Original Cloth. 4to. 203 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In German. 'Ancient Hebrew Literature and its afterlife in Jewish Hellenism. ' with 68 illustrations throughout. Opens with a discussion of Spinoza, Herder, and Uriel da Costa; touches on the literature through archaelogical sites, etc. In the series: Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, Bd. 21. The author Johannes Hempel (1891-1964) was a prominent protestant theologican and professor of biblical literature in the Weimar era; he joined the Nazis in 1933 and was a member of the Institute for Research and elimination of Jewish influence on German church life (Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben) , and served as a war chaplain on the eastern front. He served as a Lutheran pastor after the war, and resumed as a professor in 1955 at Gottingen. With the bookplate and signature (dated 1949, Berlin) of Steven S Schwarszchild (1924-1989) , born in Frankfurt, his family escaped from Nazi Germany in 1939; “After receiving ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1948, Steven Schwarzschild moved to Berlin to serve as a rabbi for the Judische Gemeinde zu Berlin. He stayed in Berlin for over two years and in 1950 moved back to the United States. ” - LBI (Guide to the Papers of Steven S. Schwarzschild) . Subjects: Hebrew literature - History and criticism. Literatura Hebraica. Oude Testament. Littérature hébraïque - Histoire et critique. Littérature hébraïque - Histoire et critique. Hebrew literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Light soiling to cloth, title page previously reinforced with tape; otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-54)

Publishers cloth. 4to. 112 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. ‘The Jewish City of Lublin’. With 60 illustrations. Monograph of Lublin’s Jewish history by Majer Balaban (1877–1942) , “historian and educator. Majer Balaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic responsa. … Balaban completed his dissertation in 1904, on Jews in Lwów at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Zydzi lwowscy na przelomie XVIgo I XVIIgo wieku; 1906) . Thereafter he taught in secondary schools until the outbreak of World War I, when he served as a military chaplain in the Austrian army. While stationed in Lublin, he took advantage of the opportunity to prepare a short monograph on the history of Jews in that community. ” (YIVO Encyclopedia) . “His book on the Jews of Lublin, Die Judenstadt von Lublin (Berlin, 1919) , is a vivid survey of history of the Jews in that city. ” (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Jews - Poland. Lublin (Poland) . Poland; social history under capitalism, before 1945; social conditions; social groups; (movements of) national minorities; Jews. Binding repaired; light soiling to cloth, pages aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-31), Kre 1/13

Original Wraps. 8vo. 88 pages. 24 cm. First German edition. ‘Authorized German Translation’. The Jews in Romania; Lazare’s first hand account and denunciation of the terrible fate of Romanian Jews, after his visit to Romania in 1900 and 1902; originally published in L’Aurore, 1900. Lazare, (1865-1903) was famous for his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, his activity in French Anarchist circles, his correspondence with Ahad Ha’am, and his brief friendship and break with Theodor Herzl. Subjects: Jews - Romania. OCLC lists 19 copies. Light soiling and chipping to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (EE-5-13)

Hardcover, 8vo, 188 pages, 23 cm. In German. Series: His Die geistliche Lyrik der Juden; Variation: Wiener, M. ; (Meir) , 1893-1941. Geistliche Lyrik der Juden. SUBJECT(S) : Cabala. Jewish religious poetry. Weiner (1893–1941) was a “poet, novelist, and literary critic. Born in Cracow, Wiener received a traditional and secular education and was influenced by his tutor, Ben-Zion Rappaport…. Until his departure for the Soviet Union he wrote mostly in German, including Messias, a collection of mystical meditative elegies; Die Lyrik der Kabbalah, a selection of Hebrew religious poetry in free translation with introductory notes…. He attempted to define Jewish identity and destiny while vacillating between spiritual Zionism and Martin Buber 's teaching on the one hand, and social political radicalism and expressionistic trends in art and literature on the other. He probed deeply into traditional Hebrew poetry and Jewish mysticism and their human and religious significance for modern people in general, and the Jews in particular. His personal and ideological disappointments, lack of a sense of mission, and absence of a place in the intellectual life in Western and Central Europe, as well as his contacts with leftist circles in Berlin and Vienna, including Soviet Yiddish authors Leyb Kvitko and Der Nister, caused him to immigrate to the Soviet Union, where he concentrated his energy and talents on Yiddish literature. His main work there was devoted to the research and publications of the Jewish scientific institutes in Kharkov, Kiev, and Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s, where he also played an important role as counselor, editor, and teacher. He headed the Department of Yiddish Language and Literature at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and directed and participated in the editing of Yiddish literature ranging from folk-song collections and the anonymous comedy Di Genarte Velt, to the writings of Solomon Ettinger, Israel Axenfeld, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, and Sholem Aleichem. His editions have served as models ever since; his prefaces to these editions were collected along with additional articles and published in his book Tsu der Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Lite ratur in Nayntsentn Yorhundert…. Despite his declared allegiance to Marxist criticism, he had to defend himself in 1932 against critics who accused him of ‘dangerous deviationism. ’” (Shmeruk and Krutikov in EJ, 2007) . Tear to cover binding. Light wear to edges and corners. Light wear to binding. Very good condition. (Rab-44-3)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 91 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Future of the Jews. ' A controversial work on the economic position of diaspora Jewry. Werner Sombart (1863–1941) , “German political economist and sociologist. Born in Ermsleben, Sombart acquired a reputation through his work Der Moderne Kapitalismus (2 vols. , 1902, 1916) in which he traced the development of capitalism from the late Middle Ages. In 1917 he was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Berlin. He wrote two works on capitalism and the Jews: Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (1911; The Jews and Modern Capitalism, 1913, 1951) , and Die Zukunft der Juden (1912) which aroused considerable controversy. In Sombart's view, the Jews were the principal cause of the disruption of the medieval economic system and its replacement by capitalism. The Jews, he held, were foreigners and came up against the hostility of the guilds which controlled the commerce of the medieval cities. Consequently they sought to break away from the restrictive economic framework of city life and, by doing so, became the pioneers of international trade. In this way they helped to lay the foundation of the capitalist system. Sombart maintained that the Jewish intellect, 'concrete, stubborn, and systematic, ' was ideally suited to fostering a capitalist economy: 'When Israel appears upon the face of Europe, the place where it appears comes to life; and when it departs, everything which had previously flourished withers away. ' Such statements made for the ambivalent reception of Sombart's work among Jews at the time. Thus, while liberal Jews strongly criticized Sombart as an antisemite, others, particularly in the Zionist camp, praised him as a nonpartisan researcher and held up his theses as evidence of Jewish perseverance and as acknowledgement of the special contribution of the Jews. ” - EJ 2008. Subjects: Civilization - Jewish influences. Jews - Germany - Social conditions. Civilization - Jewish influences. Ethnic relations. Jews - Social conditions. Germany - Ethnic relations. Wraps bumped, slightly torn along backstrip, light soiling to outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-43-41)

No date (1942) . First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers with purple illustration of cover of “Pioneer Songs of Palestine. ” 5 pages; 13 x 8.5 cm. Holocaust-era order form and advertisement for 33 record album. Includes picture of album cover, reproduction of one of the songs from the album, and list of contents of the album. Features positive reviews by Dr. Curt Sachs, “Outstanding musicologist and noted authority on Oriental Music, ” Dr. Stephen S. Wise, prominent Reform rabbi and Zionist leader, and Sidor Belarsky, a Russian and Yiddish opera singer. Music compiled, edited, and arranged by A. W. Binder and Hebrew text and English adaptations by Olga Paul. “Use this convenient order blank today! ” SUBJECT(S) : Music, Palestinian music, Palestinian folksongs. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Some staining, particularly along right-hand side. One faint pencil mark that does not affect text. Good + condition. (zion-11-48)

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1968. Paper; 4to. 21 pages. Cover title in Yiddish on verso: Doktor-disertatsyes un magister-tezisn. Series: Guides to Jewish subjects in social and humanistic research: 2. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- History -- Bibliography. Judaism -- History -- Bibliography. Dissertations, Academic -- United States -- Bibliography. OCLC lists five copies worldwide (Yale, Southern Baptist Theol Seminary, JTSA, Upenn, U of Texas at Austin) . Ex-library with minimal markings. Some browning, soil, and edgewear. Good condition. (CT-9)

Original wrappers. 8vo. 260 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Documents of Crime and Martyrdom. ” A Montevideo-published Yiddish translation of Michal Borwicz’s “Dokumenty zbrodni I meczénstwa. ” “Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947. After emigrating to France in 1947, he directed the Centre d'etude de l`histoire des Juifs (Polonais) (Center for Research of the History of the Jews of Poland) in Paris until his death. ” (EHRI, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (OCLC: 10601885) . Pages are browning and brittle. Some chipping and edge wear. Otherwise good. (YID-40-61-L-'x)

1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. Approximately 32 pages each, 23 cm. In Yiddish withs some English advertisements. Title translates to “South Africa.” South Africa's most well-known Yiddish journal, published in Johannesburg from 1948-1991. Interesting period covered here, the tumult of the late 60s. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Periodicals. OCLC: 01800240. Very Good Condition.Price per issue (please specify) (YID-33-48A-EL)

Publishers cloth. 12mo. 92 pages. 19 cm. First edition. Volume two of the “The First Book” published by Joseph Wall, a Yiddish primer for young children. Includes 30 illustrations throughout the text. Joseph Wall was later a Yiddish teacher at the Sholem Aleichem Folkshul in the Bronx. Subjects: Yiddish language - Readers. Children's literature, Yiddish. OCLC lists three copies (HUC, Yale, Yiddish Book Center) . Cloth worn, with original pastedown faded. All pages soiled in margins from previous use, with light foxing throughout, and penciled writing on endpage. Fairly clean, and all text crisp. Good condition. (YIDCHI-6-22)

8vo. 203 pages. Fold out chart in back. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – statistics; Demography – Jews. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Cover and pages darkened, cover had been reattached, stamp on front cover, spine torn, Good condition. (HEB-2-10)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 127 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “The Clever Little Tailor. ” Bound in dark green cloth with color-printed pictorial onlay. Black and white woodcuts and historiated initials by Isaac Friedlender. Solomon Simon (1895-1970) was a prolific Yiddish writer, famous for his children’s stories and as a leading figure of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute. Farlag Matones was founded by “the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. .... [and] as a publisher of children’s books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin” (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) . Subjects: Children's stories, Yiddish. Backstrip lightly tanned, light wear to cloth, light soiling to a few edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YIDCHI-6-7)

(FT) Paper Wrap. Oblong book, 18 x 22 cm. 79 pages. Ills. In Yiddish. Katzeneleson was a Russian-born poet who lived in the Warsaw ghetto and later the Auschwitz concentration camp. This poem gives a shattering account of what he saw and expresses his horror and grief, his protest and helplessness. It is widely considered one of the greatest literary expressions of the tragedy of the Holocaust. English Title: Poem of the Murdered Jewish People. SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry. Small stain on front cover, bent corner on back cover. Pages and binding are in very good condition. (HOLO2-29-8) Xx

(FT) Publishers cloth. 4to. [80] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Bound in green cloth, printed on fine paper, text in green ink, with 14 full page block print blue color illustrations. With illustrated title page and frontispiece portrait of the author. This book contains 20 short pieces –some in verse and some in prose –about a little girl in a red dress and her adventures with various birds and small animals. Hebrew words and names are spelled phonetically. After Nochem Weisman’s death, a secular Yiddish school in Brooklyn was named in his honor. Subjects: Children's literature, Yiddish. Poetry. OCLC lists 8 copies. Light soiling to cloth, small tear at bottom of backstrip, outer edges lightly soiled, otherwise fine. Very good + condition. (YIDCHI-6-14)

1st edition. Original, beautifully illustrated boards. 8vo. 745 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The New Life. ” A complete 1st year of this important Yiddish monthly. Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. Lacks Zhitlowsky’s original 16 page prologue entitled “This program and the dissemination of the monograph “The New Life” and the title page of issue one. Boards fading and worn, but in tact; hinges starting. Internally Very Good with original illustrated boards. (YID-30-11)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 58 pages with 6 pages of ads. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The New Life. ” Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Very Good Condition. (YID-30-12)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 58 pages with 6 pages of ads. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The New Life. ” Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Some browning on wrappers. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-30-14)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 58 pages with 6 pages of ads. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The New Life. ” Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Some browning and chips to wrappers. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-30-16)

1st edition. Later boards. 8vo. 745 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The New Life. ” A complete 1st year of this important Yiddish monthly. Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Spine rebacked, lacks title page, and Zhitlowsky’s 16 page prologue (usually missing) , other weark but otherwise complete. Paper is actually in very good condition, Good Condition overall.

