Item 8512. HISTORISHE SHRIFTN [ERSHTER BAND]

HISTORISHE SHRIFTN [ERSHTER BAND]

Varshe; Kultur-Lige, 1929. Item #35312

Original Cloth. 4to. L, 826 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In Yiddish, with abstracts in Polish, added title page in Polish. Pisma Historyczne, Tom 1. First volume of the Historishe Shriftn (Historical Writings) of the Historical Section of the YIVO. Articles by S. Dubnow, I. Shiper, N. M. Gelber, E. Ringelblum, Z. Rubashov, H. Borodianski, A. Menes, S. Barkin, I. Shatzky, A. Tcherikower, M. Balaban, A. Landoy, P. Kon, N. Prilutski, and others. Articles on Moses Mendelssohn, the family letters of Ferdinand Lasalle (with facsimiles) , the life and writings of Nathan ben Moses Hannover, the Jews in Poland in the 10th and 11th centuries, Jews in Medieval Warsaw, the struggle for Jewish emancipation in England, Jews in the Polish uprising of 1863, the Jewish Socialist Movement, the 1876 Articles of the Jewish Socialist Union in London with facsimile, history of the first Russian-Yiddish journal; reports of Materials and Documents held at archives and research institutes. Edited by Elias Tcherikower (1881–1943) , “historian of Russian Jewish life and anti-Jewish violence … a founder of the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut—YIVO—and thereafter headed its Historical Section and edited the three volumes of its Historishe shriftn. ” - YIVO Encyclopedia. Bound in publishers black cloth, gilt title on cover, red leather gilt pastedown on backstrip. Subjects: Jews – Europe. Eastern - History. Jewish socialists - Europe, Eastern - History. Jews - History. Ethnic relations. Jewish socialists. Jews. History. Europe, Eastern - Ethnic relations. Boards worn and rubbed, lightly soiled. Institutional stamps on endpages. Pages lightly aged, some smudges to margins. Overall good. Good + condition. (YID-21-18) xx.

Price: $150.00