1st edition. In Russian. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Jewish Club 'Kunst' City of Tianjin.” The cover notes that this charter was “Approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Club members on December 16, 1941.” Presumably the extraordinary general meeting, and this resulting charter, were in response to increasing numbers of refugees arriving from Europe as Nazi forces continued their march east in 1940-1941. 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 similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but from a less important date–sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, though we were able to locate a single copy at NLI (Nr. 990021316000205171). Wear at staples, stray mark on cover, newsprint toning as expected, about Good Condition. Very Rare (Holo2-160-12)

(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 46 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Verso title page: Waksen, Waksen, Blimelech (Children’s Verses) . Bound in yellow cloth, letterpress printed, text in green ink, with decorative borders and illustrations throughout. Hyman Ehrlich (1908–1981) wrote children's verses, satirical works; his later volumes were devoted to more somber themes. The publisher, Kayor, was established in 1949, and in collaboration with the Di Dorem Afrikaner Yiddishe Kultur Federatzie “inaugurated the most productive era in local Yiddish publishing. South Africa became an important center of Yiddish creativity. From 1949 to 1962, Kayor, in association with the Kultur Federatzie, published six collections of essays and short stories, six volumes of poetry and one novel, together with all the journalism and most of the Yiddish and Hebrew occasional publications in South Africa. ” (EJ 2008; South African Literature) . Subjects: Authors, Yiddish. OCLC lists 15 copies. Previous protective jacket has left a tape residue line across the endpages; upper edge lightly soiled from dust; otherwise fine. Very good + condition. A beautiful book. (YIDCHI-6-20)

(FT) Cloth, 8vo. , 201 pages. Illustrated cover and title page by Yosl Bergner. In Yiddish. Inscribed by the author in 1973. Title on title page verso: Warshe Shel Matah. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Social life and customs. Spine lightly tanned. Very good condition. (HOLO2-84-9)

(ft) Paper-wrappers, 8vo, 112 pages, in Yiddish , illustrated, music. Inscribed by author. Content is divided in 2 parts: A. Lider and B. Fun Birbaydzan biz Bney Bra? . Arones was born 1897 in Dvinsk, Latvia, very passionate for theatre, was a founding member of Yiddish Artists Union 1917 in Kharkov, and helped to organize several theatres, was an actor at Yiddish State Theatre of U. S. S. R in Moscow and wrote several articles about the Yiddish theatre. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Outer-cover is worn, overall very good condition (HOLO2-89-73)

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 39 pages, 29 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as: “White City. ” Ephraim Auerbach (1892-1973) was a notable Yiddish poet, short story writer, and teacher. He contributed to a variety of Yiddish periodicals and published his poetry and stories. During World War I he joined the “Zion Mule Corps” (the Jewish Legion) founded by Joseph Trumpeldor and Vladimir Jabotinsky (JTA, 1973) . SUBJECTS: Poetry - Yiddish. Very minor edgewear. An excellent copy in Very Good Condition. (YID-23-17)

1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 416 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Issues 1-52. Title translates to “Literary Suppliment to the ‘Worker’s Friend. ” Arbeter Fraynd was a London-based weekly Yiddish radical paper founded in 1885 by socialist Morris Winchevsky. After the emigration of Saul Yanovsky to the United States in 1894, Woolf Wess became the editor in 1895. In 1898, Rudolf Rocker, a German non-Jewish anarchist who had immersed himself into the Yiddish radical culture of London's East End, became the editor of the paper. The paper was suppressed at numerous times by the British government (Wikipedia, 2018) . Prager p125. Also listed in John Patten’s Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography – Periodicals. ” SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature - England - Periodicals. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC: 174120785) . Binding repaired and spine rebacked. Paper brown but solid, occational margin wear, Overall good condition. Important. (YID-40-97)

8vo. 240 pages. In Yiddish. Illustrated. First edition. Title translates as, "A World in Flames: War Survival." SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 – personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Covers and front and top edges of some pages water stained, top of spine has a small tear, good condition. (HOLO2-6-16), ok 2020/4

Original Cloth. 8vo. 311 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title page verso: When Poland fell; Ven Poiln is gefaln. Inscribed by Joseph Opatoshu on title page in Yiddish, dated Junet 1943. “In the light of the destruction of practically all the great centers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, the desire to record what can be remembered of a life that may never return, before memory of the past and recent past is completely blotted out, can be readily understood. In this category can be placed Opatoshu's 'When Poland Fell, ' a collection of stories of the years 1939-40 when Poland fell and with it Polish Jewry” - American Jewish Year Book, 5704, pg 115. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Light soiling to cloth and outer edges, otherwise very fresh. Very good + condition. An important early Holocaust novel, here inscribed. (HOLO2-117-44)

1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 192 pages. The First Yiddish Book published in the most Jewish Town in America (Lakewood, NJ) . In Yiddish. Paper browning at edges, Very Good Condition. (kh-3-19) xx

Cloth, 8vo, 47 pages. 24 cm. In Yiddish Added title page: Jak przezylem niemiecka okupacje. SUBJECT(S): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Originally bound in flimsy and fragile paper wrappers, this copy has been rebound in paper wrappers with original illustrated cover mounted on front. Paper browning as generally found, but solid. Good Condition. Scarce (H-40-19)

1st edition. Original Wraps. 8vo. 176, [15] pages. 24 cm. In Yiddish. 'Resistance and Destruction in the Czestochowa Ghetto. ' Title page verso: Martyrologia I walka w getcie czestochowskim. Important history of the Czestochowa Ghetto, with maps, illustrations, and reproduction of documents. Published by The Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, written by Liber Brener based on the diary which he continued for a long time in the ghetto and in the camp. After the liberation, L. Brener restored his memories and verified and completed them with a series of German, Polish and Yiddish documents as well as testimony from other Jewish survivors of the Czenstochower ghetto. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Czestochowa. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland - Czestochowa. Ethnic relations. Jews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1939 - 1945 Czestochowa (Poland) - Ethnic relations. (OCLC)19307926. Ex-library with only pencil on title page. Other than slight browning of pages, this is in near fine condition. (HOLO2-117-47B-+)

Softbound. 8vo. [52] pages. 21 cm. Illustrated. First edition. Text in English, introduction also in Yiddish and Lithuanian. “A unique archival collection of 16 authentic posters from the Vilna-Vilnius Ghetto. ” Includes a time line of the Vilna ghetto with 3 black and white period photographs of streets. 16 high quality reproductions of posters with English translations and descriptive captions. “While the Gestapo dogs were searching for hidden Jewish children, the posters exhibited here, announcing the events of a living culture, were witness to the fact that the Ghetto inmates had not been turned into slaves. ” (Page [1]) Subjects: Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Intellectual life -- Posters -- Exhibitions. Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- History -- 20th century -- Posters -- Exhibitions. OCLC: 52880083. Light shelfwear, very good + condition. (HOLO2-107-38-XLDPABFCCVOR), Y 3/13

8vo; 238 pages; 24 cm. 1st edition. In Yiddish. Personal narrative of life in the Ghetto, including the authors' role as a leader in the resistance. 11 photo plates. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum keeps their copy of this book in their Rare Book Collection. Chip to corner of of front cover, no text affected, otherwise Good Condition. (YIZ-3-5A), ok 2/2021

