1st Soviet Yiddish edition.16mo (small) , 182 pages ; 18 cm. In Yiddish. From 1922 until sometime after 1937, the high proportion of Jews in the population of the rather small Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic actually made Yiddish one of the republic’s official languages, and the republic’s official seal even had the illustrious slogan adapted from Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto in Yiddish alongside Russian and Belorussian. For more on the translation of this work into Yiddish, see S Shklyar, G. On the Yiddish Translations of the Marxist-Leninist Classics (The Translation of the Communist Manifesto in Yiddish) . Afn visnshaftlekhn front [2nd series], nr. 5/6 (1934) , pp. 139-149. SUBJECT(S) : Socialism. Communism. OCLC: 19313121.With the scarce paper covers, often missing, here edgeworn at corners but with no text loss and the spine rebacked (new spine cover obscuring first letter in publisher's name at bottom of front cover). Institutional number penned on spine and margin of title page. Yiddish press archive stamp and period Yiddish owner's name on title page Good condition thus. Scarce, especially with covers. (YID-24-1C-'elx)