Book details: POGROM GESHIKHTE 1919-1920: BAND 1, DI UKRAINISHE SHEHITE IN 1919
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Heifetz, Elias
POGROM GESHIKHTE 1919-1920: BAND 1, DI UKRAINISHE SHEHITE IN 1919
Imprint: Nyu York; Edukeyshonol Komite Fun Arbeter Ring, 1921
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 285 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. ‘History of the Pogroms 1919-1920; Book 1, The Ukrainian Slaughter in 1919.’ Published by the Educational Committee of the Workmen’s Circle in New York. An English version was also published the same year. The author, Elias Heifetz, was the chairman of the ‘All-Ukrainian Relief Committee for the Victims of Pogroms’, organized under the auspices of the Red Cross; this volume contains a litany of documentation taken by members of the relief commission, lawyers, and others in the Ukraine at the time; includes information in the appendix of pogroms in Ovruch, Proskurov and Felshtin as well as many small villages. Our volume contains endpage bookstamps of the World Jewish Congress (one in English, one in French, a third in Yiddish) ; Yiddish bookstamp remarks that this book was donated for European Jews who were the victims of Hitlerite and fascist terror. Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions - Ukraine. Pogroms - Ukraine. OCLC lists 26 copies. Other than WJC Stamps, very clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (EE-5-19)
Stock number:32324.