Original Cloth. 8vo. 366, [2] pages. 21 cm. First edition. Volume one only. Meir Wiener (1893–1941) , “Yiddish and German writer, critic, and literary scholar. … Wiener’s Yiddish literary scholarship, most of which was posthumously collected in the two-volume set Tsu der geshikhte fun der yidisher literatur in 19tn yorhundert (On the History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century; 1945) , focused on the Haskalah authors Yisroel Aksenfeld and Shloyme Ettinger, as well as Mendele Moykher-Sforim and Sholem Aleichem (although he did write about the work of some of his contemporaries as well) . Placing Yiddish literature in the context of European cultural history enabled Wiener to apply the Marxist scheme of literary development to the Yiddish case. ” - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Yiddish literature - History and criticism. Yiddish literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Light wear to cloth, otherwise very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (BIBLIOG-35-15)