Cloth, 8vo. , 87 pages. In Yiddish. Frontispiece picture of author. Biography for children of Vladimir Medem, a famous activist and leader in the Bund in Poland, and for which many schools and institutions were named. Illustrations by Chaim Gross. Gross (1904–1991) was a “ U. S. Sculptor. A native of Kolomea, Galicia, Gross went to the United States in 1921. Supporting himself by selling fruits and vegetables, he attended night classes at the Educational Alliance Art School in Manhattan, and then went on to study for four years at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He supported himself by his art from the time he joined the New York Public Works of Art Project in 1933. Gross taught at the New School of Social Research for 40 years and at the Educational Alliance Art School for 68 years. Gross made sculptures for public institutions, including the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. He wrote the book: The Technique of Wood Sculpture (1957) . He produced a large number of works in different media – wood, stone, bronze, pen and ink, and water color – but his contributions to wood sculpture are the most outstanding. The forests of the Carpathian mountains near his birthplace first taught him the qualities and potentialities of wood. Gross used more than 80 exotic hardwoods in his work, his favorite being lignum vitae, an exceptionally hard South American wood. He never camouflaged or overpolished its surfaces and never disguised its colors but respected its texture and grain. Among his favorite themes were female acrobats and mothers playing with small children” (Werner and Saxena, EJ, 2012) . OCLC lists 45 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-4-11)

1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 124 pages. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Clouds over the Roof.” Holocaust-era publication of poetry by the great Itzik Manger, from the “worst period” of his life. Title page verso notes, “Clouds over the roof: songs and ballads” as well as "Copyright by Jacob Gladstone, New York." Isaac (Itzik) Manger (1901-1969) was a leading Yiddish poet, playwright and author. Born in Czernowitz into a Yiddish literary home–Manger’s father, Hillel, whose bohemianism and bouts of depression kept the family on the move, coined the Yiddish phrase literatoyre, a felicitous pairing of “literature” and “Torah”--the young Manger fled to Romania in WWI, where in 1918 he began to write Yiddish poetry.After the war Manger moved “to Bucharest, where he became a leading spokesman for the Yiddish secular movement in Greater Romania, wrote for the local Yiddish press, and did the lecture circuit, speaking on the ballad as well as on Spanish, Romanian, and Gypsy folklore.Manger was 27 when he arrived in Warsaw as a Romanian poet with thick, disheveled flowing hair, blazing eyes, and a lighted cigarette perpetually dangling from his lips. To the Yiddish literary scene of that city, Manger was an exotic newcomer. He would call this period (1928–1938) ‘my most beautiful decade.' It was by far his most productive.Manger granted interviews and published articles in Literarishe bleter; gave readings at the Writers Club, where he recited his poetry from memory; published Shtern afn dakh (Stars on the Roof; 1929), a meticulously edited volume of his verse; put out 12 issues of his own 4-page literary journal called Getseylte verter (Counted Words; 1929–1930) and filled mostly with his own manifestos, poems, and literary musings; invented a new genre, which he called Khumesh-lider (Bible Songs; 1935); rewrote the Purim megilah (Megile-lider; 1936); penned a personalized history of Yiddish literature from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century (Noente geshtaltn [Close Images]; 1938); published three more volumes of verse, Lamtern in vint (Lantern in the Wind; 1933), Velvl Zbarzher shraybt briv tsu malkele der sheyner (Velvl Zbarzher Writes Letters to the Beautiful Malkele; 1937), and Demerung in shpigl (Dusk in the Mirror; 1937). He also compiled Felker zingen (Nations Sing; 1936), an anthology of European folk songs; wrote Di vunderlekhe lebns-bashraybung fun Shmuel-Abe Abervo (Dos bukh fun gan-eydn) (The Amazing Life Story of Shmuel-Abe Abervo [The Book of the Garden of Eden]; 1939), a fictional autobiography in prose; witnessed the production of two plays, loosely based on Avrom Goldfadn’s work: Di kishef-makherin (The Witch) and Dray Hotsmakhs (Three Hotsmakhs); composed lyrics for the Yiddish cabaret and the fledgling Yiddish movie industry; crisscrossed Poland knowing very little Polish; and entered into a common-law marriage with Rokhl Oyerbakh. In January 1930, Manger was one of the four youngest initiates elected to the Yiddish PEN club. The other three were Yisroel Rabon, Iosef Papiernikov, and Isaac Bashevis Singer…. As a Romanian national, Manger was forced to leave Poland in 1938 and headed for Paris, where he eked out a living by giving lectures on French literature to Yiddish-speaking audiences. When northern France fell to the Germans in 1940, Manger headed south to Marseilles, and from there made his tortuous way to England. In London, he was befriended by the bookstore owner Margaret Waterhouse. Although Manger eventually became a British citizen, he would characterize his 10 years in England as the worst period of his life. A collection of poems, Volkns ibern dakh (Clouds over the Roof), appeared in 1942…. In March 1951….He married Genia Nadir, the widow of the poet Moyshe Nadir, and a jubilee committee chaired by the poet Mani Leyb published a beautiful edition of his Lid un balade (Song and Ballad) in 1952…..In 1958, Manger made his first trip to Israel, where he finally settled, found a new mass audience in both Yiddish and Hebrew, and died in that country….On 31 October 1968, the Itsik Manger Prize was established in Israel. His notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence are housed at the Manger Archive at the National and University Library in Jerusalem” (Roskies in YIVO Encyclopedia). SUBJECT(S): Yiddish poetry. OCLC: 11026090. Wrappers toning, Lacks large corner piece of blank rear wrapper, some toning to paper, otherwise Good Solid condition. (yid-43-12-+)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 24 cm. Third edition. In German. 'On the Rights of Citizenship of German Jews. ' A general history of German state law concerning German-Jewish subjects. Written by Paul Rieger (1870–1939) , a “German rabbi, scholar, and historian. Rieger, who was born in Dresden, served as rabbi to the Reform congregations at Potsdam (1896–1902) , Hamburg (1902–19) , Brunswick, and Stuttgart (1922–39) where he died. He published works on the terminology and technology of handicrafts in the Mishnah, Versuch einer Technologie und Terminologie der Handwerke in der Mischnah (1894) , and on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish history. His major work was his participation, in collaboration with his friend Hermann Vogelstein, in a massive work on the history of the Jews in Rome (Geschichte der Juden in Rom) , as the result of a prize competition sponsored by the Moritz Rapoport Foundation in Vienna in 1890.” - 2008 EJ. In the series: Das Licht, Heft 4. First published 1921 (second edition 1922) all by Philo Verlag. Subjects: Jews - Germany - History. Germany – Law – Jewish Communities. Heimatrecht. OCLC lists 19 copies of this edition. Light soiling to wraps, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (GER-43-37)

