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. ” Rare collection of writings from elementary-age boys and girls from secular-Yiddish Chicago schools but published in Warsaw; this copy signed by all but one of the young authors on their essays! The young Chicago writers include: Bashe Slabadkin, Nate Shechter, Mendel Zilberman, Hanah Kamski, Menuche Ben-Ami, Dabe Izrael, Yitsak Rozenfeld, Shulamit Malkin, Tsiril Gordin, Khayke Nayman, Sarah Veksler, Zalman Imianatof, Blume Miler, Chaim Miler, Motl Rozenblum, and Chanah Gekhtler. “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 only 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, NLI, ) . Pages browning. Some light soiling to front wrapper. Overall Very Good Condition. Rare and important(YID-27-39)