1st edition. Mixed period and later boards. 8vo. 745 pages; 550, 16, 24, 24, 24 pages; 690 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The New Life. ” The complete first three years of this important Yiddish monthly. Zhitlowsky, an immigrant socialist revolutionary, sought to synthesize socialism with nationalism as early as 1883. He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected. He maintained that one could remain identified with the Jewish nationality even if abandoning the Jewish religion. He urged the Jewish masses to participate in the class struggle as a national unit. Alone among the cosmopolitan Jewish socialists he favored national socialism. In 1897 he began publishing philosophical studies in Jewish history and a comprehensive program of action which later appeared in book form as Pisma o starom I novom yevreystvie ("Letters on Old and Modern Judaism, " 1907) . His main thesis was that national consciousness consists mainly of spiritual-cultural determinants and that these national characteristics can be maintained by the Jews in the future in the lands of their dispersion, just as they have survived the lack of territory or unity of language since the end of the second commonwealth. After emancipation of the individual the Jews as a group should be granted national self-government within the framework of the state along with other national minorities. His secularization of the national idea as opposed to those who saw the essence of Judaism in religion, and his optimistic view of the future of Judaism in the Diaspora, were the main underpinnings of his insistence on national cultural autonomy. Zhitlowsky was "in favor of the centrality of Yiddish in the national Jewish experience and labored toward the recognition of that language, and of those who lived out their lives in it, as one of the several cultural linguistic communities of Eastern Europe, and of the Western world as a whole" (Isaac Levitas, et al, in EJ) . Includes Zhitlowsky’s original, first volume, 16 page prologue entitled “This program and the dissemination of the monograph ‘The New Life. ’” Some internal binding repair, but solid, paper toning as expected but nice and clean, a Good, solid complete set. (YID-30-8)

1st edition. Original dramatic color illustrated boards, Small 8vo, 30 + [2] pages. Includes 7 dali-esque illustrations by Kotler. 21 cm. In Yiddish. “Yosl Kotler was a master of the stylized grotesque. He was also an extraordinarily accomplished draftsman, able to stretch, shrink and contort a line into an endless kaleidoscope of forms. Kotler is one of the great American artists of modern times, but has never achieved recognition as such. Perhaps because he worked almost exclusively in the Yiddish-speaking milieu, and mainly among Communist circles. Or because he spread his abundant talents in so many directions, including painting, illustration, cartoons, theater design, poetry, fiction, and puppetry. Kotler was fifteen and an orphan when he arrived in America in 1911. He thrived primarily as an illustrator and puppeteer, teaming up with Zuny Maud, an equally multi-talented fellow Bohemian, to create a cult puppet theater in 1925. Kotler was driving to Hollywood hoping to make a puppet movie when he died in a car crash in 1935. His funeral brought 10, 000 people onto the streets of New York. Author Herman Gold was another extraordinary Lower East Side character, described by memoirist Reuben Iceland as "the weaver of the weirdest, wildest word plays. " In other words, Gold’s stories and Kotler’s artwork are the perfect match” (Mazower, 2019) . "Andere arbetn fun dem zelbikn shrayber" (Other works by the same author) on page 32. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish poetry. Edgwear to boards, internally very clean, Good Condition Overall (Yid-41-96A-EXL)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 62 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates “Jewish Economic Life in Yiddish Literature.” Jakob Lestschinsky (1876-1966) was a Jewish statistician and sociologist who wrote in Yiddish, German, and English. He specialized in Jewish demography and economic history. SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- History and criticism. Jews -- Economic conditions. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide (OCLC:19311033). Wrappers are lightly edge worn and browning. (YID-33-3-JL-’xe)

(FT) Half Cloth, 8vo. , 115 pages. Portrait, facsimiles, photographs. In Yiddish. Yiddish translation of the Hebrew original: ha-Na? Ar Mosheh. (The Youth Moses – The Diary of Moses Flinker) Translated from the Hebrew by Yehiel Hofer, introduction by Dov Sadan and Shaul Ash. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. OCLC lists holdings worldwide. Very good condition in very good original illustrated jacket. (HOLO2-84-2)

New York: No publisher, 1954. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, pages 453-484, 23 cm. Primarily in Yiddish, with non-Yiddish titles listed in their language of publication. Imprint [i. E. Offprint] from "Dr. Herman Frank-geklibene shriftn, " (New York, 1954) Subject: Frank, Herman, 1892-1952 -- Bibliography. Very Good Condition. (CT-12)

Nyu York: [Aroysgegeben fun Dr. Y.N. Shteinberg bukh-komitet], 1961. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 16 pages. Offprint from "Yitshak Nahman Shtaynberg: der mentsh, zayn vort, zayn oyftu, 1888-1957," (New York, 1961). With stubs of later pages, as issued. In Yiddish. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide. Very Good Condition. (CT-13)

(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 64 pages , illustrated, in Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- children ---- juvenile--- poetry. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Light edgewear, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-19)

Buenos Aires: G. Kaplanski, 1928. Paper wrappers, 8vo. 208 pages. In Yiddish. Third volume of three. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Argentina -- Colonia Mauricio -- History. Farmers, Jewish -- Argentina -- Colonia Mauricio. Jewish Colonization Association. Alpersohn was an " Argentine farmer and Jewish writer. Alpersohn was born in Kamenets-Podolski, Russia. His father, Israel, was a shohet and melamed. In his youth Alpersohn was a maskil, writing Hebrew articles in the Jewish press. In 1891 he emigrated to Argentina and settled in Colonia Mauricio, the first agricultural colony founded by the Jewish Colonization Association (ICA) . From the very outset he wrote pamphlets in Yiddish under a pseudonym criticizing the ICA administration. After 43 years in Mauricio, he began to spend winters in Buenos Aires but remained on his farm during the summer. Alpersohn was a prolific writer. In his three volumes of memoirs ("The ICA and Its 30 Years of Colonization in Argentina") , novels, plays, stories, and newspaper articles, he described with much color the life of the Jewish farmers in the ICA colonies. He is considered one of the outstanding Yiddish writers of Argentina" (Zadoff, EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Many black and white photos throughout. Includes contents page. Slight yellowing on spine and cover, otherwise excellent condition. Pages uncut. (YID-11-1)

1st edition. Original illustrated publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 456 pages. 22 cm. Includes many photos. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Third Australian-Yiddish Almanac.” "Published by Jewish Cultural Centre & National Library "Kadimah" to mark its 55th Anniversary December 1911 - December 1966" (on title page verso). “ In the 2016 census, there were 21,175 Australians who identified as Jewish by ancestry, a decrease from 25,716 in the 2011 census, and 91,016 Australians who identified as adherents of Judaism, which is a 6% decrease on 97,355 adherents of Judaism in the 2011 census. The actual number is almost certainly higher, because an answer to the religion question on the census was optional and because Holocaust survivors, Haredi Jews or many non-practising Jews are believed to prefer not to disclose religion in the census. By comparison, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz estimated a Jewish-Australian population of 120,000-150,000 (not limited to adherents of Judaism), while other estimates based on the death rate in the community estimate the size of the community as 250,000. Based on the census data, Jewish citizens make up about 0.4% of the Australian population. The Jewish community of Australia is composed mostly of Ashkenazi Jews, though there are Jews in Australia from many other traditions and levels of religious observance and participation in the Jewish community…..The first Jews to come to Australia were at least eight English convicts transported to Botany Bay in 1788 aboard the First Fleet. About 15,100 convicts were transported by the time transportation ceased in 1840 in New South Wales and 1853 in Tasmania. It is estimated that of those who arrived by 1845 about 800 were Jewish. Most of them came from London, were of working-class background and were male. Only 7% of Jewish convicts were female, compared with 15% for non-Jewish convicts. The average age of the Jewish convicts was 25, but ranged from 8 to elderly….The first move toward organisation in the community was the formation of a Chevra Kadisha (a Jewish burial society) in Sydney in 1817, but the allocation of land for a Jewish cemetery was not approved until 1832. In 1830 the first Jewish wedding in Australia was celebrated, the contracting parties being Moses Joseph and Rosetta Nathan. Jewish immigration in the interwar period came at a time of antisemitism and the White Australia policy. The Returned Services League and other groups publicised cartoons to encourage the government and the immigration Minister Arthur A. Calwell to stem the flow of Jewish immigrants. Sephardi Jews first immigrated to Australia in the mid-to-late 19th century, and the community thrived for some twenty years, there was a Sephardic congregation, and some Sephardi families occupied important communal positions. Gradually, however, the Sephardi population declined, and the congregation was disbanded in 1873. A new Sephardic community also emerged in the post-war period. Previously, Mizrahi Jews were generally not permitted to enter due to Australia's White Australia policy. However, following the Suez Crisis in 1956, a number of Egyptian Jews were allowed to enter. Over the following years, overtures from Jewish communities led the government to drop its previous stance on entry of Mizrahi Jews. By 1969, when Iraqi Jews were being persecuted, the government granted refugee status to Iraqi Jews who managed to reach Australia….Hitler's ascent to power and the horrors of World War II also brought large numbers of refugees from central Europe. From the mid-1930s, Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne became the basis of a Reform community because of its newly arrived German members. The Temple's German-born rabbi played an integral role in promoting the movement and, in 1938, when visiting Sydney, he established Temple Emanuel. It also attracted many Jews from Germany and other parts of Central Europe, who arrived in Sydney prior to the outbreak of the war. The 1940s and 1950s saw the emergence of ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Hasidic communities in Sydney and Melbourne. The first Sephardic synagogue in Australia was founded in 1962. There had been at least two short-lived efforts to establish Reform congregations, the first as early as the 1890s. However, in 1930, under the leadership of Ada Phillips, a Liberal or Progressive congregation, Temple Beth Israel, was permanently established in Melbourne. In 1938 the long-serving senior rabbi, Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, was instrumental in establishing another synagogue, Temple Emanuel in Sydney. He also played a part in founding a number of other Liberal synagogues in other cities in both Australia and New Zealand. The first Australian-born rabbi, Rabbi Dr John Levi, served the Australian Liberal movement. In 2012, the first Humanistic Jewish congregation, known as Kehilat Kolenu, was established in Melbourne, with links to the cultural Jewish youth movement Habonim Dror. Later in 2012, a similar congregation was established in Sydney, known as Ayelet HaShachar” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Australia. Juifs -- Australie. Almanacs, Yiddish -- Juifs -- Almanachs OCLC: 122732918. OCLC lists 9 copies outside Australia. Some spotting to cover, some toning to paper, Very Good Condition. YID-43-10-LE-’x)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 135 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title translates as, 'Through Fire and Blood; Ghetto Pages'. Includes numerous firsthand reports from members of the Jewish National Committee in Warsaw, some with author attributions, of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the organizations involved, etc. With firsthand account, 'A year in Treblinka'. Published by the Representatives of Polish Jewry in America. 'November 1944'. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 - Poland - Warsaw. Poland - History - German Occupation 1939 - 1945. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland. OCLC lists 24 copies. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-118-4) xx

Publishers cloth. 4to. XXIV, 471 pages. 28 cm. Limited edition. In Polish. Number 32; limited edition of 1250 numbered copies. History of the Jews of Cracow. Volume one only, from 1304 to 1655. Reprint; originally published: Krako´w: Izraelicka Gmina Wyznaniowa; gl. Skl. W ksie? G. L. Frommera, 1912-36. Majer Balaban (1877–1942) , “historian and educator. Majer Balaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic responsa. … Balaban published hundreds of works in Polish, German, Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. His popular essays were featured regularly in the Jewish press. His work is largely descriptive, focusing on leading personalities, families, and religious movements and devoting considerable attention to material culture and daily life. In his local histories, for example, the topography of the Jewish quarter in various periods is described in detail. Among his many outstanding works is his two-volume history of Jews in Kraków (1931, 1936; Hebrew translation, 2003) , which remains the most detailed study of a leading Jewish community. ” (Yivo Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews - Poland - Krako´w - History. Jews - Poland - Kazimierz (Pulawy) - History. Krako´w (Poland) - Ethnic relations. Kazimierz (Pulawy, Poland) - Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 11 copies. Light shelf wear to cloth, overall clean and fresh. Great condition. (EE-4-8)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. X, 186 pages. 24 cm. First edition. “In February of 1903, in a small town in the southwestern part of the Russian empire, a peasant stumbled upon the corpse of 14-year-old Mikhail Rybachenko, bruised and covered with stab wounds, in a garden. The murder immediately fueled wild rumors that he had been killed by local Jews in need of his Christian blood to prepare their matzah bread. Panic rumors, grounded in sinister superstitions of Jewish sorcery and ritual murder, quickly spread to nearby towns. By April, they had hit Kishinev - a growing metropolis of 100, 000 inhabitants rife with the unrest of rapid expansion, ethnic rivalry, revolutionary agitation, and anti-Semitism - with full force. The resulting massacre left dozens dead, and hundreds wounded, maimed, widowed, orphaned, or homeless. This is the story of Kishinev. In this extensively researched book, Edward Judge examines these anti-Jewish riots, detailing their background, cause, and aftermath. He traces the evolution of the riots, analyzing the broader impact of imperial policies, urbanization, nationalism, population growth, and revolutionary activism upon the Jewish situation in Russia. Recounting the activities and attitudes of anti-Semitic agitators and Kishinev officials, the book examines the spiral of violence, the inaction of the authorities in the wake of the pogrom, the storm of indignation that followed the pogrom, and the efforts of tsarist officials to counter subsequent negative publicity. Easter in Kishinev also portrays the investigation of the disorders and the trials of the rioters and carefully considers the question of government responsibility for the outbreak of the pogrom. ” (Publishers Description) Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Moldova - Chisinau. Massacres - Moldova - Chisinau - History - 20th century. Antisemitism - Moldova - Chisinau - History - 20th century. Kishinev Massacre, Chisinau, Moldova, 1903. Antisemitisme. Pogrom Geschichte 1903 Chisinau (Moldova) - Ethnic relations. Very good condition. (EE-5-16), Kra 1/13

