. Leivick (1888-1962) was a famous Yiddish language writer best known for this 1921 work. “Leivick's style was neo-Romantic and marked by a deep apocalyptic pessimism combined with an almost naive interest and yearning for the mystical and messianic, themes that continually appeared in his writing, particularly The Golem, which depicted the Jewish Messiah and Jesus Christ as representatives of a peaceful redemption, only to be chased away by the Maharal of Prague and his violent Golem, who ultimately rampaged through the streets of Prague injuring large numbers of people, both Jews and Christians. In The Golem, Leivick simultaneously condemned any attempts to heal the world through violence, but also highlighted the fallibility and impotence of all would-be Messiahs. The poem was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled critique of the Bolshevik Revolution and caused Leivick to be criticized by the Soviet Union and Communist Yiddishists. Leivick stopped writing for the Communist papers in 1929 following their public support for the Arab riots in Palestine and broke off all connections with the left following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. Max Weber (1881-1961) “was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art....Born in the Polish city of Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire, Weber emigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn with his Orthodox Jewish parents at the age of ten. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow. … In 1909 he [Weber] helped to introduce Cubism to America. He is now considered one of the most significant early American Cubists, but the reception his work received in New York at the time was profoundly discouraging. Critical response to his paintings in a 1911 show at the 291 gallery, run by Alfred Stieglitz, was an occasion for ‘one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America.’ The reviews were ‘of an almost hysterical violence.’ He was attacked for his ‘brutal, vulgar, and unnecessary art license.’....Weber was sustained by the respect of some eminent peers, such as photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn and Clarence White, and museum director John Cotton Dana, who saw to it that Weber was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the Newark Museum in 1913, the first modernist exhibition in an American museum. For a few years, Weber enjoyed a productive if rocky relationship with Stieglitz, and he published two essays in Stieglitz's journal Camera Work. (He also wrote Cubist poems and published a book, Essays on Art, in 1916.) So poor was Weber in these years that he camped out for some weeks in Stieglitz's gallery. Weber was also closely acquainted with Wilhelmina Weber Furlong and Thomas Furlong, whom he met at the Art Students League, where he taught from 1919 to 1921 and 1926 to 1927….He was the subject of a major retrospective at the Jewish Museum in 1982….In time, Weber's work found more adherents, including Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the first director of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1930, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work, the first solo exhibition at that museum of an American artist. He was praised as a ‘pioneer of modern art in America’ in a 1945 Life magazine article. In 1948, Look magazine reported on a survey among art experts to determine the greatest living American artists; Weber was rated second, behind only John Marin. He was the subject of a major traveling retrospective in 1949. He became more popular in the 1940s and 1950s for his figurative work, often expressionist renderings of Jewish families, rabbis, and Talmudic scholars, than for the early modernist work he had abandoned circa 1920 and on which his current reputation is founded” (Wikipedia). SUBJECTS: Golem - Drama. Cloth is lightly worn, inside hinges show repair. Foxing, pre-war Yiddish institutional stamps, spine label, otherwise Good+ Condition. (YID-33-60-L-’ex)xx

Original Illustrated Wraps. 4to. 264, 17 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In Yiddish, with some Spanish. The Wood Industry Yearbook, 1953, published by the Jewish union of the Association of timber industrialists in Argentina. “As unlikely as it may seem, Yiddish periodicals devoted to the professional and other interests of particular occupations and trades sometimes contain literary materials. This is either because the members were interested in such matters or the editors (often professional writers) were, or both. Thus, in the Argentinian annual, Der holts-industryal (1896-1956), edited for many years by the writer, G. Sapozhnikov, one finds that stories, poems and essays take up the greater part of each volume. The authors are such celebrated writers as H. Leyvik, Avrom Sutskever, Khayim Grade, Yoysef Opatoshu as well as Argentinian and other South American writers. There are also book reviews and notices in this Oysgabe fun fareyn far holts- un ayzn- industryaln in argentine. The Argentine textile manufacturers were no less literary and the same editor edited their Zamlbukh (q.v.) on the occasion of their association's twenty-fifth anniversary.” (Yiddish Literary and LinguisticPeriodicals and Miscellanies, A Selective Annotated Bibliography, by Leonard Prager with the help of A.A. Greenbaum). Includes portrait of Eva Peron, and advertisements for woodworking machines. Subjects: Buenos Aires – Yiddish – Industrialists – Yearbook. Yiddish – Buenos Aires – Literature. No copies listed on OCLC, but a copy is housed in the Papers of Shmuel Niger at YIVO. Wraps worn, light chipping to edges, small tear along backstrip, internally clean and fresh. Good condition. (CJH-1-19), Y 11/12

