DI ONHOYBN FUN DER EMIGRATSYE UN KOLONIZATSYE BAY YIDN IN 19-TN YORHUNDERT
Berlin; Farlag "Emigdirekt" 1929. Item #31715
Original Wraps. 8vo. 70 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Back cover title: Die Anfange der Emigration und Kolonisation bei den Juden im XIX. Jahrhundert. ‘The beginnings of colonization and emigration of the Jews in the nineteenth century’, a detailed monograph with demographic statistics by Jakob Lestschinsky (1876–1966) , “historian and sociologist; specialist in Jewish demography and economic history. … In 1921, Lestschinsky worked in Berlin as a correspondent for the New York Yiddish daily Forverts, and continued to write for this newspaper for more than 40 years. Conducting extensive research on the economic and social history of East European Jews, he was one of the founding members of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and participated in the inaugural meeting of its Historical Section in Berlin on 31 October 1925. Lestschinsky edited Bleter far yidisher demografye, statistik, un ekonomik, which appeared in Berlin from 1923 until 1925. He laid the groundwork for the Economic-Statistical Section of YIVO, which he headed from its inception in 1926, and edited its publications Ekonomishe shriftn and Yidishe ekonomik. ” (YIVO Encyclopedia) . Subjects: Jews - Migrations. Jews - Colonization. OCLC lists 12 copies. Light soiling, light edgewear to wraps. Otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (YID-18-7).
Price: $100.00