Original Wraps. 4to. 49 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. 'The Struggle for Truth; Max Brod on his 65th Birthday. ' With two illustrations. Contains contributions from Martin Buber, Felix Weltsch, Schalom Ben-Chorin, Mayer Ebner, Erwin Pollak, and others. Contains several biographies of Brod written by his associates, with a chronology of his life. Max Brod (1884–1968) , “Czech-born German author, composer, and representative member of the 'Prague Circle' (Prager Kreis) . ” -2008 EJ. Subjects: Brod, Max, 1884-1968. Bibliographie. Wraps chipped, aged, fragile. Internally clean and fresh. Good - condition. (GER-43-57)

(FT) 16mo. 160 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Poetry. OCLC lists 26 copies worldwide. "Born near Minsk, Regelson [1896-1981] arrived in the United States as a boy of nine. Though his formal education was not extensive, he read voluminously and acquired substantial knowledge in poetry and philosophy. He began to publish poems immediately after World War I. Although mainly a poet, he also wrote philosophical essays and satirical sketches, and translated from English into Hebrew, and from Hebrew and Yiddish into English. " He emigrated to Israel in 1949. Melo ha-talit 'alim was his first volume of prose. (Silberschlag, EJ) Title page detached and chipped, spots on covers, inscription of fly leaf, good condition. (HebLit-3-9)

1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. 5 pages, 31 cm. In Hebrew, English, and Yiddish. Rosenblatt (1882- 1933) was a Ukrainian-born cantor and composer who was regarded as the greatest cantor of his time. Rosenblatt's fame extended beyond the Jewish world earning him large concert fees, a singing role in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, and the sobriquet "The Jewish Caruso” (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS: Songs, Hebrew - United States. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (FAU, Harvard, NLI, Cambridge, Bayerische, HUC). Small tears in right and top margins. Contents good. (MUSIC-8-1-XX)

Paper wrappers, 8vo. , v, 20, 20, v pages. , [4] p. Of plates: illustrated. Complete text of essay in English and Yiddish. 4 pages of black and white photographs. SUBJECT (S) : Yivo Archives. Note(s) : "This essay is adapted from an address delivered on January 31, 1996, at a celebration honoring the return of YIVO's archives from Vilna..." Includes bibliographical references. Errata slip laid in. Very good condition. (BIB-17-1) xx

Original Wraps. 4to. 35, [1] pages. 29 cm. First edition. In English and Yiddish. With 10 page introduction about Yiddish translations into English, bibliography of items in translation listed alphabetically by author, with addenda for translations published 1966-1967; contains one page Yiddish synopsis at rear. A second edition was issued in 1969, with four added pages of supplementary material from 1968. Dina Abramowicz (1909-2000) “Renowned for her remarkable skills as a reference librarian, Dina Abramowicz built an impressive library collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where she worked since 1947. Her scholarship and expertise, praised by readers and writers alike, were celebrated by both library and cultural achievement awards. ” - Jewish Women's Archive. Subjects: Yiddish literature - Translations into English - Bibliography. Vertalingen. Yiddish literature - Translations into English. Bibliography. Light soiling and minor pen marks to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (BIBLIOG-35-19) xx

(FT) Hardcover, 4to. , 712 columns. With photographs throughout. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Belarus -- Brest. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Brest. Brest (Belarus) -- Ethnic relations. Added title page: Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora, a memorial library of countries and communities: Brest-Lit. Volume. Other Titles: Brest-Lit. Volume; Brest-Litovsk volume; Entsiklopedye fun di goles lender Responsibility: dershinen in Hebreish unter der redak. Fun Eliezer Shtaynman. OCLC lists 26 copies worldwide. Light wear and staining to cover. Fragments of jacket laid in and taped to back cover. Pages lightly tanned. Good + condition. (YIZ-4-8), ok 2/2021

First edition. Later boards with original paper wrappers bound in. 8vo. 24 pages; 22 cm. Written in Yiddish. Title translates to “Land of Israel during the war and after the war” in English. Typo on inside title page that lists publication year as 1934 instead of 1943. Divided into various chapters. Meir Berlin, later changed to the more Hebraic, Meir Bar-Ilan, “was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in the United States and the British Mandate of Palestine. He inspired the founding of Bar Ilan University in Israel which is named for him” (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Zionism, Mizrachi. OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (Univ of Florida, Harvard) , none in New York or anywhere off the Eastern Seaboard. Dampstaining of pages. Some minimal stains and rips. Library stamp and two pencil marks that do not affect text. Good + condition. (zion-12-9)

(FT) Cloth, 8vo. , 124 pages. In Yiddish. “First Steps: A Primer for Beginners. ” SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish language -- Readers. Illustrated primer with stories, songs and poetry. Printed in black, white and pink. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Stamp from the Yiddish Book Exchange on endpaper. Wear to spine. Light wear to covers. Some pencil markings to pages. Good + condition. (YIDCHI-3-4)

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 370 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era report from this gathering of Yiddish Intellectuals in Paris 3 years before its takeover by Nazi Germany. Title translates to “First Congress of the Yiddish Culture Congress, Paris 17-21, Sept. 1937: Stenographer’s Report. ” SUBJECTS: Jews -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Ex-library with usual markings. Light damp stains. Good Condition. (YID-40-45-L-'x)

(FT) Cloth, large 8vo. , 150 pages. In Yiddish. Illustrations by B. Kopman. “Nothing happened, four plays in verse”. Yiddish dramas. Contents: Der bloyer nakhtigal -- Der royt? Er nakhtigal -- Shipe zibele -- Dzshimi fun Skotland Yard. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Water staining and some buckling, primarily to first 55 pages and last few pages. Some soiling to first several pages. Text in good condition. (YIDCHI-1-12)

1st Edition. Later Boards. 8vo. 147 pages ; 24 cm. In Spanish. Title Translates into English as, “A Schemata of Jewish Literature. ” “Salomon Resnick (1894–1946) (was a) writer, journalist, lecturer, translator from Yiddish into Spanish, and community leader. Born in Russia, he immigrated to Argentina in 1902 as his father, Rabbi Moses Resnick, was hired by the JCA (Jewish Colonization Association) to serve the religious needs of the agricultural colonies… In 1914, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he started his literary career in the journal Juventud; in 1917 he joined the magazine Vida Nuestra publishing essays, articles, and translations from Yiddish writers. In 1918 he joined the founders of the daily Yiddish Di Presse as a journalist and editor; and from 1923 to 1933 he established and edited with Leon Kibrick the Spanish weekly Mundo Israelita, still appearing in the early 21st century. In 1923 Resnick launched the monthly Spanish journal Judaica, editing it until his death; this was his most outstanding project devoted to the promotion of Jewish culture through the publication of scholarly articles from all lines of thought, both Jewish and non-Jewish. As a community leader in 1923, Salomon Resnick participated in the foundation of the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, a cultural and sport center oriented to Spanish-speaking Jews. He was named director of its newly created library. In 1924 Resnick was appointed director of public information of JCA; in 1938 he took part in the foundation of the Argentinean branch of YIVO – Yiddishn Wisnshaftlechn Institute (Jewish Research Institute) and was elected its first president; and from 1944 until his death he held the position of local director of the JDC – Joint Distribution Committee, Public Relations Office… Resnick has been recognized as the preeminent expert in the Spanish version and interpretation of Yiddish literature. Over the years, he received many posthumous tributes in Latin America and Israel. ” (JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY, 2016) SUBJECT(S) : Jewish literature-- History and criticism. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp/Bookplate and Usual Markings. Front-end page repaired. Pages toned but clear and unmarked. Good+ condition. (latam-4-8)

Period Cloth. 8vo. 358 pages. 23 cm. Second printing. Stumbling Block or, a Stone in the Road: novel in four parts. ' Four volumes in one, bound in two books, with separate title pages. First published 1890. Sentimental novel, later reprinted several times, written by Yankev Dinezon (1856? –1919) , Yiddish author, editor, and literary activist. Subjects: Yiddish Fiction. OCLC lists 11 copies of this edition. First few leaves bumped, torn edges, previously repaired; pages age toned and lightly soiled throughout, hinges starting; otherwise clean. Good - condition. (YID-21-31)

(FT) Cloth, 8vo, 161-318, [2], 33-64 pages. In Russian with bound-in Hebrew supplement. Title translates to English as, “Jewish Antiquity Trimonthly. Jewish Historical Ethnographic Society. ” CONTENTS: Iz proshlago Evreyskoy ulitsy vo L’vove [From the Past Jewish Streets of Lvov] --- Krakovskiy svod evreyskikh statutov I privilegov [Jewish Code of Statutes and Privileges]. “Evreiskaia Starina appeared regularly from 1909 until 1916, ceasing publication entirely in 1930. It became one of the most important journals in modern Jewish historiography. Thanks to this journal, the study of East European Jewish history became a collective enterprise and vastly expanded its scope. Such heretofore neglected topics as Jewish folklore, Yiddish, popular reactions to persecution and oppression, and the history of Jewish autonomy were addressed. Contributors also included promising Jewish historians in Habsburg Galicia, such as Majer Balaban (1877–1942) , Ignacy Schiper (1884–1943) , and Mojzesz Schorr (1874–1941) ” (YIVO, 2012) . Spine repaired. Lacks front cover and title page. (RUS-11-23)

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 112 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Twenty One and One: About Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by the Nazis in Vilna, 1941-1942." Preface by A. Morewski and Leiser Ran. Subjects: Jewish actors -- Biography. Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Yiddish drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Jewish actors. Jews -- Persecutions. Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Spine is starting. Light soiling to cover. Internally very clean. Overall good condition. (YID-23-6)

1st edition. Paper Wrappers, Folio (Road Atlas size, 35 cm) , 32 pages. "Unity. " Yiddish Communist bimonthly (from May 1944-Jan 15 1945) , then monthly (through 1947) for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Preceeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1942. Important issues straddling the end of the war and the early post war period. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. 7 issues very good condition with bright white newsprint and only minimal edgewear. 2 issues brown and chipping and somewhat fragile. (Y-37B)

1st edition. Paper Wrappers, Folio (Road Atlas size, 35 cm) , 32 pages. "Unity. " Yiddish Communist bimonthly (from May 1944-Jan 15 1945) , then monthly (through 1947) for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Preceeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1942. Important issues straddling the end of the war and the early post war period. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. 2 issues very good condition with bright white newsprint and only minimal edgewear. 1 issues with detached covers and edgewear but good strong paper, 1 issues brown and chipping and somewhat fragile. Good Condition Overall (Y-37C)

1st edition. Paper Wrappers, Folio (Road Atlas size, 35 cm) , 32 pages. "Unity. " Yiddish Communist bimonthly (from May 1944-Jan 15 1945) , then monthly (through 1947) for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Preceeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1942. Important issues straddling the end of the war and the early post war period. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. Small spot on cover, Very Good Condition (Y-37E)

Vols: 1945 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 38-49); 1946 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 50-61, not bound); 1947 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 62-73), 1948 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 74-85); 1951 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 109-120); 1952 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 121-132); 1953 (Nrs. 1-12, Running Nrs. 133-144); Nyu York : Forshung-Instiut baym Yidishn Arbeyer-komitet, 1947. Cloth, 4to, 12 pages per issue. Monthly. "Facts and Opinions. " Published by the research committee of the Jewish Labor Committee. Postwar period volume. We located only 1 holding of this periodical (Harvard-partial run) , and none others on OCLC. OCLC does list a later (1971 on) periodical of a similar name, with one holding worldwide (NYPL) . SUBJECT(S) : Jewish labor unions -- Periodicals. Labor movement -- United States -- Periodicals. Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Periodicals. Very Good Condition. (Y-5B) Price per annual.