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 15 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Dutch, German, French, Russian, and English. Each page features a translation of Hirsh Glick’s most famous poem. Hirsh Glick (1922-1944) was a well known Jewish poet and partisan during WWII. He was active in the Vilna Ghetto underground and 1942 uprising. In 1943, he wrote his most famous piece, "Zog nit Keynmol, az du geyst dem letsn veg, which became the anthem for the Jewish partisan movement. He continued to compose songs throughout his capitivity, ultimately being killed by the Germans in 1944 (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS:World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Jews -- Poetry. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide (OCLC:19313528). Very good condition. (HOLO2-147-7-ABLIIICC-’ex)

Original Wraps. 12mo. 45 pages. 19 cm. First edition. “The Intellectual: A Drama in Three Acts. ” In Yiddish, but printed with type employing Hebrew diacritics. An early play in Hirschbeyns repertoire, written in his symbolist phase. Subjects: Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 12 copies Wrap corner edgeworn, outer edges lightly aged, binding repaired, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (YID-18-6)

Half cloth, 8vo. , various pagination. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature. Yiddish literature -- Periodicals. Collection of issues of this quarterly periodical devoted to Yiddish literature, edited by Dovid Kozanski un Mani Leyb. Includes “Nyu York in ferzen” (New York in verse) by Mani leyb, illustrated by Zuni Maud. No other volumes published. Spine lightly sunned. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-2-9)

1st edition. Beautiful original period half-leather over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt spine design. Title translates as, “The Jew, A Weekly.” German interspersed with Hebrew. Device on title. Headpieces, initials, tailpieces. Includes graphics of Jewish ceremonial art [for example, in Vol. II, between pp. 52-53; Vol. II: pp. (12), 368. Vol. III: pp.(16) ]. The editor of Der Jude, Gottfried Selig (1722-95), was a convert to Christianity who sought reconciliation between Christians and Jews, to which end, this periodical appeared containing much information about Jewish history, rites and customs. His assumption was that, equipped with deeper insight into Jewish life, a greater sense of understanding would arise within society as a whole. Selig’s goal in publishing Der Jude was to make peace between Christians and Jews, but the work earned him opposition from both sides, with Jews claiming that its true goal was to convert Jews to Christianity, and Christians claiming that it lacked historical veracity and presented a false neutrality. Der Jude was issued between 1768-1772 in nine volumes. Kirchner 2084. Furst III, 309. Diesch 773. Yiddish scholar Judah Joffe’s set with his photographic bookplate. Marbled endpapers. Slight internal binding error at rear of vol III, otherwise a beautiful dramatic period set in Very Good Condition. Price for all 74 issues, bound in 3 volumes (GER-60-5)

(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 216 pages, 1 leaf of plates, portraits. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Friedman, Dob Baer. Drama. In Yiddish. Title (romanized) on title page verso: Der Liever rabbi. Other Titles: Liever rabbi. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Light staining to front cover. Light wear. Somewhat scarce. Very good condition. (Heb-22-15)

(FT) Hardcover, small 8vo, 103 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. [6] leaves of plates. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- juvenile --- Russia. OCLC lists 6 copies of this edition worldwide. Edgewear to covers, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-31A)

Original Cloth. 4to. 159 pages. 27 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Poems by Chaim Grade. "Der mentsh fun fayer (The Man of Fire; 1962) includes a moving elegy for the murdered Soviet Yiddish writers, lyrics about the American landscape, and the haunting voice of the dead who impress upon him the obligation to keep their memory alive. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. Published by Cyco-Tsiko, printed by Shulsinger Bros. With four illustrations and cover design by Benn. Attractively printed and bound. Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Chaim Grade. Light soiling to edges of binding, otherwise very fresh and clean. Previous owner's name on endpapers, Very good condition. (YID-21-47A-E)

(FT) Cloth, 8vo. , 154 pages. Volume one only of two. In Yiddish. “The New Beginner”. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish language -- Readers. Illustrated primer for children with short stories. OCLC lists only 6 copies worldwide. Light wear to spine. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-1-6)