Publishers cloth. 4to. 78 pages. 27 cm. First edition. Illustrated by Note Kozlovski. Beginners Yiddish primer, with illustrated stories and word exercises, jokes and riddles. Published by Farlag Matones in New York, written by Sarah L. Liebert; “born in Poland in 1892 and immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. She was active in Jewish communal and cultural life in the New York and New Jersey areas, achieving perhaps greatest public recognition as president of the Sholem Aleichem Women's Organization. She was also a member of the National Council of Jewish Women. In the 1920s and 1930s she served as Supervisor of Jewish Education of the Council's Farm and Rural Department, an organization that responded to the needs of Jews living in the rural areas of New York and New Jersey without a central Jewish community on which to rely. In her position as supervisor of Jewish education, Liebert developed and disseminated Jewish educational materials in rural areas, contacted and trained itinerant Jewish educational teachers, organized Jewish educational classes, and helped new immigrants adjust to their new environment. … Sarah Liebert died in New York in 1955.” (Jewish Women’s Archive) Subjects: Yiddish language - Readers. OCLC lists 5 copies (DLC, Indiana, Harvard, HUC, UT Austin) . Boards lightly soiledbinding starting, light pencil marks scattered throughout. Otherwise fresh. Good condition. (YID-16-49)

Softcover, 12mo, 16 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) ; Jews -- United States -- Education. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Cornell) . Covers not attached to binding. Lightly stained pages. Light staining on cover. Otherwise, good condition. (Heb-28-8)

(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 231 pages. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Book Three (Giml) in the series “Romanen, dertseylungen, legenden un v? Under mayses” containing four volumes of Ignatoff’s writings. “Wondertales of Old Prague”; romantic fairy-tales about the hero Berl Prager, who experiences adventure as a follower of Rabbi Loew; written by David Ignatoff, with twenty-six illustrations by Benjamin Kopman. “David Ignatoff (1885–1954) , Yiddish novelist and dramatist. Born in the Ukraine, Ignatoff was active in the revolutionary movement in Kiev (1903–06) before leaving for the United States. In 1907 he helped to found the literary group Di Yunge. ” (EJ 2008) “Benjamin Kopman (1887-1965) , American painter, lithographer, etcher and illustrator, Benjamin Kopman came to the United States from Russia in 1903. He studied art at the National Academy of Design, Washington, DC. , and held his first one man show in 1912 at the Scott Thurber Gallery in Chicago and the Macbeth Gallery in New York City. During the following years, Kopman exhibited at such major institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, La Napoule Art Foundation, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public collections that today include Kopman's original prints and paintings are the Carnegie Institute, Colgate University, Brooklyn Museum, University of Michigan and the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. ” (EJ 2008) . This deluxe edition differs from the first edition in that it is undated, has a slightly different gilt lettering on the cloth, has two alternate illustrations at front, and is printed on fine uncut paper. Subjects: Jews - Czech Republic - Prague - Fiction. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide, combined, of the first and deluxe edition (does not distinguish between them) . Yiddish literature. Hinges starting, faint institutional stamps on endpage, otherwise fine. Good condition. (ART-18-3A)

(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 231 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Wondertales of Old Prague”; romantic fairy-tales about the hero Berl Prager, who experiences adventure as a follower of Rabbi Loew; written by David Ignatoff, with twenty-six illustrations by Benjamin Kopman. “David Ignatoff (1885–1954) , Yiddish novelist and dramatist. Born in the Ukraine, Ignatoff was active in the revolutionary movement in Kiev (1903–06) before leaving for the United States. In 1907 he helped to found the literary group Di Yunge. ” (EJ 2008) “Benjamin Kopman (1887-1965) , American painter, lithographer, etcher and illustrator, Benjamin Kopman came to the United States from Russia in 1903. He studied art at the National Academy of Design, Washington, DC. , and held his first one man show in 1912 at the Scott Thurber Gallery in Chicago and the Macbeth Gallery in New York City. During the following years, Kopman exhibited at such major institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, La Napoule Art Foundation, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public collections that today include Kopman's original prints and paintings are the Carnegie Institute, Colgate University, Brooklyn Museum, University of Michigan and the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. ” (EJ 2008) . OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide, combined, of the first and deluxe edition (does not distinguish between them) . Subjects: Jews - Czech Republic - Prague - Fiction. Yiddish literature. Light wear and fading to cloth, tape mark on spine, otherwise fine. Very good condition. (ART-21-4)

1st edition. 4to, [2]+ 11+ [3] +7 pages, 23 pages total. Illustrations throughout. “This Ghetto-Memorial Program is issued by the Education Department of the Workmen’s Circle to assist the Workmen’s Cirlce branches. Parent’s organizations, as well as other Workmen’s Circle groups to present interesting and educational programs for their membership. The program may be given as a tribute to the memories of the martyrs of the ghettos in the month of April, or as a program in conjunction with ‘Jewish Music Month.’ The program was compiled by the well-known singer and author of ‘The Treasury of Yiddish Folksongs,’ Ruth Rubin, and is also available on tape.” (from book) Songs and sheet music throughout. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. History. Songs and music. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. OCLC: 6757708, oclc lists 9 copies worldwide. Slight wear to cover, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-46-ABZ)xx; 1st edition. Original stapled wrappers, 4to, [2] + 11 + [3] + 7 pages, 23 pages total. Illustrations throughout. “This Ghetto-Memorial Program is issued by the Education Department of the Workmen’s Circle to assist the Workmen’s Circle branches. Parent’s organizations, as well as other Workmen’s Circle groups to present interesting and educational programs for their membership. The program may be given as a tribute to the memories of the martyrs of the ghettos in the month of April, or as a program in conjunction with ‘Jewish Music Month.’ The program was compiled by the well-known singer and author of ‘The Treasury of Yiddish Folksongs,’ Ruth Rubin, and is also available on tape.” (from book) Songs and sheet music throughout. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. History. Songs and music. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. OCLC: 6757708, oclc lists 9 copies worldwide. Slight wear to cover, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-46-ABZ)xx

Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. x, 261 pages. Volume 4 of the Wiener Library Catalog series of books on the Holocaust. We have found this to be an excellent reference work; we keep 1 in the shop for our use. Light wear, Very Good Condition (HOLO2-75-7)

1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 63 pages ; 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates into English as, “13th Annual Student Contest [of the Congress for Jewish Culture for Elementary and High Schools in Argentina]” “The Congress for Jewish Culture (also known as the World Congress for Jewish Culture or, in Yiddish, der Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur-kongres) is a secular organization founded in 1948 to promote Yiddish culture throughout the world. Individuals active in the founding of the organization included Yiddish writers and intellectuals such as Shmuel Niger, Chaim Grade, Avrom Reyzen, Shmerke Kaczerginski, and Pinkhos Schwartz. At its founding, the society had offices in New York City, Buenos Aires and Paris. ” (Wikipedia, 2016) OCLC lists only 1 holding worldwise (Library of Congress) . Cover is stamped and fading but overall in very good condition. (SPEC-42-18)

8vo. 264 pages. In Yiddish. Photograph illustration plates. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish actors – biography; Mansdorf, Yaacov, 1902-1955. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Pages yellowed, water stain on top edge, good condition. (RAB-13-14)