Original Printed Wraps. 8vo. 125 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title on title page verso: Za Narod I Rodinu. Epic poems about the defense of the soviet union during the great patriotic war, “For People and Homeland” was written by the famous avant-garde Soviet Yiddish poet Peretz Markish (1895 – 1952) , recipient of the Order of Lenin, member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, who died in the Night of the Murdered Poets. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Poetry. OCLC lists 26 copies. Light soiling to wraps, bit of wear to top and bottom of backstrip, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-105-31), Y-8 11/12

Original Cloth. 16mo. 180 pages. 15 cm. First edition. Inscribed by “Peretz Hirschbien, Colorado, 1918”; . In Yiddish. “On the Morningstar”, a work of drama composed by poems by Peretz Hirshbeyn (1880–1948) , the acclaimed playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director. OCLC lists 20 copies. Subjects: Yiddish Literature. Hinges starting, light stain to back page, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (YID-18-5)

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages ; 18 cm. In Yiddish. Paris Yiddish imprint published the same year the city was overrun by Nazi forces. Title translates to “Toward the historic day of judgment, the Jewish people between curses and redemption” Published early in the Holocaust, Ben-Adir argues for the enactment of national introspection and calm rather than territorialism! Ben-Adir (1878–1942) was writer and Jewish socialist leader, born in Krucha, Belorussia. He was a child prodigy and left for university in Minsk at the age of 16. While there, he was heavily influenced by Jewish socialism. After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Ben-Adir published an article advocating political Zionism in opposition to the ideology of Ahad Ha-Am. After then Kishinev pogrom of 1903 Ben-Adir published a call for the formation of a Jewish party which would combine the aims of revolutionary socialism with national Jewish aspirations. Ben-Adir was one of the founders and ideologists of the Vozrozhdeniye group, and of its successor of the Sejmists (Jewish Socialist Workers' Party) whose program included Jewish national-political autonomy while envisaging territorial sovereignty as a remote aim. Ben-Adir stayed in Eretz Israel between 1925 and 1927 but returned to Berlin, leaving for Paris in 1933. SUBJECTS: Zionism – Jewish nationalism. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Minor browning and edgewear. Overall Very Good Condition. (ZION-13-52-'L)

(FT) Softbound. 8vo. 99 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Polish title on verso title page: “Spo´z´niona Wiosna. ” Title translates as: “Belated Springtime. ” Holocaust-themed Yiddish poetry. Moshe Shklar, born in inter-war Poland, resident of Warsaw and longtime editor of the Yiddish newspaper Folks-Shtime: “published in Poland from April 1945 until December 1991. Folks-shtime (Voice of the People) was the main newspaper of Polish Jews after World War II. It began in Lódz and from October 1949 it came out in Warsaw. Until 8 December 1956 it was published under the auspices of the Polish United Workers Party. Thereafter it became the organ of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland. In its last period, from 1989 to 1991, the Ministry of Culture and Art financed its publication. Beginning in 1969, the newspaper added a section in Polish. From 1950 to 1968 Folks-shtime appeared four times a week; from 1968 to 1991 it was issued weekly. In Yiddish, it used standard rather than Soviet orthography. ” (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Moshe Sklar later relocated to Los Angeles, and for twenty years was the editor of the esteemed Yiddish literary journal Heshbon. Subjects: Yiddish Poetry. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide Institutional stamp on endpage. Light wear to covers. Fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-99-45)

1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, small 8vo, 92 pages. Chaim Zhitlovsky’s copy with his ownership stamp on half title. Dr. Chaim Zhitlovsky (1865-1943) “was a towering figure in modern Jewish politics and culture during his own lifetime. He was highly influential yet often controversial. A revolutionary socialist and Jewish nationalist, Zhitlovsky promoted the idea of a Yiddish cultural renaissance in the United States, eastern Europe, and wherever Yiddish-speaking Jews lived. At various times, he supported Zionism and Communism; at other times he was a fierce critic of both.” (YIVO). In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Nations Sing.” Isaac (Itzik) Manger (1901-1969) was a leading Yiddish poet, playwright and author. Born in Czernowitz into a Yiddish literary home–Manger’s father, Hillel, whose bohemianism and bouts of depression kept the family on the move, coined the Yiddish phrase literatoyre, a felicitous pairing of “literature” and “Torah”--the young Manger fled to Romania in WWI, where in 1918 he began to write Yiddish poetry.After the war Manger moved “to Bucharest, where he became a leading spokesman for the Yiddish secular movement in Greater Romania, wrote for the local Yiddish press, and did the lecture circuit, speaking on the ballad as well as on Spanish, Romanian, and Gypsy folklore.Manger was 27 when he arrived in Warsaw as a Romanian poet with thick, disheveled flowing hair, blazing eyes, and a lighted cigarette perpetually dangling from his lips. To the Yiddish literary scene of that city, Manger was an exotic newcomer. He would call this period (1928–1938) ‘my most beautiful decade.' It was by far his most productive.Manger granted interviews and published articles in Literarishe bleter; gave readings at the Writers Club, where he recited his poetry from memory; published Shtern afn dakh (Stars on the Roof; 1929), a meticulously edited volume of his verse; put out 12 issues of his own 4-page literary journal called Getseylte verter (Counted Words; 1929–1930) and filled mostly with his own manifestos, poems, and literary musings; invented a new genre, which he called Khumesh-lider (Bible Songs; 1935); rewrote the Purim megilah (Megile-lider; 1936); penned a personalized history of Yiddish literature from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century (Noente geshtaltn [Close Images]; 1938); published three more volumes of verse, Lamtern in vint (Lantern in the Wind; 1933), Velvl Zbarzher shraybt briv tsu malkele der sheyner (Velvl Zbarzher Writes Letters to the Beautiful Malkele; 1937), and Demerung in shpigl (Dusk in the Mirror; 1937). He also compiled Felker zingen (Nations Sing; 1936), an anthology of European folk songs; wrote Di vunderlekhe lebns-bashraybung fun Shmuel-Abe Abervo (Dos bukh fun gan-eydn) (The Amazing Life Story of Shmuel-Abe Abervo [The Book of the Garden of Eden]; 1939), a fictional autobiography in prose; witnessed the production of two plays, loosely based on Avrom Goldfadn’s work: Di kishef-makherin (The Witch) and Dray Hotsmakhs (Three Hotsmakhs); composed lyrics for the Yiddish cabaret and the fledgling Yiddish movie industry; crisscrossed Poland knowing very little Polish; and entered into a common-law marriage with Rokhl Oyerbakh. In January 1930, Manger was one of the four youngest initiates elected to the Yiddish PEN club. The other three were Yisroel Rabon, Iosef Papiernikov, and Isaac Bashevis Singer…. In March 1951….He married Genia Nadir, the widow of the poet Moyshe Nadir, and a jubilee committee chaired by the poet Mani Leyb published a beautiful edition of his Lid un balade (Song and Ballad) in 1952…..In 1958, Manger made his first trip to Israel, where he finally settled, found a new mass audience in both Yiddish and Hebrew, and died in that country….On 31 October 1968, the Itsik Manger Prize was established in Israel. His notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence are housed at the Manger Archive at the National and University Library in Jerusalem” (Roskies in YIVO Encyclopedia). SUBJECT(S): Yiddish poetry. Poems.OCLC: 7405415. Edgewear to wrappers and spine. Date penned on front cover, number penned on spine and on half title. Textblock toning and somewhat fragile, but without edgewear. Good Condition. (Yid-43-12-+)

Cloth, 8vo. , xvii, 300 pages. In Yiddish. “A quarter of a century of the Histadruth”. “HISTADRUT (abbreviation of Ha-Histadrut ha-Kelalit shel ha-Ovedim be-Ere? Israel, the General Federation of Labor in Israel; until 1966, Ha-Histadrut ha-Kelalit shel ha-Ovedim ha-Ivriyyim be-Ere? Israel, the General Federation of Jewish Labor) , founded in 1920… the largest labor union and the largest voluntary organization in Israel and largest Jewish labor organization in the world. In 1969 it had a membership of 1, 038, 653, including housewives and members of its working youth organization, Ha-No'ar ha-Oved. Excluding the two latter categories, its membership was 719, 937, approximately 75% of the labor force in Israel. By 1985 it numbered 1.5 million members, who together with their families included 2.5 million people. From 1995, after the election of Haim Ramon as secretary general, the Histadrut underwent radical changes in its organization and operation” (Medzini & Gilboa, EJ, 2007) . Very good condition. (YID-17-4)

1st edition. Period boards with original color illustrated paper wrapper bound on front. 8vo, 126 pages; 24 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Children's literature, Yiddish. OCLC: 19313239. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Paper brown but solid, 1 leaf loose. Wear and rubbing to covers, Good Condition. (YID-41-74-ELR) .

New York : H. Toybnshlang 1926. Paper wrappers, 8vo. In Yiddish. "Kurtz was a Yiddish poet and editor. Born in Vitebsk, he wandered in Russia for five years as a wigmaker's apprentice and immigrated to the United States in 1911. In 1916 he began to publish Yiddish lyrics; at first he was attracted to the In-Zikh movement and participated in its annuals, but he later joined the Association of Yiddish Proletarian Writers. In his third volume of verse, Plakatn ("Placards, " 1927) , he introduced a new form of poetry, which he called "placard style, " which sought to reproduce the kaleidoscopic metropolis" (Liptzin, EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Ohio State and Harvard) . Some chipping on spine and fading on covers, otherwise good condition. (YID-10-9)

1st edition. Original boards. 4to. 514 pages, 32 cm. In Yiddish with alternative English title page. Title translates to "Studies in Philology. " Part of a series called "Publications of the Yiddish Scientific Institute" spearheaded by Max Weinreich (1894-196) . Weinrich was a prominent Yiddishist who co-founded YIVO in 1925 (EJ, 2009) . Contents include: "Velevele of Zbarazh and His Letters, " Bernhard Wachstein, "Israel Axenfled, New Data on His Life and Work, " Sh. Ginsburg, "New and Old Words in the Yiddish bible Translation by Yehoash, " Khaim Spivak, "The Struggle for Yiddish in the Old Yiddish literature, " Israel Zinberg, "Assimilation of Consonants in the Yiddish Sentence, " Theodore Gutmann, "The Shire-gris, " J. Willer, "The Three Yiddish Books of Michael Adam, " N. Shtif, "A Lamentation of the 'Meshorers' of Frankfurt, " A Freimann, "Proper Names and Their Importance in Yiddish, " Tsvi Shpirn, "On the use of Cases in Yiddish, " E. Kaganoff, "The Slav Element and Slav Influence in Yiddish, " Alfred Landau, "The First History of Yiddish Theatre, " Jacob Shatzky, "Notes on Yiddish in the Burgenland, " R. Stalek, "Beliefs and Customs in Connection with Death, " Kh. Khayes, "The Date of Birth of Ayzik Mayer Dik, " P. Kon, "A Dutch-Yiddish Bride Song of the End of the 18th Century, " I. M. Hillesom, "Yiddish Elements in the Early German Jargon, " Rudolf Glanz, "Notes on the Polish-Yiddish Vocabulary, " Moshe Lerer, "Rare Yiddish Books in the Library of the University of Harvard, " A. A. Roback, "The Song of Mobilization, " W. Anderson, "On the Terminology Used in Various Trades, " S. Winter, "Notes on the Ahaseurus Drama, " M. Weinreich, "Contributions tro Word Formation in Yiddish, " Z. Raisin, "Peretz and Frishman in Their Personal Relations, " N. Mayzel. SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature - History and criticism. OCLC: 13134475. Minor wear to boards. Internally very good. Overall very good condition. (YID-33-76-LXE)

Original Cloth. 8vo. 192 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Finf un tsvantsig yor folks-bine: aroysgegebn tsum finf un tsvantsig yorign yubiley fayerung fun der dramatisher institutsye fun Arbayter ring, Brentsh 555. 25 Years of the Folksbiene (The People's Stage) . A jubilee celebration volume, with contributions from Avrom Reyzen, Ab. Cahan, Hillel Rogoff, Avrom Goldfaden, and a history of the folks-bine by Yankev Fishman. The Folksbiene, Branch 555 of the WC – a Yiddish theatre troupe which presented classics in Yiddish translation as well as original works. Subjects: Jewish theater. Folksbiene. Workmen's Circle – Theatre. Workmen's Circle (U. S. ) . Branch 555, New York. OCLC lists 23 copies. Light soiling to cloth, previous owners name in pencil on endpage, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-22-42)

First edition. Original paper wrappers rebound in period boards. 8vo. 101 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “The People and The Land: A Special Anthology for the Study of Philosophy. ” Features articles by Yiddish literary giants such as Ben-Adir, Ba’al Mahshevos, Yosef Luria, etc. Edited by Shalit and devoted to philosophical and social enlightenment and to the critique of Zionism. Moshe Shalit (1855-1941) was a researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist of the inter-war period. Shalit devoted himself to the promotion of Yiddish language and of literature in a spirit of openness and intercultural exchange. Shalit was an active member of the Jewish Scientific Institute, YIVO, which became the Yiddish Institute for Jewish Research. He was murdered by the Nazis. (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECTS: Zionism. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-61)