(FT) VOLUME ONE OF SIX ONLY. Cloth, 8vo. , 116 pages. In Yiddish. “The Beginner: A reader; with many illustrations in the text”. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish language -- Readers. Responsibility: Yankev Levin. OCLC lists 30 copies worldwide. Light wear to spine. School stamp on inside covers and name of former student owner in pencil. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-4-2)

Original Cloth. 4to. 410, 66 Columns. 28 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Annals: Yearbook for the History of Yiddish Literature and Language, Folklore, Criticism, and Bibliography." First and only volume of Der Pinkes Yohrbukh far der geshikhte fun der yudisher literatur un shprakh, far folklor, kritik, un bibliografye . Der Pinkes laid the foundations for the scholarly study of the Yiddish language and literature. An impressive volume, large in format, hardbound, with gilt lettering on the front cover and the impress of the publisher, Vilner ferlag B. A. Kletskin, on the back. Contains “Di oyfgabn fun der der yidisher filologye” (The Tasks of Yiddish Philology) by Ber Borokhov, Samuel Niger's 'Yiddish Literature and the Woman Reader', reviews of the theatre by Shloyme Ettinger and Avrom Goldfadn, a compendium of 'The Repertoire of the Jewish Theater in America Until the 1912 Season, ' 'The Repertoire of the Jewish Theater in Russia Until 1912'; further articles on the Yiddish Press, Yiddish Book Market, Folklore, etc. Subjects: Yiddish literature - History and criticism. Yiddish language - History and criticism. Yiddish language - Bibliography. Yiddish language. Yiddish literature. Bibliography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC: 40360160. Library marks on endpapers; front endpaper loose, old damp stains to margins of a few leavs. Spine lable and tape repairs to backstrip torn, a bit of toning to paper, but really a solid, nice copy, Good condition. (BIBLIOG-35-47A-ELX+)

Original Cloth. 8vo. XIII, 159; 546 pages. 24 cm. First edition; first appearance. In German. First volume (in two books) of the monumental The Prussian State and the Jews by Selma Stern. Teil I. Die Zeit des Grossen Kurfürsten und Friedrichs I. 1. Abt. Darstellung. 2. Abt. Akten. Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums. Historische Sektion. Veröffentlichungen. Bd. 3. “The voluminous publication is both an analysis and a source edition of the policy of the Prussian rulers towards the Jews from 1640 to 1786, covering the times from the Great Elector up to Frederick the Great. It is a social and economic history of the era leading up to the emancipation and assimilation of Prussia's Jewry. In it Stern emphasizes the relationship between the Prussian state and the Jewish minority. Highlighting the active role and interest of the Absolutist state (and its officialdom) in a gradual juridification of the status of the Jews, Stern’s research offered, in the 1920s, a new perspective on Jewish emancipation. Her argument went beyond previous scholarly views on the subject, which had conceptualized Prussian-Jewish emancipation mainly as an outcome of the Enlightenment. Although dealing with early modern Prussian-Jewish history, Stern's research interest was clearly informed by contemporary concerns. ” - LBI Yearbook 2013. Selma Stern-Taeubler (1890–1981) , “German historian. Selma Stern-Taeubler, born in Kippenheim (Baden) , was the first girl to attend the Gymnasium in Baden-Baden. She then studied history and languages at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, graduating in 1913. She specialized at first in general German history, but became interested in the history of German Jewry. In 1919 she was appointed a research fellow at the Akademie fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin at the invitation of its founder and director, the historian Eugen Taeubler , whom she married in 1927. Her special field was compiling source material on the relationship between the Prussian state and its Jews from 1648 to 1812. Her scholarly publications were based on the premise that Judaism had to be studied in the context of the political and cultural environment. The first two volumes of her chief work, Der preussische Staat und die Juden, were published in 1925, and a third volume followed in 1938, but almost the entire edition was destroyed by the Nazis. ” - EJ 2008. She returned to her work on the Preussische Staat later in life, and published a total of four volumes (in eight books) between 1962 and 1971, under the auspices of the LBI. Subjects: Jews - Germany - Prussia. Jews. Juden. Deutschland. Preußen. Germany - Prussia. Light soiling to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (GER-43-55)