Original wraps. 4to. 4 pages. 30 cm. Second edition. Words in romanized Yiddish; full text in Yiddish on p. [4]. Front portrait of Bialik. Yiddish song by the famous poet Bialik. First published 1916. “Bialik composed his sea poems ('Yam lider') in Yiddish in 1908 and published them in a Zionist-oriented anthology just before his first visit to Eretz Yisrael in 1909. The small cycle of three pseudo-naive poems was defined by the poet as a translation from the prominent medieval poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. However, this cycle of poems is, in fact, a free adaptation of diverse motifs from Halevi, imbued with contemporary colours and revealing Bialik's intimate secrets. … Bialik wrote these Zionist poems ('Yam lider') in the language of the Jewish masses, telling his ideological adversaries in an indirect and subtle way that if he turns to the writing of poems in Yiddish, it is merely for ideological purposes, and not because he agrees with their credo. Indeed, the role of these poems in many Zionist circles has been long acknowledged. ” (Khulyot; Journal of Yiddish Research; No. 8 Winter 2003) . Subjects: Songs, Yiddish -- United States. OCLC lists 5 copies of this edition. Institutional marks on wraps, light pencilling throughout, lightly soiled wraps, otherwise fresh. Good - condition. (MUSIC-3-40) Xx

First English edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 46 pages, illustrations, 22 cm. Translation of: Rok W Treblince. Jankiel (Yankel or Yaakov) Wiernik (1889-1972) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp uprising. Wiernik was interned in the Warsaw ghetto and was deported to Treblinka in August 1942. He worked there as a carpenter, building gas chambers, observation towers, etc. Describes the camp, the arrival of transports, methods of killing, and the cruelty of German and Ukrainian guards. Wiernik and a few other prisoners escaped from the camp and also killed some guards in August 1943. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943, Wiernik wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation titled A Year in Treblinka consisting of his experiences and eyewitness testimony of a Sonderkommando slave worker at a Nazi secretive death camp responsible for the annihilation of anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 innocent victims. Following World War II Wiernik testified in the Ludwig Fischer's trial in 1947, [and] the Eichmann Trial in 1961….Wiernik published Rok w Treblince (A Year in Treblinka) in 1944 as a clandestine booklet printed through the efforts of Jewish National Committee (Zydowski Komitet Narodowy, ZKN), Bund (underground organisations of the remnants of Polish Jews) and Polish Council to Aid Jews Zegota by means of an underground printer organized by Ferdynand Arczynski. The circulation was estimated by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as 2,000 copies. It was sent through Polish underground channels to London, translated into English and Yiddish and printed in USA by American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland” (Wikipedia, 2016). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. Treblinka (Concentration camp) . OCLC: 233992530. Light toning, Very Good Condition. Centrally important period documentation by an eyewitness (H-17-1B)

1st edition. 1st printing of any of pioneering Yiddish Theater producer David Kessler’s productions. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 46 pages, Includes illustrations & portrait of Kessler ; 22 cm. In Yiddish with English Cover and cast list. English cover title is “Everywoman in her Quest for Love. ” Translation of Brown’s popular period morality play, “Everywoman. ” “Produced at the David Kessler Second Avenue Theatre by David Kessler. ” “fun Valter Braun ; iberzetst fun Henri M. Gastvirth ; oygefihrt ... Fun Deyvid Kesler. ” David Kessler’s 2nd Avenue Theatre “opened on September 14, 1911 and was the first of the Yiddish theatres to open along the ‘Rialto’. Many important Yiddish artist’s served their apprenticeship and gained experience in their art under the infuence of David Kessler; among these were Maurice Schwartz, Bertha Gerstein and Celia Adler. He also established standards for acting and taste for better plays among actors and public. Kessler’s Theatre also screened movies and is listed in the 1914-1915 edition of American Motion Picture Directory. …In 1924 an ailing Thomas Adler appeared in Gordin’s ‘The Stranger. ’ It was his final performance and two years later the theatre was used for his funeral service. An estimated crowd of between 150, 000 and 200, 000 packed the street to view the cortage as it made its way along the Lower East Side – pausing briefly at each of the Yiddish theatres” (cinematreasures-org 2015) . SUBJECT(S) : American literature -- Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists only 1 copy worldwide (NYPL) . Spine label, light wear and sunning, otherwise Very Good Condition. (women-4-2)

Tel-Aviv, Hamenora, 1965. Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 13 pages, 18 cm. Primarily in Yiddish, with added English title page and non-Yiddish titles listed in their language of publication. Subjects: Brownstone, Ezekiel A. M. , 1897- --Bibliography. Very Good Condition. (CT-12)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 435 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Added title page: Eastern European Jewry; historical studies. Collection of essays, on the subjects of the Council of the Four Lands, Approbations, the Khmel’nyts’kyi uprising (gzeyres takh vetat) , the Ickowicz Brothers, etc. By Israel Halpern (1910–1971) , “Israeli historian. Halpern was born in Bialystok, Poland, emigrated to Erez Israel in 1934, began his teaching career at the Hebrew University in 1949, and became professor in 1963. His main interest was the history of East European Jewry, particularly pinkasim (‘registers’) . His publications include Pinkas Va'ad Arba Ara? Ot (‘Minutes of the Council of the Four Lands, ’ 1945) ; Ha-Aliyyot ha-Rishonot shel ha-? Asidim le-Ere? Israel (‘Early ? Asidic Immigration to Palestine, ’ 1956) ; and Takkanot Medinat Mehrin (‘Moravian Community Enactments, ’ 1952) . He also edited Sefer ha-Gevurah (3 vols. , 1941, 19512) , a historical-literary anthology of Jewish self-defense and martyrdom, and Beit Yisrael be-Polin (2 vols. , 1948–54) , a collection of essays on Polish-Jewish history. Halpern took a leading part in the work of the Israel Historical Society, and was coeditor of the journals Zion and Shivat ? Iyyon, publications devoted to the history of Zionism. “ (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Jews - Europe, Eastern. Light wear to edges of jacket, otherwise very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (EE-5-29)

1st edition. Original illustrated wraps. Folio. 11 pages. 35 cm. In Yiddish and English, captions in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian. “We present six pages from various chapters of the Album –‘Jerusalem of Lithuania in pictures. " With 27 illustrations, of various facets of Jewish Vilna (the Gaon, courtyard scenes, war refugees, partisans in the ghetto) . With a brief introductory piece (Yiddish, and English) requesting for contributions to the upcoming Album to be submitted, in the form of photographs of Vilna or subscriptions. The complete work appeared in 1974 with the title “Jerusalem of Lithuania”, edited by Leizer Ran. Subjects: Jews - Lithuania - Vilnius - Pictorial works. OCLC 970933020. Wraps lightly soiled, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (YIZ-15-21), ok 2/2021

4to; 270 pages; 29-37 cm. An outstanidng photgraphic memorial to the Jewish Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania. " with well over 1000 photos and facsimiles PER VOLUME. Lacks folded map in pocket in Vol I, which is often missing. Title and all text and captions in Russian, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Includes indexes. An excellent resource, even lacking the third volume. OCLC 970933020. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition. (YIZ-12-15B), MP

8vo; 515 pages; Paris, Published By the Author?, 1948. 1st Edition. Paper-wrappers, 8vo, 515 pages. 25 cm. "Aroysgegebn durkn Yidishn natsyonaln arbeter-farband in Amerike un Yidishn folks-farband in Frankraykh. Now a classic and oft-cited work on resistance in the Vilna Ghetto. Includes large (18" x 30") fold out map montage at rear, as well as many photos, charts (1 folds out) & illustrations. Also includes an added title page in French: "Lutte et chute de la Jerusalem de Lithuanie; histoire du ghetto de Vilna. " Page 482 is missing a piece, edgewear to cloth, spine repaired. Otherwise very good copy. (Holo2-83-48) Wear to paper wrappers, paper browning by not fragile, Good Solid Condition.