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, [32] pages, 30cm. In English and Yiddish. The Jewish Ministers Cantors' Association, otherwise known as the Chazzanim Farband, is the oldest and most prestigious cantor's association in America. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (JTS, UF, HUC, NYPL) . Minor soiling to cover, some loose pages, otherwise Good Condition. (MUSIC-6-13)

Folio (Large); 1st edition. Period Cloth, Folio (newspaper), ca 600 pages. Bound volume of the ACWA's Yiddish weekly. (Its English language counterpart was called ADVANCE) The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America originalted as a heavily Jewish & Italian union out of the successful 1910 strike against Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago, aided by middle class progresssives like Jane Addams and the Women's Trade Union League. "Among it's founding cadre, " note Buhle, Buhle & Georgakas (Encyclopedia of the American Left, pp. 16-18) , "nearly every variety of left-wing politics was represented: Lithuanian revolutionary nationalism, Bohemian free-thought, Italian syndicalism, the revoltionary unionism of the IWW, Jewish and Italian anarchism, the orthodox socialism of the American Socialist Party...and the tactically bolder socialism of the Jewish Bund. " This political rainbow is cleary evident in the pages of the FORTSCHRITT. Subjects:Jewish labor unions -- United States -- Periodicals. Yiddish newspapers -- United States -- Periodicals. Labor movement -- New York -- Periodicals. OCLC: 40576795. OCLC lists 5 holdings, of unclear completeness, worldwide (JTS, U of I, Dept of Labor, YIVO, IISH). Paper very brown and fragile, lacking 2 leaves from the first issue and the remaining first 6 leaves loose with some loss. otherwise Good Condition.(yid-35-3). Illustr: Illustrated by Lots of Period Advertising

1st Yiddish Edition. No Date [1920] Original Orange Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 32 pages. In Yiddish. Translated from the Spanish. SUBJECT (S) : Anarchism; Anarchisme; Ferrer y Guardia, Francisco. Francesc Ferrer I Guàrdia (1859 –1909) (known as Francisco Ferrer y Guardia in Spanish and often simply as FranciscoFerrer) was a Spanish anarchist. In 1901 he opened the Escuela Moderna (The Modern School) “to teach middle-class children (then) radical social values. In 1906 he was arrested on suspicion of involvement with the anarchist Mateu Morral's attack on King Alfonso XIII and released uncharged over a year later. His school failed and closed while he was incarcerated. Early in the summer of 1908, after his release from jail, he wrote the story of the Modern School. The work was entitled The Origins and Ideals of the Modern School and was translated into English and published by the Knickerbocker Press in 1913. Following the declaration of martial law in 1909 during the Tragic Week, he was arrested and, having been found guilty after a lengthy trial, executed by firing squad at Montjuich Fortress in Barcelona on 13 October. Shortly after his execution, numerous supporters of Ferrer's ideas in the United States of America formed what were called Modern Schools, or Ferrer Schools, modeled after la Escuela Moderna. The first and most notable Modern School was formed in New York City in 1911, and then later a community was founded around a school, known as the Ferrer Colony and Modern School. In Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman called Francesc Ferrer a ‘rebel’ and said that ‘his spirit would rise in just indignation against the iron régime of his country...’" (Wikipedia, 2015) . The Yidishe ratsyonalistisher gezelshaft published this work 3 times, in 1920, 1930, and 1940. Based on appearance, this seems to be the edition of 1920, of which OCLC lists only 1 copy worldwide for this edition (IISH) ; IISH also has a copy of the 1930 edition, and Harvard and UCL hold copies of the 1940 edition, for a total of 4 holdings anywhere for any of the 3 editions of this scarce Argentinian Yiddish Anarchist pamphlet. Ex-library with no markings. Internally Very Clean. Overall Very Good+ Condition. (YID-23-15)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 161 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished refugees into Western Europe. Moses Avigdor Shulvass (1909–1988) , “scholar and educator. Born in Plonsk, Poland, Shulvass studied in Berlin. He lived in Erez Israel from 1938 to 1948 and then immigrated to the United States, where he eventually became professor of Jewish history at Spertus College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His publications in many languages include historical studies on Italian Jewry. Of special interest are his books Roma ve-Yerushalayim (‘Rome and Jerusalem, ’ 1945) ; Hayyei ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance (‘Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, ’ 1955) ; and his biographical sketch of Samuel David Luzzatto with documentary supporting material, Pirkei Hayyim (1951) . He also published two volumes of essays on various aspects of Jewish history, Bi-Zevat ha-Dorot (‘In the Grip of Generations, ’ 1960) and Between the Rhine and Bosphorus (1964) as well as Die Juden in Wuerzburg waehrend des Mittelalters (1934) . He also wrote From East to West (1971) , Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe (1975) , and The History of the Jewish People (1982) . ” (EJ 2008) Subjects: Jews - Germany - History - 1096-1800. Jews - Poland - History. Jews - Migrations. Joden. Migratie (demografie) Migration. Geschichte 1600-1800. Very clean and fresh in VG jacket. Very good + condition. (EE-5-37A)

First edition. Original dramatic illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 52 pages. 30 cm. In Yiddish with some English advertisements. Title translates to "Spring Ball Souvenir Journal. " The I. L. Peretz Yiddish Writers’ Union (YWU) , also sometimes called the Jewish Writers’ Union, was founded in New York in 1915 as a labor and mutual aid organization for Yiddish journalists. SUBJECTS: OCLC and Worldcat do not list any copies anywhere. Small, two-inch long chip to top left of front wrapper and two smaller chips to bottom. No damage to illustration, however. Internally Very Good. Overall Good+ Condition. Dramatic and very rare. (ART-27-11)

1st Edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 245 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Inscribed by the author Title translates into English as “Of all the Deambulations: Collected Poems. ” “Yaakov Glantz (1902–1982) was a Yiddish Mexican poet. He was born in Novovitebsk, Ukraine, into a family of religious farmers. He studied both in a traditional Jewish school and in Russian secular schools, and taught Yiddish language and literature at ort schools in Odessa. Glantz wrote poetry in Russian and was part of literary bohemian groups of the Russian Revolution. In 1925 he immigrated to Mexico, where he worked in many occupations. In 1927 he started to publish in the first Yiddish newspaper in Mexico, Meksikaner Yiddish Lebn, and in 1927 he authored with Itzhak Berliner and Moshe Glikovsky the first book of poems in Yiddish to appear in Mexico. ” (Encyclopedia Judaica, 2016) These are his collected poems. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Contains original photograph of Glantz with a cigar and title pages in both Yiddish and Spanish. In Very Good Condition. (LatAm-3-7)

(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 201 pages, in Yiddish, illustrated Stories followed by explanations of difficult words and bibliographical notes. Includes bibliographical references. Joel Entein (1875–1959) , was a “Yiddish editor, educator, and translator. Entin was born in Pohost, Russia, where he received a traditional religious and secular education. He became active in Hibbat Zion and in 1890 moved to Moscow to work for Bnei Zion. He arrived in New York in 1891 where he audited classes at Columbia University. Although he wrote chiefly in Yiddish, his first publication was an English poem” (EJ, 2007) . SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- language--- Readers --- short stories. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Covers very shaken and loose, first and last page loose, the rest is still bind tightly together, overall good+ condition (YIDCHI-5-39)

Cloth, large 8vo. , 455 pages. In Yiddish. Of school and "shell" to TSISHO: Russian Jewry in Search of school, language, culture”. Comprehensive history of Jewish education in Russia and Poland. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Education -- Russia. Other Titles: Ensayos historico-culturales judios. TSISHO (or CYSHO) refers to the Central Yiddish School Organization. “At a conference in 1921 attended by 376 delegates, the Central Yiddish School Organization (CYShO) was formed, which included as its affiliates Yiddish schools of all trends. In 1921 there were, in 44 Polish cities, 69 Yiddish elementary schools and 35 kindergartens, having altogether 381 classes with 13, 457 children. The Polish government took a hostile position to these new secular Yiddish schools, but nevertheless freed their pupils from the obligation of attending other schools to meet the requirements of compulsory education. Various absurd police accusations were leveled against the schools. Schools were closed and teachers arrested or removed. Nevertheless the network of these CYShO schools grew. In 1925 their numbers reached 91 elementary schools with 455 classes and 16, 364 pupils; 3 secondary schools with 780 pupils. In 1929 there were 114 elementary schools with 17, 380 pupils, 46 kindergartens, 52 evening schools, 3 secondary schools, and 1 teachers' training seminary, a grand total of 216 institutions with 24, 000 pupils. The Polish government became ever more reactionary and antisemitic, which resulted in a quantitative decline in the schools, but their quality kept improving. The character of the CYShO school became crystallized; its educational approach included also the social and national upbringing of the child, attachment to his people, and an attitude of social responsibility. The methodology of instruction was in consonance with these objectives. The pride of the CYShO school movement was the children's sanatorium named after V. Medem . This was a great creative institution with many pedagogic achievements. On the eve of World War II it had 250 children, and the institution was open the entire year. The children and teachers were all killed by the Nazis” (Kazdan, EJ, 2012) . Front hinge starting. With ribbon bookmark. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-2-6)xx

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 104 pages. Includes 11 photos with captions in English & Yiddish. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Articles include: Guns in the Ghetto of Riga, by I[srael]. Kaplan; Life and Death of Dubno Ghetto, by M. Weisberg; Crying Graves, by A. Weisbrod; Labour camp at Mielec (reports of witnesses), by I. Kohs; Nazi word of honour, by Dr. M. Schatner; At the Ghetto of Czestochow (pages), by W. Gliksman; Jewish Folklore during the Nazi Time, by by I[srael]. Kaplan; Let us keep silent (Being sung in camp); Dwellings of Ghetto (Being sung in camp);Two Nazi Documents (with explanations); List of articles concerning Jewish Life during the Nazi Regime in the Press of Shaarith Ha-Plata; Activity Report; Chronicle. Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Very Good+ Condition. (holo2-122-51)

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 112 pages. Includes 10 photos with captions in English & Yiddish, & 2 maps. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: The Extermination of Jews in East-Galicia, By Dr. Philip Friedmann; Polish Jewish Soldiers as War Prisoners (Memoirs), by Mendel Lifschitz; Tchernowitz (Cernauti), by Dr. Jakob Ungar; In the forests of White Russia (Eye-Witness Report): a) Around Woloshin, by Mosche Mejerson, b) In the Braslav area, by Mosche Trejster, [&] c) At Radun, by Lieb Lewin; My Experiences During the War (From the Series of Children's Reports), by Daniel Burstin; Lullaby (Ghetto-song); "Buna" (Camp-song); Nazi Documents with Comments; Photographs of the Nazi Period; Bibliographical List of Articles on Jewish Life under the Nazis Published in the Press of the Shaarith Ha-Plata; Report on Activites of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Very Good Condition. (holo2-122-50)

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 112 pages. Includes 10 photos with captions in English & Yiddish, & 2 maps. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: The Extermination of Jews in East-Galicia, By Dr. Philip Friedmann; Polish Jewish Soldiers as War Prisoners (Memoirs), by Mendel Lifschitz; Tchernowitz (Cernauti), by Dr. Jakob Ungar; In the forests of White Russia (Eye-Witness Report): a) Around Woloshin, by Mosche Mejerson, b) In the Braslav area, by Mosche Trejster, [&] c) At Radun, by Lieb Lewin; My Experiences During the War (From the Series of Children's Reports), by Daniel Burstin; Lullaby (Ghetto-song); "Buna" (Camp-song); Nazi Documents with Comments; Photographs of the Nazi Period; Bibliographical List of Articles on Jewish Life under the Nazis Published in the Press of the Shaarith Ha-Plata; Report on Activites of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Ex-library, otherwise Very Good Condition. (holo2-122-50C)

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 106 pages. Includes 11 photos with captions in English & Yiddish. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: The con-camp [i.e. concentration camp] prisoners march to Tirol, by I.K. [Israel Kaplan?]; March from Kaufering-camps, by I[sreal]. Kaplan; From Schwabhausen to Dachau, by Dr. L. Goldstein; On the march from Mühlsdorf, by Rabbi Elchanan Person; On the march from Hessenthal, by Dr. Mordchai Glatsetin; From Görlitz to Tirol, by Jakob Rosenbaum; On the March from Wistegiersdorf, by A. Tenenbaum; On the march from Buchenwald, by Israel Segal; Nazi "liberation," b7 Dr. A. Waksberger; My Experiences during the War (from the Series of Children's Reports), by Jakob Lewin; Mama bless me!.. (Camp-song); Oh, potates [sic].. (Ghetto-song), by Hersz Albus; Nazi Documents with translations; Photographs of the Nazi Era; Bibliographical list of articles on Jewish life under the Nazis. [sic] published in the Press of Shaarith Ha-Plata; List of Camps; Report on Activities of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Very Good Condition. A beautiful copy. (HOLO2-122-51C)