1st Yiddish Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. [7]- 287 pages ; 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title in English was, "The Rainbow. " This is the first Yiddish edition of Wanda Wasilewskas novel which won the Stalin Prize in 1943. "Wasilewska (1905 1964) , was a Polish and Soviet novelist and communist political activist who played an important role in the creation of a Polish division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II and the formation of the People's Republic of Poland. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually the Soviet Union (as a writer, she) was one of the first Polish (authors) to follow the rules of Socialist Realism. She wrote several novels and a handful of poems. The communist government in Poland named countless streets and schools after her and she was one of the most notable figures in communist society. Some of her books were obligatory at school after the war. " (Wikipedia, 2017) OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Pages are toned, and nearing brittle. One corner folded. Wrappers show some wear, with small tear in spine. About Good Condition. (HOLO2-135-76)

Original Cloth. 8vo. 165 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Der shikzal fun a folk [simbolishe drama mit a prolog in fier akten]; Ven a froy shtoltsirt: [drama in fier akten]. On Cover: Tsvey Dramen. Two plays in Yiddish. Subjects: Yiddish – Theatre – Plays. OCLC lists 7 copies. Cloth soiled, worn at bottom corner; damp stains to outer edge, otherwise clean and fresh. Good - condition. (WOMEN-2-35) xx

Publishers cloth. 8vo. X, 375 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Along with “Di Etik, ” also published in 1923, this represents the very first appearance of any of Spinoza’s works in any Jewish language. Perhaps one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period, the TTP, in its critique of religion and of Jewish "chosenness", is possibly one of the most appropriate of Spinoza’s works to be translated into Yiddish for secular readers. Translated by N. Perlman, who also translated Jack London, Anatole France, Schopenhauer, and Thomas Paine into Yiddish. Subjects: Philosophy and religion. Free thought. Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC Number: 150623442.Spine darkened, touch of wear to foot and crown of spine. Very Good condition. (YID-16-15-E) Xxxx

(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 309, viii pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Series: Bibliyotek fun Yivo; 7; Variation: Bibliyotek fun Yivo; 7. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish youth -- Psychological aspects. Personality and culture -- Methodology. Includes bibliographical references and index. Other Titles: Way to our youth; elements, methods, and problems of Jewish youth research; Droga do naszej mlodziezy: podstawy, metody, zagadnienia badania mlodziezy zydowskiej; Veg cu undzer jugnt. Weinreich (1864-1969) was a “Yiddish linguist, historian, editor. Born in Kuldiga, Weinreich made his debut as a Yiddish writer at the age of 13, and became a contributor to various Yiddish, Russian, German, and later English publications. After studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Berlin, he completed a doctoral thesis on the history of Yiddish philology at the University of Marburg. Early in his career Weinreich became a prominent educator in various capacities, ranging from the teaching of Yiddish literature at the Vilna Yiddish Teachers’ Seminary to serving as leader of a Yiddish scouting movement, Di Bin. He was instrumental in giving Yiddish linguistics a solid, scholarly footing. Co-founder with Nokhem Shtif, Elias Tcherikover, and Zalmen Rejzen of the YIVO Institute, and YIVO’s guiding spirit, he was largely responsible for its achieving a worldwide reputation. As director of YIVO’s Research Training Division and organizer of its graduate school, Weinreich successfully educated young Yiddish scholars, among them, his son, Uriel Weinreich. At the World Congress of Linguistics in Copenhagen, he lectured on “Yiddish as an Object of General Linguistics, ” and in 1940, he immigrated with his son Uriel to the U. S. , where he became the country’s first university professor of Yiddish, teaching Yiddish language, literature, and folklore at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University, while serving as the scholarly director of YIVO. Weinreich’s wide array of books and studies include his magnum opus, Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Shprakh, the culmination of a half century of research on Yiddish sociolinguistics, tracing the thousand-year development of Ashkenazi culture and the Yiddish language as integral to the Jewish way of life. He studied the development of Yiddish from its origins in Germany, through Eastern Europe and into the second diaspora, creating the basic concepts and theoretical tools of the linguistic study of Jewish languages. Prominent among his other works are Hitlers Profesorn – probably the best documented indictment of German scholarship during the Nazi regime; Shturemvint, sketches on 17th-century Jewish history; Bilder fun der Yidisher Literatur-Geshikhte; Der Veg tsu Undzer Yugnt, a socio-psychological study of Jewish youth in Eastern Europe; and Di Shvartse Pintelekh, a history of alphabets. Weinreich translated Homer, Freud, and Ernst Toller into Yiddish and edited the periodicals Yidishe Filologye, Filologishe Shriftn, Yivo-Bleter, and the critical edition of S. Ettinger’s works, N. Stutchkoff’s Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh, Y. L. Cahan’s Shtudyes vegn Yidisher Folkshafung, and Yidishe Folkslider mit Melodyes” (Schaechter and Baumgarten in EJ, 2007) . Hinge repair. Browning to pages. Wear to cover corners. Otherwise, good condition. (Heb-40-16)

