1st edition. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 252; 318; 288; 304; 308; 244; 275 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Poland; Memoirs and Pictures”. The grand epic memoir of Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk (1887–1961) ; which he began as soon as arriving in New York in 1941, it took a decade to complete. “Trunk’s broad political, social, and cultural experiences informed his autobiographical epic Poyln, a study of the decline of the upper strata of Polish Jewish society and the rise of a new secular Jewishness embodied in folklore, Yiddish literature, and the Bund. This work, his crowning achievement, focused almost entirely on the multifaceted collectivity of Polish Jewry, while relegating his personal story and inner struggle to the sideline. ” (YIVO Encyclopedia) . Trunk was the chief archivist of YIVO at the time of his death, and was considered, in an obituary published in the New York Times, “one of the leading historians in the United States on the destruction of European Jewry during the Nazi era. ” Seven volume set, bound in green cloth with gilt title. Subjects: Authors, Yiddish - Poland - Biography. Jews - Poland - History. First volume cloth heavily worn with previous owners bookstamp, otherwise very clean. All other volumes have minor shelf wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YIZ-15-9), ok 2/2021