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 106 pages. Includes 11 photos with captions in English & Yiddish. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: The con-camp [i.e. concentration camp] prisoners march to Tirol, by I.K. [Israel Kaplan?]; March from Kaufering-camps, by I[sreal]. Kaplan; From Schwabhausen to Dachau, by Dr. L. Goldstein; On the march from Mühlsdorf, by Rabbi Elchanan Person; On the march from Hessenthal, by Dr. Mordchai Glatsetin; From Görlitz to Tirol, by Jakob Rosenbaum; On the March from Wistegiersdorf, by A. Tenenbaum; On the march from Buchenwald, by Israel Segal; Nazi "liberation," b7 Dr. A. Waksberger; My Experiences during the War (from the Series of Children's Reports), by Jakob Lewin; Mama bless me!.. (Camp-song); Oh, potates [sic].. (Ghetto-song), by Hersz Albus; Nazi Documents with translations; Photographs of the Nazi Era; Bibliographical list of articles on Jewish life under the Nazis. [sic] published in the Press of Shaarith Ha-Plata; List of Camps; Report on Activities of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Touch of corner wear, about Very Good- Condition (HOLO2-122-51F)

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, small 8vo, 101 pages. Includes 13 photos with captions in English & Yiddish. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. Articles include: Lachwa, by I.K. [Israel Kaplan?], Aaron Schworin, Chaim Shklar, & Abraham Feinberg; Polish Jewish Soldiers as War Prisoners (memoirs), by Mendel Lifschitz; A Chapter on Siedlce (Eye-Witness Report), by Getzl Weissberg; Comments on the Photographs of Siedlce, by Fritz Heft; The Last Forty-Five Children in Kielce, by Sara Kerbel; The "Jewish Band" (Eye-Witness Report), by Isaac Feierstein; The Problem of Productivization [sic] in the Warsaw Ghetto, by Eng. Isaiah Bluman; In Treblinke (Eye-Witness Report), by Simcha Bunim Lesky; Luck (Eye-Witness Report), by Meyer Roitman; Slaughter at the Oceanside (Eye-Witness Report), by Miriam Zweig; In the Transport from the Death Camp Balkenheim (Eye-Witness Report), by Maurice Kraus; Brezna (Eye-Witness Report), by Malke Beilinsky; In Budapest (Eye-Witness Report), by Alimelech Vider; In the Woods of Polesie, by Samuel Praude; My Experiences During the War (From the Series of Children's Reports), by Arieh Milch; Expressions Used in the Ghetto of Lodz, by I. Rosenbaum & M.I. Feigenbaum; Lullaby (Ghetto-song); The Ghetto of Lodz (Ghetto-song), by Jonathan Karp; Nazi Documents with comments; Photographs of the Nazi period; Bibliographical list of articles on Jewish life under the Nazis. [sic] published in the Press of Shaarith Ha-Plata; List of Camps; Report on Activities of the Central Historical Commission; News of the Central Historical Commission. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-122-51B)

1st edition. Later boards. 8vo. 153 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “From My Notebook.” Medem (1879-1923) was a Russian Jewish activist and ideologue of the Jewish Labor Bund. The Jewish Labour Bund, founded in 1897 in the Lithuanian Vilnius, was committed to the cultural and national rights of Jews in Eastern Europe. In this regard, Medem dared to oppose the view of Russian Marxists, and even of Lenin. These objectives received support in Central and Western Europe, e.g. from Austromarxists, and especially in several Jewish immigrant workers' clubs in Paris, whose members described themselves as Bundists. One such club, which also saw the education of the workers as its main task was given the name Arbeter-klub afn nomen Vladimir Medem (Workers' Club on behalf of Vladimir Medem). His educational policy ambitions culminated in 1929 in the founding of the Medem Library, which at 30,000 volumes is now the largest Yiddish cultural institution in Europe (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS: Socialism - Zionism - Nationalism and socialism. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (OCLC:144652941). Pages toning, Very good condition. First Edition of an Important Memoir. (YID-33-58-LX-'e)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 217; 205; 230 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Cover illustrated by S. Raskin. “From New York to Rehovot and Back”, the travel narrative and memoir of Yehoash in three volumes. “YEHOASH (pseudonym of Yehoash Solomon Bloomgarden; 1872–1927) , Yiddish poet and translator. Yehoash was born in Virbalen, Lithuania, and as a boy he read maskilic literature as well as studying Torah with his father, briefly attending the yeshivah of Volozhin, only to begin a career as a Hebrew poet. At the age of 17 he took his first Hebrew poems to Warsaw, where I. L. Peretz encouraged him to continue writing Hebrew and Yiddish lyrics. The following year Yehoash immigrated to the U. S. He made no headway either as a Hebrew poet or in various callings – bookkeeping, tailoring, peddling, and Hebrew teaching. For a decade he faced severe privations until he contracted tuberculosis and went to the Denver Sanatorium for Consumptives in 1900 to recuperate. There he remained for almost ten years, maturing as a Yiddish poet, publishing his poems, ballads, fables, and translations in leading dailies, periodicals, and literary almanacs. In his early 30s, he undertook to translate the Bible into a modern Yiddish which would combine scholarly precision with simple idiomatic language, a task to which he devoted the rest of his life. While at work on this translation, he prepared, together with Charles D. Spivak, his physician and the co-founder of the sanatorium, a Yiddish dictionary, first published in 1911, which defined about 4, 000 Hebrew and Aramaic words used in Yiddish and which went through many editions as a basic reference work. Returning to New York in 1909, Yehoash had to struggle to make a living, even though his fame was worldwide and Yiddish periodicals in many lands gladly published his contributions. In January 1914, he left for Erez Israel and settled in Rehovot. He mastered classical Arabic and translated portions of the Koran and Arabian tales into Yiddish. When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, he returned to New York and published the story of his experiences in three volumes of travel sketches, Fun New York biz Rekhovot un Tsurik (‘From New York to Rehovot and Back, ’ 1917–18; Eng. The Feet of the Messenger, 1923) . His sojourn in Erez Israel as well as his knowledge of Arabic proved useful to him in his work on the translation of the Bible. Although he had published a Yiddish rendering of several biblical books including Isaiah and Job in 1910, he realized the inadequacy of this initial attempt and began anew. His more adequate rendering, starting with Genesis, appeared in installments in the New York daily Der Tog from 1922. At the time of his death only the Pentateuch translation had been published, but the rest of the biblical books were printed from his manuscripts. His version was hailed as a contribution of national significance. The translator drew upon idiomatic treasures of various Yiddish dialects, upon the Khumesh-Taytsh (the Old Yiddish, word-for-word translation of Pentateuch) , vocabulary used by melammedim in Ashkenazi schools for many generations, and expressions of the Ze'enah u-Re'enah (Tsene-Rene) , with its archaic patina. Yehoash was thus able to retain the rhythm and flavor of the Hebrew to a larger extent than preceding Bible translators. The two-volume edition, with parallel Hebrew and Yiddish texts, distributed in tens of thousands of copies, became a standard work for Yiddish-speaking homes throughout the world. In 1949, Mordecai Kosover edited Yehoash's notes to the Bible, which afforded an insight into the translator's many years of wrestling with the sacred text. Yehoash, who also translated Longfellow's Hiawatha and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam into Yiddish, was far ahead of his time in terms of his own poetry. When the first edition of his Gezamelte Lider (‘Collected Poems’) appeared in 1907, he was widely hailed as a first-rank artist. His lyrics were reprinted in anthologies and school texts, and were translated into many languages. An English translation, Poems of Yehoash, by Isidore Goldstick, appeared in 1952, and a Hebrew version (1957) was a cooperative venture by a number of significant Hebrew writers, including Jacob Fichmann and Dov Sadan. Yehoash's two later lyric volumes (1919 and 1921) linked him with Inzikhism, the modernist trend of introspection in post-World War I Yiddish poetry, the leaders of which acclaimed him as their forerunner. Yehoash gave expression in his lyrics to his awareness of a divine force permeating the universe. He re-imagined in verse biblical and post-biblical legends, tales from medieval Jewish chronicles, and hasidic lore, versified fables from the Talmud, Aesop, La Fontaine, and Lessing, and created new fables of his own. He wrote romantic, ghostly ballads, but he also felt the spell of Peretz, his lifelong friend, and strove for classical purity and perfection in rhythm and rhyme. Yehoash also influenced American Jewish poetry in English, notably the modernist work of Louis Zukofsky. ” (EJ 2007) Subjects: Yiddish literature - Palestine. Palestine -Description and travel. Authors, Yiddish - New York (State) - Biography. Authors, Yiddish - Israel - Biography. Light wear to cloth, light soiling to outer edges, endpapers starting on volume 3, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (YID-16-10)

Meksike [i. E. Mexico City] : Shelomoh Mendelson-fond bay der gezelshaft fun kultur un hilf, 1948. Cloth, 8vo, 400 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title on verso of title page: "De Varsovia hasta Changhai. " Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Refugees, Jewish--Personal narratives. Mexico City (SEF-27-29) . Light wear to cloth, one corner bumped. Good+ Condition.

Original wraps. 4to. 6 pages. 31 cm. Edition. Words in Yiddish romanized, also printed as text in Yiddish script. For medium voice and piano. Music by B. Charloff; words by David Goldstein. Boris Charloff (1896-1972) cantor, composer, served in Toronto Synagogues. J 141; Metro Music Co. Wraps printed in brown ink, with portrait of Charloff. Subjects: Songs (Medium voice) with piano. Songs, Yiddish. OCLC lists 6 copies. Three hole punch on side, institutional stamps in gutter of first page, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-3-28)

Original Wraps. 8vo. 81 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Limited edition, number 159 of 250. Commemorative volume for Micha Josef Bin Gorion. Bibliography of Bin Gorion's works: p. 72-79. Compiled and written by his son Immanuel Bin-Gorion (1903–1987) , “writer and translator, was born in Breslau. In 1936 he settled in Tel Aviv where he served as director of Bet Mikhah Yosef (a municipal library based on his father's collection) . His writings in Hebrew and German include essays, literary criticism, and studies of folklore. He edited and published his father's writings. ” - 2008 EJ. Micha Josef Berdyczewski (Later: Bin-Gorion) (1865–1921) , “Hebrew writer and thinker. Born in Medzibezh, Podolia, Berdyczewski was the descendant of a line of ? Asidic rabbis. … Berdyczewski wrote more than 150 Hebrew stories, many in Yiddish, and several in German. These stories deal with two central subjects: life in the Jewish towns of Eastern Europe in the last decades of the 19th century and the life of the Eastern European Jewish students in the cities of Central and Western Europe. … One of the most seminal figures in both modern Hebrew literature and Jewish thought, Berdyczewski exerted a subtle yet crucial influence upon many readers after the turn of the century because he embodied, both in his personality and in his writing, the painfully ambivalent attitudes toward both traditional Judaism and European culture shared by many Jewish intellectuals. Characteristically, Berdyczewski rebelled against his religious background, but could never completely reject it. ” - EJ 2008. Subjects: Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph, 1865-1921 - Bibliography. OCLC lists 13 copies. Light soiling to wraps, previous owners name in pencil on endpages, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (GER-44-30)

Original Cloth. 8vo. 433 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish Edition. “Mutual Aid amongst Modern Men: A Factor of Evolution. ” Translated by J. A. Meryson; Mutual Aid, one of Kropotkin’s most famous works, a collection of essays detailing social and biological patterns grounding social cooperation and mutual aid amongst the determinants of human social evolution; as well as examples of mutual aid to be found in plant and animal life. Subjects: Cooperation. Social groups. Sociology. Anarchism; writers of international importance; Petr A. Kropotkin (author) Anarchisme; auteurs van internationale betekenis; werken van Petr A. Kropotkin. Yiddish Anarchism. Institutional marks on title page, endpages, and backstrip condition. Otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (YID-19-3)

Cloth, 8vo, 381 pages. 23 cm. SUBJECT(S): Hebrew literature -- Soviet Union. Yiddish literature -- Translations into Hebrew. Yiddish literature -- Soviet Union. Very Good Condition. (GER-38-51)