(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 309, viii pages, 35 cm. In Yiddish. “The way to our youth; elements, methods, and problems of Jewish youth research. ” Nazi-era imprint, looking at Jewish youth in 1930s Poland. Series: Bibliotek fun Yivo; Nom. 1 (7) ; Variation: Bibliotek fun Yivo. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish youth -- Psychological aspects. Personality and culture -- Methodology. Added title page: The way to our youth; elements, methods, and problems of Jewish youth research. Added title page also in Lithuanian: Keliasimusu javnuomene. Bibliographical footnotes and index. Other Titles: Way to our youth. ; Keliasimusu jaunuomene. Weinreich (1894-1969) was a “Yiddish linguist, historian, editor. Born in Kuldiga (Latvia) , Weinreich made his debut as a Yiddish writer at the age of 13, and became a contributor to various Yiddish, Russian, German, and later English publications. After studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Berlin, he completed a doctoral thesis on the history of Yiddish philology at the University of Marburg. Early in his career Weinreich became a prominent educator in various capacities, ranging from the teaching of Yiddish literature at the Vilna Yiddish Teachers’ Seminary to serving as leader of a Yiddish scouting movement, Di Bin. He was instrumental in giving Yiddish linguistics a solid, scholarly footing. Co-founder with Nokhem Shtif, Elias Tcherikover, and Zalmen Rejzen of the YIVO Institute, and YIVO’s guiding spirit, he was largely responsible for its achieving a worldwide reputation. As director of YIVO’s Research Training Division and organizer of its graduate school, Weinreich successfully educated young Yiddish scholars, among them, his son, Uriel Weinreich. At the World Congress of Linguistics in Copenhagen, he lectured on “Yiddish as an Object of General Linguistics, ” and in 1940, he immigrated with his son Uriel to the U. S. , where he became the country’s first university professor of Yiddish, teaching Yiddish language, literature, and folklore at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University, while serving as the scholarly director of YIVO. Weinreich’s wide array of books and studies include his magnum opus, Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Shprakh, the culmination of a half century of research on Yiddish sociolinguistics, tracing the thousand-year development of Ashkenazi culture and the Yiddish language as integral to the Jewish way of life. He studied the development of Yiddish from its origins in Germany, through Eastern Europe and into the second diaspora, creating the basic concepts and theoretical tools of the linguistic study of Jewish languages. Prominent among his other works are Hitlers Profesorn- probably the best documented indictment of German scholarship during the Nazi regime; Shturemvint, sketches on 17th-century Jewish history; Bilder fun der Yidisher Literatur-Geshikhte; Der Veg tsu Undzer Yugnt, a socio-psychological study of Jewish youth in Eastern Europe; and Di Shvartse Pintelekh, a history of alphabets. Weinreich translated Homer, Freud, and Ernst Toller into Yiddish and edited the periodicals Yidishe Filologye, Filologishe Shriftn, Yivo-Bleter, and the critical edition of S. Ettinger’s works, N. Stutchkoff’s Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh, Y. L. Cahan’s Shtudyes vegn Yidisher Folkshafung, and Yidishe Folkslider mit Melodyes” (Schaechter and Baumgarten in EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (U of Melbourne, Paris-Cujas-Bu Droit, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Bayersiche Staatsbibliothek). SPine repair with black cloth tape. Title page torn and repaired with tape. Browning to pages. Good condition. (Holo2-74-6A)

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)

Later boards. 16mo. 32 pages. 14 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. A collection of 243 Yiddish proverbs; compiled by the famous Yiddish folklorist Yehuda Leib Cahan (1881-1937) . Subjects: Proverbs, Yiddish. Folklore. OCLC lists 17 copies. Lightly soiled first few pages, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-18-14)