Original Cloth. 4to. 104 pages. 31 cm. First edition. Words in Yiddish and romanized Yiddish with English paraphrases. Collected by Sarah Pitkowsky Schack; piano arrangement by Ethel Silberman Cohen. Contents: Schlof mein vo¨gele - A maaseh - Schlof mein kind - Meirke mein kind - Yossel un zlatte - Wos-ze willstu? - Yome, yome - A ma¨del in die johren - Lomir sich u¨berbeten - Geh ich mir spazieren - Ho¨r nur du scho¨n ma¨dele - A liebe zu spielen - Fohrt der chossid'l - Meirke mein suhn - Die mezinke a¨usgegeben - Bin ich mir a schneider'l - Neht a Schneider - Mit a nodel, ohn a nodel - Yoshke, yoshke - Ich bin a bal-agoleh - Sol ich sein a rov - Geht a goy in schenck'l herein - Cheder lied - Dem milner's thra¨ren - Hamavdil - Af bri - Burikes - Orem is nit gut - Jamele - Ho¨r nor reb todros - Esther die gabbete - A chazan a¨uf shabbos - Mai komashma lon - Oi der rebbentu - Unser rebbentu -- Wos lernt a klein ju¨ngele? - A ganevoh - Der rebbe elimelech - Ich kumm jetzt vun mein zadik -- As moshiach wet kummen - Der eisenbahn - Zum rebben well ich fohren - Der philosoph - Amol is gefohren a¨uf'n yam - Zie tut krawiec miescka? - Wos wet sein vun dem rebben? - L'chayim rebbe - Zu kennt ihr denn dos land? - Wenn vun alle teichen - Die alte kasho. Subjects: Folk songs, Yiddish. (music-2-33)

Softbound. 8vo. 161 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In English, with ten page summary in Polish; Yiddish and Polish examples throughout. Authors abstract: “In our study we have collated a list of corresponding Yiddish and Polish proverbs, arranged by subject-matter and thus allowing the investigation of cultural influences between Jews and Poles. We have also analysed any language influences found in Polish and Yiddish proverbs - this section was intended as a contribution to broader linguistic research, which should also take into account the spoken language as well as Polish and Yiddish literature. As a result of a thorough study based on the corpus of proverbs examined we came forward with a new attempt at the definition of the proverb as well as at classification methods. We have also defined what equivalent (or corresponding) proverbs are. Further, we have analysed the corresponding Yiddish and Polish proverbs and established the areas of cultural influences, which are manifest in them. We hope that we have thus shown that proverbs are a very good basis for investigating influences of languages and cultures. ” Subjects: Proverbs, Yiddish. Proverbs, Yiddish - History and criticism. Proverbs, Polish. Proverbs, Polish -- History and criticism. Proverbs, German. Ignaz Bernstein. Jiddisch. Light wear to wraps, overall very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (EE-4-38), Tom 12/12

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 424, 78 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Long inscription by author. English title page: Jewish music in Poland between the two World Wars. With 78 page section of songs and choruses, chiefly unaccompanied, with Yiddish and romanized Yiddish. Published for the World Federation of Polish Jews. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Music - History and criticism. Songs, Yiddish. Music - Poland - History and criticism. Very Good+ condition. (EE-3-13)

(FT) Softcover, 8vo. , 55 pages. In Yiddish. “Jewish Children: Back to Life”. A publication by the Jewish Labor Committee describing the activities of the organization to help Jewish children after the war, with programs, Summer camps, schools, and children’s houses. Includes portraits of children and statistics about Jewish children in Europe before and after the war. Illustrated with many black and white photographs throughout. SUBJECT(S) r: Jewish children. World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief. World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. Child welfare -- Europe. International relief. Jews -- Charities. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (YID-15-1xx)

Original paper wrappers, 4to, 180 pages; 29 cm. With errata slip present. In Yiddish. All three authors were survivors; published amid the rubble of post-war Poland as Jewish life was being rebuilt there. Not the more common 1946 work of the same title with far fewer pages and different editorship. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature -- Poland. OCLC-Worldcat lists 11 copies worldwide. Light wear, Very Good Condition (Holo2-125-42)

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

First edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Early post-Holocaust title, translates as "Jewish Children Back to Life. " Dr. Emanuel Pat was a well-known Yiddish journalist and cultural activist of the early twentieth century, who played a not insignificant role in strengthening Jewish education and Yiddish culture in New York's Jewish community. SUBJECTS: Jewish children. World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief. World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. Child welfare -- Europe. International relief. Jews -- Charities. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Room. Ex-library with only some pencil markings. Very Good Condition. (YID-27-15)

Original Wraps. 8vo. XIII, 357 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Yiddish with added title page and table of contents in Polish and English and some text in Polish. Shriftn fun Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut; band 9; Filologishe shriftn; 5. Folklor Zydowski; Jewish folklore. Dedicated to the memory of Y. L. Cahan. “Cahan edited the fifth volume of YIVO’s Filologishe shriftn (Philological Studies) devoted to Yiddish folklore, which appeared posthumously in 1938, dedicated to his memory. ” - YIVO Encyclopedia. “The most enthusiastic and prolific zamlers were those who had been recruited by the Ethnographic Commission, known after 1930 as the Folklore Commission. In its first year, this part of the institute operated under the joint sponsorship of the An-ski Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society. By 1929, the members of 163 zamlerkrayzn (collectors circles) had sent more than 50, 000 copies of proverbs, folktales, and folk songs to YIVO. The analysis and publication of this material proceeded more slowly, in part because the leading folklorist, Y. L. Cahan, was living in New York. Cahan’s visit to Vilna in 1930 spurred work, but the fruits of the zamlers’ labor appeared in print only in 1938 as Yidisher folklor (Yiddish Folklore) . ” - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews - Folklore. Folk literature, Yiddish. Folk songs, Yiddish. Folk literature, Yiddish. Folk songs, Yiddish. Jews. Backstrip absent, binding split. Light soiling to wraps. Good - condition. (YID-21-9)

8vo. 303 pages, illustrated. First edition. In Yiddish. Includes English translation of title on copyright page: "The Jews of Johannesburg. " Dustjacket worn but present, otherwise very good condition. (ComHist-15-9A), ok 2/2021

Nyu York: Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut [YIVO], Historishe Sektsye, 1942. Cloth, 8vo, 308, 338 pages. Includes illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits, etc. 24 cm. In Yiddish. Includes added title page in English: "The Jews in France: studies and materials. " Includes abstracts of articles in English at end of vol. 2 on pages 330-337. Also includes bibliographical references and index. Very Good Condition. (ComHist-15-7) Xx, ok 2/2021