(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 125, XXXV pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish; with preface and introduction in English. English title page: “Selected songs and Poems. ” Edited and with a preface and introduction by Alfred T. Reingold, and a critical and biographical essay by A. Margolin. Bound in elaborate decorative cloth and boards, with frontispiece portrait of the poet and eleven pages of music notation. Dual Yiddish-English book of Isaac Reingold’s works compiled by his son, Alfred T. Reingold, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his father’s death. “When Isaac Reingold died one hundred years ago in Chicago, he was mourned as ‘the greatest Yiddish poet in the west. ’ As a pioneer folk poet and lyricist for the theater, Reingold wrote during the same era as the proletarian poets David Edelstadt, Morris Winchevsky, Joseph Bovshover, and Morris Rosenfeld. Although Reingold’s name is almost completely forgotten today, his songs were among the most popular of his time. Reingold was born near Luck [known as ’Lutsk’ in Yiddish], Wolyn, Poland, in 1873. His real name was Toomim. In 1890 or ’91, he came to America with his father and worked hard in the sweatshops of Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, and New York. In Chicago, he was known not only as a poet, but also as a singer of labor and folk songs. He would perform at gatherings and in concert halls, and the songs were heartily embraced, especially by working folk. Over time he also became well-known in the theatrical circles. He wrote an opera, ‘By the Rivers of Babylon, ’ that was successfully staged in Chicago. At about 30 years of age, his life was cut short. He was a victim of the proletarian disease—tuberculosis. Reingold’s songs focus on social motifs. As N. B. Minkoff writes, ‘His songs are, for the most part, imbued with humility, melancholy, and tears. His mood is that of an innocent, downtrodden person. His tone is quiet and gloomy. ’ He called himself a ‘poet of tears’ and wrote about the difficult and bitter condition of the worker in the sweatshop. ‘The worker only creates goods for others; for himself, he is left with poverty and grief…’ One of the best-known of Reingold’s songs is ‘Two Friends, ’ which tells of Shmulik and Azrielik [this name later changed by singers to Gavrilik], who played together when they were growing up, ‘with horses, with swords, in the sand and in the dirt—Shmulik is the lasher, Azrielik, the horse. ’ They arrive in the Golden Land and are no longer friends. Shmulik becomes a ‘little boss, ’ a ‘landlord, ’ and Azrielik becomes his ‘hand’ and lives in ‘the basement, in the gutter. ’ Even in Heaven, it’s the same: ‘Shmulik is the lasher, Azrielik, the horse. ’ For Reingold, the end to all the troubles will come when Jews return to the Land of Israel: ‘Live on, Jew. Your country, your old Palestine, the old Mother Zion, can once again blossom and become fertile, as once upon a time…’ Reingold wrote on historical motifs, among them a eulogy for the cruel, hateful Tsar Alexander III, upon whom he pours curses. He wrote on national motifs, such as the song ‘I Am a Jew, ’ concerning Jerusalem; ‘Judah Maccabee, ’ regarding Jewish holidays; and even in praise of Jewish food, as in his ode to a favorite dish, concluding, ‘Oy, long live the Jewish kugel! ’ One of his famous songs, sung in the play, ‘Khokhmes Noshim’ (The Wisdom of Women) , is ‘A Year After the Wedding, ’ in which a wife bewails her lot; how, in the course of a year, she has become a wife and a damale, a servant and a mamale. She swears that it’s better to remain a moyd—an old maid. Reingold also wrote Yiddish lyrics to American popular songs of the 1890s. [Often cheated, he received little or no payment. ] His songs were unique and beloved by the public. Played on simpatico accordions, they matched the moods of his readers and listeners. His nationalist songs awakened a Jewish consciousness, and his rhyming couplets brought rare moments of relief and pleasure to the toiling immigrants of that era. Isaac’s widow, Anna, lived until 1950. She and their three children made their homes in the Chicago area. Only the late Alfred, a scientist, took the name Reingold. The late Bess Toomim Weinstein, a music lover, lived in the Ravinia area of Highland Park. Her daughter, Jean, is a professional musician now living in London, England. The late Phillip Toomin was a LaSalle Street lawyer who resided in Glencoe. (He changed the last letter of the family name. ) His son is Appellate Judge Michael P. Toomin, First District, 5th Division. ” (Isaac Reingold, “The Greatest Yiddish Poet of the West” by Bev Chubat, in Chicago Jewish History, Vol. 33, no. 4, Fall 2009) . Subjects: Yiddish poetry. Light wear to edges of cloth, otherwise fine. Very good condition. (ART-18-1)

(FT) Publishers cloth. 4to. 32 pages. 27 cm. First edition. A finely made artist book, comprised of hand-drawn calligraphic type and illustrations. Designed by Zuni Maud (1891-1956) , poems written by Abraham Moses Dillon (1883–1934) ; “Dillon was born in Russia. In 1909 he immigrated to the United States where he experienced years of hunger and hard physical labor. As a poet, he was affiliated with the New York impressionistic movement Di Yunge. His melancholy lyrics were published in anthologies and in the book Gele Bleter (Yellow Leaves, 1919) . A more complete edition of his work, Lider fun A. M. Dillon, appeared in 1935.” (EJ 2007) Yellow Leaves concerns a wondrous poet who carried a beggars bag of yellow leaves which frightens everyone around him. Subjects: Yiddish Poetry. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Covers soiled, water stain on lower portion of pages throughout, not affecting text. First double leaf previously torn at edge and separated. Otherwise fresh. Good condition. (ART-18-14)

First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 257 pages. 26cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Selected Pearls from Our Cultural Milieu. " SUBJECTS: Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Old Testament. Bible. O. T. Pentateuch -- Sermons. Includes inscription from author of this books foreword, Dr. Shlomo Goldman. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-27-50-L'e)

Original Cloth. 8vo. VI, 508 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German. 'History of the Jews of Baden since the Reign of Charles Frederick, 1738-1909'. Bound in original dark blue cloth. Important source for history of the Jewish communities in Baden in the modern period; especially details the struggles for emancipation, the jewish communities during the revolutionary periods (especially the 1806 and 1848 periods) , and state recognition. Adolf Lewin (1843–1910) , “German rabbi and historian. Lewin, who was born in Pinne, Prussian Posen, studied in Breslau at the Jewish theological seminary and at the university there, obtaining his doctorate for the thesis Die Makkabaeische Erhebung (1870) . He served as rabbi at Koschmin (from 1872) , Coblenz (1878) , and Freiburg im Breisgau (from 1885) . ” - EJ 2008 Subjects: Jews - Germany - Baden - History. Jews. History. Baden. Juden. Germany - Baden. Light soiling to cloth and upper outer edge, otherwise very fresh. Very good + condition. (GER-43-44)

1st eition. Paper wrappers, 8vo, 206 pages. Includes illustrations & facsimiles. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Early report, from before the war's end, on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Geographic: Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Clean and fresh. Very good. (HOLO2-98-26)

First edition. Original paper wrappers 8vo. 95 pages. 16cm. Includes frontis portrait plate and map. Title translates to "Berdychiv: What was Once a City. " By the end of the 18th century, Berdychiv became an important center of Hasidism. In the 1920s, Yiddish language was officially recognized and in 1924 but in the 1930s, the use of Yiddish was curtailed and all Jewish cultural activities were suspended before World War II. Most civilians from areas near the border did not have a chance to evacuate when the Nazis began their invasion on June 22, 1941. An "extermination" unit was established in Berdychiv in early July 1941 and a Jewish ghetto was set up. It was liquidated on October 5, 1941, after all the inhabitants were murdered. The Nazis killed about 20, 000 to 30, 000 Jews who had not evacuated Berdychiv. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Ukraine -- Berdychiv -- Anecdotes. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Berdychiv. Wrappers are lightly soiled with some chips to the spine. Binding repaired. (YID-27-3)

New York, No Publisher (United Hebrew Trades) , 1928. Paper Wrappers, Large 4to, 160 pages. 30 cm. In Yiddish. Includes beautiful cover art and period ads and portrait photos. Feinstone (1878-1945),was born in Warsaw and trained as a woodcarver there. "After completing school he emigrated to England where he became president of a woodcarvers' union in London (1895). Later in Birmingham he was active in the beginnings of the British Labour Party. In 1910 Feinstone emigrated to the U.S. where he found employment in various skilled trades, securing permanent work in the umbrella industry. He soon became an official of the Umbrella Handle and Stick Makers' Union and an important figure in the United Hebrew Trades, an organization which sheltered the smaller and weaker American Jewish trade unions. Feinstone was a close associate of the organization's outstanding leader, Max Pine, whom he succeeded as United Hebrew Trades' secretary in 1928. Feinstone continued Pine's policy of supporting the socialist labor sector in Jewish Palestine through the Histadrut. He also represented the United Hebrew Trades on the executive board of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York, wrote articles in the New York Call and the Yiddish Jewish Daily Forward endorsing socialism and labor Zionism, and worked for the establishment of an independent labor party. With the advent of the New Deal, Feinstone's socialist teachings were incorporated by the American Labor Party, which satisfied his desire for a working class political organization. Thereafter, until his death he concentrated on obtaining support for Jewish labor in Palestine" (Melvyn Dubofsky in EJ). SUBJECT(S):Jewish labor unions -- United States. Jewish socialists -- United States. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Harvard, Florida, NYPL), none west of New York. Tears to front cover, lacks rear cover, otherwise Good Condition. (Y-18C)

Publishers Cloth. 8vo. 107, 149, 137, 134, 122, 133, 91, 120, 88 pages. 22 cm. Second edition. A collection of Ibsen's dramatic work in Yiddish. Collected Plays of Ibsen, four volumes in one, containing nine plays: volume 1. Nora. Di vilde ente - volume 2. Hedda Gabler. Der boymaster - volume 3. Rozmersholm. Di froy fun yam - volume 4. Der klayner Eolf. Yohan Gabriel Borkman. Ven mir toyte ervakhen. With original title pages for each volume, separating each section. Originally published 1910 by Mayzel. Translated by A. Frumkin. Subjects: Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 - Translations into Yiddish. Yiddish Plays. OCLC lists 6 copies of this edition (14 copies of the first edition) . Cloth lightly soiled, writing on backstrip (Ibsen and title in yiddish script) ; internally clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YID-18-15)

Publishers Cloth. 8vo. 137, 134 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Dramatic works of Ibsen, including Hedda Gabler and Der Boymayster. Bound in red cloth, with gilt title. Subjects: Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 14 copiees. Light shelf wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YID-18-17)

Original red boards with black wreath and borders. 8vo. 255 pages; 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Collected Writings. ” Volume 3 of 10 volumes published between 1912-1919. Chaim Zhitlowsky “was a Jewish socialist, philosopher, social and political thinker, writer and literary critic born in Ushachy, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire. He was a founding member of the Union of Russian Socialist Revolutionaries, later, a founding member and theoretician of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia; and an ideologist of Yiddishism and Jewish Diaspora nationalism, which influenced the Jewish territorialist and nationalist movements. He was an advocate of Yiddish language and culture and was a vice-president of the Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference of 1908, which declared Yiddish to be ‘a national language of the Jewish people’” (Wikipedia 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish literature. Browning to pages. Rubbing to cover boards. Minimal pencil markings that somewhat affect text. Very good condition. (YID-25-12)

1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers. 12mo (small) , 18 pages, 16cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Healthy Shall You Be. ” Cover title. Advice for US Jewish WW I Soldiers about not contracting venereal disease. SUBJECT(S) : Military hygiene. Sexually transmitted diseases. OCLC: 507150715. Exceedingly scarce, with OCLC listing only 1 copy worldwide (Columbia) . Presumably most were discarded by Jewish doughboys after reading. Old dampstains, with covers fragile with bit of edgewear. Otherwise solid and good. Rare. (yid-29-30)

(FT) Cloth, small 8vo, 125 pages, in Yiddish. First edition. “Zishe Weinper (pseudonym of Zise Weinperlech; 1893–1957) , was a Yiddish poet, short story writer, editor, and essayist. Weinper was born into a Hasidic family in Turisk (Ukraine) . His father was a cantor and a member of the Trisker rebbe's inner circle. As a youth, Weinper wandered throughout the Ukraine and Poland and in 1910 moved to Warsaw, where he began his literary career. In 1913 he emigrated to the U. S. , where he became associated with the Yiddish literary group Di Yunge. He continued his literary activities while also working as a house painter and elementary school teacher. In 1917, he edited the literary journal Der Onh eyb, which included his own works as well as those of his contemporaries such as B. J. Bialostotsky, Aaron Nissenson, and Naphtali Gross. In 1918, Weinper joined the British Jewish Legion and served in the Middle East. After returning to New York, he resumed publishing his poems, short stories, and essays in Yiddish publications such as Morgn-Zhurnal, Fraye Arbeter Shtime, and Tsukunft. The Depression of the early 1930s and the rise of Hitler in 1933 led him to join the radical left, and he became the poet and moving spirit of the Yidisher Kultur Farband, the leftist Yiddish cultural federation. His lyric volumes Poemen Vegn di Neviim (‘Poems about the Prophets, ’ 1951) and Leyd un Freyd (‘Sorrow and Happiness, ’ 1954) gave expression to his later, less optimistic moods” (Jewish Virtual Library, 2012) . SUBJECT(S) : Children’s poertry --- Yiddish. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Clear dustjacket, cover bumped, inner pages clean, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-8)

1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 8vo. 104 pages 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Goldfaden Book.” A biography by Abraham Goldfaden. Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) was a famous Jewish Russian-American poet, playwright, stage director, and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew plays. He is considered the father of modern Jewish theater. While in Romania in 1876, he founded the first Yiddish-language theater troupe (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS: Theater, Yiddish -- History -- Sources. OCLC: 19312892. Front Wrapper features a peculiar drawing entitled “Ashmedai” (Asmodeus), the prince of demons. Front wrapper has damp stain in top margin. Contents good. (YID-33-8-BLX+-’e)

