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(Xt) Zhitlowsky, Chaim, 1865-1943 : GEZAMELTE SHRIFTEN VOL. 3

Nyu York, Zhitlowsky,, 1912

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)

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