1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, 4to; 342 pages; In Yiddish. With lots of illustrations and detailed index. Light wear, Overall Very Good Condition. (YIZ-5-8)xx, ok 2/2021

8vo. 424 pages. In Yiddish. First edition. Inscribed. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – United States; Immigrants – United States; United States – emigration and immigration. Historical study of ethnic minorities in American history, with primary emphasis on American Jews, published in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and in the year of the founding of Israel. A little shelf wear, good condition. (HEB-3-11)

1st edition. Original cloth. 4to, 284+ [1] pages. Illustrations throughout. Yiddish. Title translates as, "Jews in the USSR. A Symposium." Nazi-era Soviet description the Soviet Jewish experience in the lead-up to the Holocaust and the great purges. Loaded with photos. Beautiful sepia photographic endpapers. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Soviet Union -- Political and social conditions. OCLC: 7431478. Bit of staining to covers, but attractive, excellent condition inside, far better than usually found, really an excellent Copy, Very Good Condition (YIZ-16-12A-ELX), ok 2/2021

st edition. Original boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. 304 pages. 24cm. Decorative inscription from Sutskever, the subject of the book. It is written in Yiddish and spirals off into a drawing self portrait. In Hebrew and Yiddish. Title translates to “The Lineage of a Song: In Honor of Avraham Sutskever. ” A commemorative book for Abraham Sutzkever on his seventieth birthday. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet who the NY Times referred to as the greatest poet of the Holocaust. (Wikipedia, 2018) . Edited by Dov Sadan (1902-1989) who was an Israeli literary critic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies and the Bialik Prize for Literature. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Sutzkever, Abraham, 1913-2010 -- Criticism and interpretation. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Royal Danish Lib. , NYBC, Haifa, Hebrew U. ) . A beautiful copy. Very Good Condition. (YID-30-24)

(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 282 pages, 25 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Schiper, Ignacy. Added title page: Yitzhak Schipper, evaluation and selected writings. Romanized record. "Bibliografyah shel kitve Dr. Yitshak Shiper" on pages 267-282. Other Titles: Yitzhak Schipper, evaluation and selected writings. Schiper (1884-1943) was a “historian and public worker. Schiper was born in Tarnow, Galicia. From his youth he was a member of the Po'alei Zion movement, and from 1922 of the General Zionists, holding various public positions in the parties and acting as their emissary. During 1922–27 he was a deputy in the Polish Sejm. After the establishment of the Institute of Jewish Sciences in Warsaw in 1928, he lectured on the history of Jewish economy. Schiper died in a German concentration camp near Lublin. Although his academic education was essentially a legal one, Schiper took an interest in historical research throughout his life. Within the group of Jewish historians which emerged in Galicia in the early 20th century, Schiper distinguished himself in the history of economics and of popular culture. Whether this was due to his social outlook or to his limited Hebrew education, he thought that the study of the spiritual history of the nation and its leaders had been exhausted; "the Sabbath-Jew with his extra soul" was already well known, and there arose a need, he felt, to become acquainted with the secular aspect of the nation's life. Schiper's first work, in the sphere of Jewish economics, was his original research on the beginnings of capitalism among the Jews of the Western world, which was also translated into Russian and Yiddish. Schiper then turned his attention to research into Jewish economy in Poland, at first during the Middle Ages and then during the modern era also. His principal works in this sphere are Studya nad stosunkami gospodarczymi Zydow w Polsce podczas sredniowiecza, and Dzieje handlu zydowskiego na ziemiach polskich. Of his studies on the history of culture, two of his works are of note: Kultur-Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Poyln beysn Mitlalter, which deals with the way of life of the Jews, and Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Teater-Kunst un Drame: fun di Eltste Tsaytn bis 1750, which deals with theatrical art and drama. Schiper also occupied himself with other historical questions, such as Jewish autonomy in Poland, but he dealt mainly with Jewry's relationship to the external world, using primarily non-Jewish sources. A historian of great intuition and imagination, he promoted and enriched historical research on Polish Jewry, though he did not always trouble to establish his ideas on a firm historical footing” (Halpern in EJ, 2007) . Hinge repair. Light wear to cover binding. Otherwise, very good condition. (Rab-40-5)

1st edition, original cloth, 4to. 826 columns, illustrations throughout. In Yiddish, foreword also in English. This book describes the city of Suwalk, Poland and the surrounding communities. Many black and white photographs are included, along with reproductions of important documents. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Poland -- Suwalki -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Ethnic relations. OCLC: 11558550, OCLC lists 29 copies worldwide. Some wear on corners, some marks on page edges, spine replaced, very good internally, Good Condition overall. (YIZ-19-12), ok 2/2021

1st edition. Later pamphlet protector over original illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 78 pages. Includes 16 great photos of activities at the institute--most are of kids in activities and most are on plates--as well as and 4 pages of tables. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "A Year of Work in the Yiddish Teachers-Seminar in Vilna. A Report, 1926-27." SUBJECT (S) : Teachers -- Training of -- Lithuania. Jews -- Education -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Medem, Vladimir, 1879-1923. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Harvard, JHU, UUtah, YIVO) . Pre-war Vilna Yiddish Educational institute stamp on title page, paper browning as expected, but very solid, attractive, Very Good Condition. (yid-26-21)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 502 columns, 28 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Jubilee Book. " Includes by-year roster of school participants, along with pictures and writings. "SUBJECTS: Jewish day schools -- Mexico -- Mexico City. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide (OCLC: 19313948) . Boards are very lightly worn. Overall very good condition. Ex-library with stamp from Colegio Israelita de Mexico. (YID-33-82-X)

First edition. Original wrappers featuring a beautiful illustration of Judah Maccabi. 8vo. 24 pages; text is partially vocalized. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Judah The Maccabi: A Historical Operetta in Two Acts. ” SUBJECTS: Judas, Maccabeus, -161 B. C. -- Drama. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Binding repaired. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-27-41)

(FT) Cloth with illustrated paper pasted on cover, 8vo. , 64 pages. In Yiddish. Title in English: Eugene Debs: A Story of a People. Illustrated cover by artist Note Kozlovski. Inscribed by former owner. Biography for children, of Eugene Debs. With photographs of Debs, his parents, and the home where he was born. SUBJECT(S) : Socialists -- United States – Biography. Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) , 1855-1926. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Edges of spine worn, paper rubbed away in the margins of some pages, effecting two of photographs. Small hole to one page, effecting text. Tear to one page, repaired with archival tape. Front hinge starting, back hinge repaired. Good - condition. Kazdan 58. (YIDCH-1-1)