Original Publisher’s Cloth. 8vo. X, 284, xxvi pages. Final Section in Hebrew. "Gratz College is the oldest independent college of Jewish studies in North America." (EJ) CONTENTS: "A Community's Involvement in Jewish Education," Mitchell E. panzer, "Problems of Pronunciation in Hebrew," William Chomsky, "A Note on Disinterment in Jeremiah," Morton Cogan, "Being Jewish: An Approach to Conceptualization and Operationalization," Arnold Dashefsky, "The Ancestral Heritage of the Gratz Family," Sidney M. Fish, "The Ransom clause of the Jewsih Marriage Contract," Mordechai A. friedman, "Some Aspects of the Development of Ivrit BeIvrit in America," Elazar Goelman, "Side Lights on Jewsih Education from the cairo Geniza," S.D. Goitein, "Vergil and the Bible World," Cyrus H. Gordon, "Bishop to Bishop 1," Solomon Grayzel, "Jewish Education in America-1971: An Analysis," Daniel Isaacman, "Kes and Its Fate: Laments, Blessings, Omens, "Samuel Noah Kramer," "Option for Survival," Samuel Kurland, "Midrash Hillel and Merkavah Mysticism, Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The First Yiddish Language Conference," Isadore David Passow, "Rapoport's Contribution to Jewish Historiography, " Samuel Pitnik, "Seventy-Five Years in Jewish Music, " Claire Polin Schaff, "The restoration of Fragmentary Aramaic Marriage Contracts, " Bezalel Porten, "Inversions in Rashi's Commentary, " Esra Shereshevsky, "Rabbinic Homilies and Cognate Languages, " Nahum M. Waldman, Financial Arrangements for a Widow in a Cairo Geniza, " Gershon Weiss and three articles in Hebrew. Very good condition. (FEST1-9)

(FT) Illustrated Boards, 8vo. , 234 pages. In Yiddish. “Borders up to Heaven” SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Bold graphic on cover. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Wear to spine and covers. Text in very good condition. (HOLO2-85-6)

1st edition. Original lithographed broadsheet (24 x 17.5 cm). In Latvian and Yiddish. Translates as, “B[er] Borochov Memorial Evening/Academy.” A broadsheet announcing a memorial evening on Dov Ber Borochov, one of the founders of the Zionist Labor movement, by the United Zionist-Socialist Party of the Jewish Workers Youth. The event was held on Friday, December 16th at the Jewish Primary School (Lacpelsa street no. 141) in Riga. The guest speakers included Dr. J. Helmanis, prof. M. Lazersons, I . Meiersons, L. Laks. Presumed date of 1927 is based on day/date alignment (could also be 1932 or possibly 1938). Very good condition. (Latyid-2-3)

Original wraps. 8vo. [10] pages. 23 cm. First edition. Guide to the Judaica Microfiche and Microfilm resources at Harvard; with sections devoted to bibliographies, dissertations, manucscripts, periodicals, Yiddish books, Hebrew books, Israel, and special topics. Subjects: Jews - History - Sources - Bibliography. Harvard University. Library - Microform catalogs. OCLC lists 18 copies. Light soiling to outer edges of wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (BIBLIOG-30-22)

(FT) Cloth, 4to, 112 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- fasts, feasts, festival ---- juvenile. OCLC lists 31 copies worldwide. Edgewear to covers, pages slightly tanned, personal writing on first page, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-29A)

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 445, [9], [12] pages. 22 cm. Edition. In Hebrew; one appendix in Russian; added t. P. And introductory matter in English. Folded map attached to lining paper. A history of the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidjan, with detailed sections on immigration and population figures, local and international funding and support for the colonization project, industry, agriculture, forestry, construction, handicrafts, medical services, literature, art, education and culture, Jewish life in the region, and the place of Yiddish. In the series: Sidrat "Galuyot" volume 2. Subjects: Birobidzhan (Russia) - History. Light soiling to cloth and outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-5-43A) Xx

Original Boards. 8vo. 182 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. 'The Calendar and its Chronological Use: A reference book for technical and historical chronology. ' With material on the Tequfah of Nisan, Tequfot reckoning, chronology, material on conversion of dates (including conversion of Jewish-Christian-Moslem dates) . Avraham Aryeh Leib Akavya (Yakobovits) (1882–1964) , “Polish-born Hebrew and Yiddish writer and editor. After the publication of his first story in David Frischmann's Ha-Dor (1901) , Akavya became a steady contributor to the Hebrew press and literary periodicals. He also wrote stories and novels in Yiddish, and translated from Yiddish to Hebrew. Akavya edited several Yiddish weeklies, the Hebrew daily Ha-Boker (with D. Frischmann (1909) ) , the biweekly for youth Shibbolim, and (after World War I) Ha-Zefirah and Ha-Yom. He went to Palestine in 1935 and was an editor of the short Massadah encyclopedia and later the chief editor of the Yizre'el encyclopedia. He devoted many years of research to the Hebrew calendar and published various books on the subject. ” - EJ 2008 Subjects: Jewish calendar. Jewish chronology. OCLC lists 16 copies. Scarce. Light wear to boards, bookplate on endpage, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (BIBLE-14-20)

First Hebrew edition. Period half-calf marbled boards, 12mo, (8) 136 pages. The author contends here that prior to the 17th century the lingua franca of the Jews of Russia, Poland and Lithuania was the Slavic languages of their neighbors. He proves this by demonstrating that the Jewish community of the region was descended from ancient Jewish settlements in the Caucasus and Crimea, and not from the Yiddish-speaking immigrants who came from German lands much later. Harkavys research on the origin of the Jews of Russia was tied to a political effort to secure equality of rights for Russian Jews. Friedberg, Yud 313. Ex library, one board detached, otherwise Good Condition (RAB-62-14)

No Date (early 1900s)“New illustrated edition.” Undated early 19th Century reprint of the 1859 Frank illustrated hagadah (so dated on the illustrated reverse of the title page). Publisher’s printed boards, 60 pages. Includes. illustrations ; 23 cm. In English and Hebrew on facing columns.Includes Yiddish translation of Adir Hu. SUBJECT(S): Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Passover -- Liturgy -- Haggadot. Judaism -- Texts.OCLC: 868073931. OCLC lists a total of 6 holdings for any Werbelowsky hagadah printings, some undated (as this edition) and some dated 1901 (and one incorrectly attributed to the 1859 Frank date, long before Werbelowsky existed as a publisher). Not listed in Yaari, unknown to Goldman. Expected wine stains, some light wear, Good+ Condition. (hag-25-11)

Later Boards. 8vo. 94, [3] pages. 21 cm. Text in vocalized Hebrew; translation and commentary in Yiddish. Yaari, 2603. Publishers Address: 632-34 Broadway. Stereotype printed. Last three pages mispaginated: 47-49, contains Shir ha-shirim. Original cloth rebacked over later boards. Subjects: Haggadot - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts. Haggadot. Judaism - Liturgy. OCLC lists 9 copies. Edges lightly soiled, some lightly chipped; overall fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HAG-16-8)

1st edition. Original Boards with dust jacket, Folio, 92 pages, illustrated, 36 cm. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Text in English & Hebrew; ceremonial directions in English. Hebrew title romanized. “Ha-tsiyurim ma’aseh yede Sha’ul Raskin” on title page verso. Imprint from title page verso. Color printing; title page in green and purple. Other Titles: Haggadah. English & Hebrew. Raskin (1878-1966) was an “illustrator, painter, printmaker, critic. Born in Nogaisk, Russia, Raskin studied lithography in Odessa, and attended art academies in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. In 1904, he emigrated to the U. S. He worked in many media and garnered a reputation for his draftsmanlike attention to detail and his realistic approach. His imagery depicted scenes of Jewish life, especially that of New York’s Lower East Side. His trips to Palestine yielded many representations of that country’s Jewish population, among them twenty lithographs of Jerusalem. Raskin also illustrated many Hebrew texts, including Pirke Aboth, the Haggadah, Psalms, the Siddur, Kabbalah in Word and Image, and other works with Jewish content, such as Hebrew Rhapsody. Pirke Aboth demonstrates Raskin’s wonderful sense of design; he makes dramatic use of blank space as a component of his compositions as well as underscores the meaning of each of the book’s sections with a powerful combination of human and fantastic forms, each revealing carefully rendered details of expression. Raskin was the art and theater critic for the Yiddish weekly magazine Does Neie Land. In 1911, Raskin’s “The Future of Jewish Art, ” appeared in the magazine. In the article, Raskin bemoans the inability to find common Jewish attributes in the works of such artists as Antokolsky, Israels, Liebermann, and Pissarro. Raskin postulated that a Jewish Art (sic) might emerge through the identification of common themes and subjects in the work of his contemporaries, specifically in genre and history paintings, rather than through an examination of the widely varied techniques, forms, and styles used by artists of Jewish heritage. Raskin’s work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy. His work has been collected by many major museums and galleries, including the Brooklyn Museum” (Buchwald in EJ, 2007) . Very Good Conditionin Very Good Jacket. A beautiful copy. (HAG-8-28D) xx

Original Wraps. 8vo. 48 pages. 25 cm. In Hebrew and English in facing columns, with Yiddish on title page. Passover Hagadah, compliments of Yeshivas Ohel Torah, 269 East 4th Street, New York. Fundraising tool for Yeshivas Ohel Torah, which served approximately 400 students at the time, mostly children from the poorest section of the lower east side. Includes photographs of students studying on center pages. Heavily illustrated. Silver wraps and blue ink, with wraps photograph of the Yeshiva, and the world in flames. Undated. Pages internally printed in black ink. Subjects: Haggadot - Texts. Seder - Liturgy - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy – Texts. OCLC lists 6 copies of all editions (dated 1944-1955) . Light wear to wraps, overall very fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HAG-13-46)

Original decorated boards in original decorated slipcase. First facsimile edition. 4to, 68 pages, all color facsimile, 33 cm. SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism -- Sephardic rite -- Liturgy -- Texts. Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts. Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Facsimiles. Copenhagen Haggadah. Haggadah. Text in Hebrew; rubrics in Ladino and Yiddish. Colophon title. Spine title: Hagadah. Caption title: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah ke-minhag Ashkenazim ukhe-minhag Sefaradim. “'Im perush Abravanell”--Caption title page. “ha-Kotev ... Uri Faybesh ben ... Yitshak Ayzak Hazan Segal”--Originial colophon. Facsimile of a manuscript in the Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark) . Accompanied by introductory material in English and Hebrew, including 2 bibliographies, prepared by Chaya Benjamin. Other Titles: Haggadah (Ms. Copenhagen Haggadah) ; Copenhagen Haggadah. ; Hagadat Kopenhagen, 499.; Seder Hagadah shel Pesah ke-minhag Ashkenazim ukhe-minhag Sefaradim. ; Hagadah. Very good condition in Very Good Slipcase. (Art-14-2) xx

First edition. Original boards, 8vo, 474 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Germany -- History -- To 1096. Rabbis -- Germany. Jewish scholars -- Germany. Judaism -- Germany -- History. Ethnic relations. Jewish scholars. Jews. Judaism. Rabbis.. Very Good Condition. (AC-2-1)

(FT) Cloth, large 8vo. , 225 pages. Illustrated. In Yiddish. Includes fold out with illustrations and photographs. Published in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. “Fifty Years of Jewish Education”. Golomb’s memoirs of growing up as a student and then a teacher in Russia, Poland, Israel, Canada and the U. S. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Education. Teachers -- Correspondence. Added title page: Meio seculo de educacao Judaica. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Light wear and slight warping to covers. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-1-16)

8vo. 368 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) Aufsatzsammlung Rumanien Juden. In very good condition (Bible-6-17) .

First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 36 pages. 24 cm. In Yiddish with alternate Spanish title page and introduction. Title translates to "The Peretz Pentateuch: Selected Writings of Y. L. Peretz. " Yitskhok Leybush Peretz (18521915) is one the best known Yiddish and Hebrew authors of the 19th century. Peretz was one of the three classic Yiddish writers with S. Y. Abramovitsh and Sholem Aleichem and the founder of Yiddish modernism. In the first decade of the 20th century he was at the center of an active literary circle in Warsaw. The present work is a sample of a larger 5 volume series. SUBJECTS: Yiddish. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (YIVO, Harvard, Bayerische) . Ex-library with usual markings. Bound in a cardboard protector. Binding is starting. Very clean copy. (YID-27-5)

Original colored printed wrappers, 8vo, 159 pages. Mimeographed Hebrew text with musical notes, additional instructions in Yiddish. Portrait of author on verso of upper wrapper. Good condition, with light browning, slight chips, and spine taped. (RAB-62-5)