Hungary/Slovakia? Ca. 1925? Hardcover, 8vo, 167 pages. In Yiddish. None on OCLC, very scarce. Hinge repairs. Lacks bottom 1/3 of title page. Paper brown, somewhat fragile, but useable. Otherwise good condition. (Hasid-6-8)

1st Edition. Original paper wrappers bound into period cloth, 4to, 6-16 pages per issue. In Yiddish. Includes some cartoons and other illustrations, including one we noticed by William Gropper. Der Yunion Arbayter (The Union Worker) lasted 2 volumes, running weekly until 1927. The first volume, complete, is here. “A.L.G.V.Y / I.L.G.V.Y.” stands for the Yiddish name for the heavily Yiddish speaking International Ladies Garment Workers Union; this newspaper was published by an Anarchist section within the union. “Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists were one of the pillars of the U.S. anarchist movement before World War II. This largely immigrant radical milieu was centered in New York City and opposed capitalism, the state, and organized religion. Yiddish-speaking anarchists built militant unions, anarchist newspapers, and other organizations to further their cause. Many famous anarchists were linked to this movement, including Johann Most, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Rudolf Rocker. Yiddish-speaking anarchists played a pivotal role in unions like the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), while the Yiddish anarchist newspaper the Fraye Arbeter Shtime (The Free Voice of Labor) was the largest and longest-lasting U.S. anarchist publication and formed a significant part of the Yiddish cultural landscape. In the 1930s a second generation of bilingual Jewish anarchists emerged, including Sam and Esther Dolgoff, and Audrey Goodfriend, whose influence is still felt in today’s anarchist movement.Despite the importance of Yiddish anarchism to the histories of both the U.S. Left and the Jewish community, it has been largely forgotten and written out of historical scholarship” (YIVO). Cited in Paul Avrich’s “Anarchist Portraits” (Princeton, 1988) pp 192 & 196. Listed in John Patten’s “Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography - Periodicals” (https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/w9gk09). SUBJECT(S): Jewish anarchists. OCLC 10218086. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide LOC, YIVO, NYU), with NYU holding only this one volume and the Union List of Serials suggesting that the run may have "Ceased with Sept. 26, 1927 issue?" Rear hinge starting. Three issues printed on lower quality paper have darkened, but without any edgewear or breakage. The other 49 issues, printed on quality paper and well protected, remain bright white. All issues clear and very well preserved. Very Good Condition. An outstanding complete volume of a very rare and important Yiddish Anarchist periodical. (YID-42-20)

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) Stiff paper wrappers, small 8vo, 112 pages. Boldly illustrated cover. Title translates as, "Security: A Play in 3 Acts on Jewish Life in Nazi-Germany." Early (1941) expose of Jewish life in Germany under Hitler. Contains a 1-page folded promotional insert on green paper. In Yiddish. Includes music to the theme song, “Hope, Always Hope! ”. The author lived from 1882-1958 …. From a contemporary review in the “Observer”: ‘The Awakening’ is the story of a Jewish character in modern Germany who, because of the present regime, changes his whole philosophy of life. An internationalist and an assimiliationist, the chief character becomes a Jewish nationalist.” SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Cover worn at edges and spine, and partially separated at binding, otherwise in good condition. (Holo2-30-5), ok 2020/4

(FT) Soft cover, 24 pages, 12mo, 18 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Labor Zionism. Jews -- Palestine. Named Corp: Ak? Er-boy shule in Erets Yisroel K? Iryat sefer. Note(s) : Cover title. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide. (UCLA, Univ California, HUC) . Ex-library, minimal markings. Slight water stain damage to cover. Otherwise, very good condition. (amr-36-23)

(FT) Cloth, 8vo, 160 pages, illustrated, ports. , in Yiddish. First edition. The International Workers Order (IWO) was a Communist Party-affiliated insurance, mutual benefit and fraternal organization founded in 1930 and disbanded in 1954 as the result of legal action undertaken by the state of New York in 1951. At its height in the years immediately following World War II, the IWO had almost 200, 000 members and provided low-cost health and life insurance, medical and dental clinics, and supported foreign-language newspapers, cultural and educational activities. The organization also operated a summer camp and cemeteries for its members. (wikipedia 2012) SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish language --- reader--- children--- juvenile--- communisn. OCLC lists 2 copies (U of Michigan, Hebrew Union Coll) worldwide. Covers bumped, hinge and backstrip repair, inner binding tight, pages clean, overall good + condition. (YIDCHI-5-6)