1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 4to (tabloid format) , 24 pages each issue. Many issues include photos or illustrations on cover. Scarce complete run of this important survivor's monthly from post-war Poland.Yugnt-Veker, the Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper for young people, spanned a total of 27 years in various formats at different times. Here a very interesting vision of a postwar world of Jewish Socialism by the surviving rememnant in Poland and then Paris emerges, clearly expressing the Bund's position of Dokeit ("thereness"), remaining to build Jewish life within a socialist framework with other nationalities, on European soil in the immediate of the aftermath of the Shoah, rather than embracing Zionism and envisioning a new Jewish world in Palestine. Title translates as "The Youth Alarm." This Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper of the Tsukunft, the Bundist youth movement was edited, in succession, by L. Hechtman, J. Mendelsohn, J. Gutgold, & L. Blit. "Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft (Yiddish for future) was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union (or Bund). It was founded in 1910, and in 1916 it was officially called Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. Their newspaper was the Yugnt veker. In 1921 Tsukunft suffered a split, in which a pro-Communist group broke away and formed Komtsukunft. Tsukunft had applied for membership in the Communist Youth International two weeks after the Bund had applied for membership in the Communist International, but the second congress of the Communist Youth International had adopted criteria that were not acceptable for Tsukunft. In 1922 the organization changed its name to Yugnt-bund 'Tsukunft' in poyln ('Youth Bund 'Tsukunft' in Poland'). By 1924 only seventy active local groups remained in Tsukunft. However, by 1928 it had grown to 171 local groups. At the time of the sixth Tsukunft conference in 1936 (the last before the outbreak of the Second World War), the organization counted with 184 local groups. On the eve of the Second World War, the organization had 15,000 members. The Tsukunft took part in the Warsaw ghetto uprising as part of the Jewish Fighting Organization.Tsukunft was revived in Poland after the war. At the time it was technically a part of the Polish socialist youth organization OMTUR" (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jewish socialists -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jewish youth -- Jews -- Socialistes juifs -- Pologne -- Pe´riodiques. Jeunesse juive. OCLC: 55806297. Newsprint, so paper is brown, but for the most part very solid. What wear there is is at the extreme margins, with, no text loss (Y-28A)

1st edition. Paper Wrappers, 4to (tabloid format) , 16 pages each issue (a few double issues with more pages). Many with photos or Socialist Realism illustrations on cover. In Yiddish. Title translates as "The Youth Alarm." From the period of rapid growth of the Bundist Youth Group in the mid-late 1920s. This Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper of the Tsukunft, the Bundist youth movement. It ran from Dec. 1, 1922 until sometime in 1948, in various formats at different times. In addition to these issues from Warsaw, the journal was later published, after the War, in Lodz and Paris, and was edited, in succession, by L. Hechtman, J. Mendelsohn, J. Gutgold, & L. Blit. "Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft (Yiddish for future) was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union (or Bund). It was founded in 1910, and in 1916 it was officially called Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. Their newspaper was the Yugnt veker. In 1921 Tsukunft suffered a split, in which a pro-Communist group broke away and formed Komtsukunft. Tsukunft had applied for membership in the Communist Youth International two weeks after the Bund had applied for membership in the Communist International, but the second congress of the Communist Youth International had adopted criteria that were not acceptable for Tsukunft. In 1922 the organization changed its name to Yugnt-bund 'Tsukunft' in poyln ('Youth Bund 'Tsukunft' in Poland'). By 1924 only seventy active local groups remained in Tsukunft. However, by 1928 it had grown to 171 local groups. At the time of the sixth Tsukunft conference in 1936 (the last before the outbreak of the Second World War), the organization counted with 184 local groups. On the eve of the Second World War, the organization had 15,000 members. The Tsukunft took part in the Warsaw ghetto uprising as part of the Jewish Fighting Organization.Tsukunft was revived in Poland after the war. At the time it was technically a part of the Polish socialist youth organization OMTUR" (Wikipedia). Features beautiful use of initial letters; for example "D" (daled) shows Eugene Debs; "M" (mem) features Vladimir Medem. SUBJECT(S): Jewish socialists -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jewish youth -- Jews -- Socialistes juifs -- Pologne -- Pe´riodiques. Jeunesse juive. OCLC: 55806297. Newsprint, so paper is brown, but solid, not split at the binding. In any case, all wear is at the extreme margins, with, remarkably, no text loss whatsoever. Good Condition(Y-28) . Price is per issue

1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 4to (tabloid format) , 24 pages each issue. Many issues include photos or illustrations on cover. Important survivor's monthly from post-war Poland.Yugnt-Veker, the Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper for young people, spanned a total of 27 years in various formats at different times. Here a very interesting vision of a postwar world of Jewish Socialism by the surviving rememnant in Poland emerges, clearly expressing the Bund's position of Dokayt ("thereness"), remaining to build Jewish life within a socialist framework with other nationalities, on Polish soil in the immediate of the aftermath of the Shoah, rather than embracing Zionism and envisioning a new Jewish world in Palestine. Title translates as "The Youth Alarm." This Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper of the Tsukunft, the Bundist youth movement was edited, in succession, by L. Hechtman, J. Mendelsohn, J. Gutgold, & L. Blit. "Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft (Yiddish for future) was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union (or Bund). It was founded in 1910, and in 1916 it was officially called Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. Their newspaper was the Yugnt veker. In 1921 Tsukunft suffered a split, in which a pro-Communist group broke away and formed Komtsukunft. Tsukunft had applied for membership in the Communist Youth International two weeks after the Bund had applied for membership in the Communist International, but the second congress of the Communist Youth International had adopted criteria that were not acceptable for Tsukunft. In 1922 the organization changed its name to Yugnt-bund 'Tsukunft' in poyln ('Youth Bund 'Tsukunft' in Poland'). By 1924 only seventy active local groups remained in Tsukunft. However, by 1928 it had grown to 171 local groups. At the time of the sixth Tsukunft conference in 1936 (the last before the outbreak of the Second World War), the organization counted with 184 local groups. On the eve of the Second World War, the organization had 15,000 members. The Tsukunft took part in the Warsaw ghetto uprising as part of the Jewish Fighting Organization.Tsukunft was revived in Poland after the war. At the time it was technically a part of the Polish socialist youth organization OMTUR" (Wikipedia). The Jewish Historical Institute (Zydowski Instytut Historyczny) in Warsaw listed their INCOMPLETE run of postwar issues (even they didn’t have a complete run!) in their 2001 “Rare Periodicals and Books from the Zydowski Instytut Historyczny.” SUBJECT(S): Jewish socialists -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jewish youth -- Jews -- Socialistes juifs -- Pologne -- Pe´riodiques. Jeunesse juive. OCLC: 55806297. Newsprint, so paper is brown, but for the most part very solid. What wear there is is at the extreme margins, with, no text loss. Price Per Issue (Y-28C-'l)

1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 4to (tabloid format) , 24 pages each issue. Many issues include photos or illustrations on cover. Important survivor's monthly from post-war Poland.Yugnt-Veker, the Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper for young people, spanned a total of 27 years in various formats at different times. Here a very interesting vision of a postwar world of Jewish Socialism by the surviving rememnant in Poland emerges, clearly expressing the Bund's position of Dokayt ("thereness"), remaining to build Jewish life within a socialist framework with other nationalities, on Polish soil in the immediate of the aftermath of the Shoah, rather than embracing Zionism and envisioning a new Jewish world in Palestine. Title translates as "The Youth Alarm." This Bundist Yiddish Socialist bi-monthly newspaper of the Tsukunft, the Bundist youth movement was edited, in succession, by L. Hechtman, J. Mendelsohn, J. Gutgold, & L. Blit. "Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft (Yiddish for future) was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union (or Bund). It was founded in 1910, and in 1916 it was officially called Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. Their newspaper was the Yugnt veker. In 1921 Tsukunft suffered a split, in which a pro-Communist group broke away and formed Komtsukunft. Tsukunft had applied for membership in the Communist Youth International two weeks after the Bund had applied for membership in the Communist International, but the second congress of the Communist Youth International had adopted criteria that were not acceptable for Tsukunft. In 1922 the organization changed its name to Yugnt-bund 'Tsukunft' in poyln ('Youth Bund 'Tsukunft' in Poland'). By 1924 only seventy active local groups remained in Tsukunft. However, by 1928 it had grown to 171 local groups. At the time of the sixth Tsukunft conference in 1936 (the last before the outbreak of the Second World War), the organization counted with 184 local groups. On the eve of the Second World War, the organization had 15,000 members. The Tsukunft took part in the Warsaw ghetto uprising as part of the Jewish Fighting Organization.Tsukunft was revived in Poland after the war. At the time it was technically a part of the Polish socialist youth organization OMTUR" (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jewish socialists -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jewish youth -- Jews -- Socialistes juifs -- Pologne -- Pe´riodiques. Jeunesse juive. The Jewish Historical Institute (Zydowski Instytut Historyczny) in Warsaw listed their INCOMPLETE run of postwar issues (even they didn’t have a complete run!) in their 2001 “Rare Periodicals and Books from the Zydowski Instytut Historyczny.” OCLC: 55806297. Newsprint, so paper is brown, but for the most part very solid. What wear there is is at the extreme margins, with, no text loss (Y-28C-E)

1st edition, original paper wrappers. 16mo, 54 pages. In Yiddish. honors the “10ter Literarisher Konkurs far Yugntlekhe A"N fun Shmerke Katsherginski.” The series lasted at least 15 volumes into the 1960s (SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish literature – Argentina – periodicals. OCLC: 33634165. Good condition. (MX-20-4-+-’l)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 190 [2] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Young People. ” Bound in blue cloth with color-printed pictorial onlay. Black and white illustrations by Note Kozlovski. A large collection of short stories about life on the lower east side by Jacob Kreplak. Farlag Matones was founded by “the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. .... [and] as a publisher of children’s books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin” (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) . OCLC lists 28 copies. Subjects: Yiddish literature. Short stories, Yiddish. Backstrip lightly tanned, light wear to cloth, otherwise fine. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-6-8)

Original wraps. 4to. 5 pages. 31 cm. First edition. Yiddish (romanized) and English words. Originally published : Jos. P. Katz, 1916. Words by S. Frug ; music by A. Bernstein. Front portrait of S. Frug. Shimon Shmuel Frug (1860–1916) , “Russian poet. Frug was born in a Jewish agricultural colony in Kherson province, Russia; he was self-educated. He began his poetic career writing in Russian, published three volumes of verse, and was the first poet to treat Jewish themes in Russian verse. ... His Yiddish national songs were keyed to the needs of his generation. In his popular song "Zamd un Shtern" ("Sand and Stars") he argues with God, asking why He had only fulfilled half His promise to Abraham, making Jews as numerous as sand: but "where are the stars?" (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Songs, Yiddish - United States. Shimon Frug – Songs. Light soiling to wraps, light tear to edge, internally some soiling, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-3-20)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 247 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Songs of my Field: Memories of my Exhausted life.” Title on title page verso: “Espigas de mi campo.” Dujowich (1873-1951). SUBJECTS: Jews -- Russia -- Biography. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC: 12385305). Wear to boards. Pages browning. Otherwise Good Condition. (YID-40-96-L-'x)

First edition. Original paper wrappers in protective cardboard binding. 8vo. 49 pages. 24cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Sixteen: A Collection of End Compositions of Sixteen Graduate of the Shalom Aleichem Elementary School in Chicago.” Signed by the director of the School in Chicago, Y.M. Pomerantz, below his name following his introductory remarks to the books. A 21-word incription with the same pen, dated 1930 but with an illegible signiture, appears earlier on the same page. Rare collection of elementary-age writings from secular-Yiddish Chicago but published in Warsaw. “Yiddish schools in America were always supplemental schools, meeting several times a week after public schools. This was a major difference between the Yiddish schools in Poland which were, if chosen by the parents, the primary day school of the child, and the Yiddish schools in America which never developed a single Yiddish day school. On the political spectrum of the Yiddish cultural world in the 1920s and 1930s, the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute and its schools, and the Yiddish camp, Camp Boiberik, were more to the right, with less emphasis on socialism and more stress on the humanistic values that can be learned from traditional Judaism and applied to the modern Jewish experience. Founded in 1918, the Institute lasted until the 1970s, and was a national movement which attained its greatest support in the 1930s” (UTexas, 2017) . SUBJECTS: School prose, Yiddish -- Illinois -- Chicago. Jews -- Education -- Illinois -- Chicago. Jews -- Education. School prose, Yiddish. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Harvard, NLI, UChicago) . Pages browning. Some light soiling to front wrapper. Overall Very Good Condition. Rare and important(YID-27-39)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 461 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Memories and Accounts from the Russian Revolution. " Abba Lvovich Gordin (1887-1964) was an Israeli anarchist and Yiddish writer and poet. He opposed Communism and frequently wrote on the topic. Gordin experienced the February and October Revolutions and left Russia shortly thereafter. He writes about his accounts of those years in this memoir (Wikipedia, 2019) . SUBJECTS: Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives. OCLC: 967907711. Ex-library with usual markings. Binding is starting. Light wear too boards. Contents very good. (AMR-56-30-E-'lx)

Publishers cloth. 12mo. Pages. 19 cm. First Yiddish edition. “Jean Christophe”, translated from the French by K Fornberg. Book 1, Der beginen – 2, Der frih-morgen - 3 Yugend – 4, Der oyfshtand – 5, Di bafrayung. “Rolland’s most renowned work, by far, was Jean-Christophe, completed in 1912. The 10-volume novel is the original roman fleuve, a work that chronicles a sprawling history that gives an overall, often-critical view of society during its time. In 1915 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Romain Rolland ‘as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings. ’ Partly because of his outspoken defense of human rights, especially the rights of minorities, Rolland had a mass following among European Jews. In fact, the Yiddish translation of Jean-Christophe…. Was among the most popular Yiddish books ever-published and was the best-selling modern translation into Yiddish. ” (Yiddishkayt.org; Romain Rolland) Subjects: Yiddish literature - Translations from French. French literature - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. First volume in fine condition, remaining volumes with lightly soiled and aged cloth, volume four cloth quite soiled; all volumes internally very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (YID-16-16)

Original printed boards. 8vo. 60 pages. 23 cm. Second edition. In German, with some Hebrew. 'Return to the Torah? ; A Request to Young-Israel'. First published 1911, Frankfurt. Published by the Agudas Yisroel. Addressed to the youth zionist movement. Written by Dr Wilhelm (Zev) Freyhan, a leading member of the Jewish community of Breslau, and one of the original founders of Agudat Israel at the Kattowitz Conference of 1912. Subjects: OCLC lists 4 copies of this edition (Univ Bremen, Univ Hamburg, Natl Libr Israel, Danish Natl Libr) , none in the US, 6 total copies total of all editions. Light soiling to boards. Pages lightly aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-14)