[A 1942 Call for a Jewish Army to Fight the Nazis] Hodes, Leivick

TSI IZ NOYTIK A YIDISHE ARMAY? [TSU, ARMEY]

New York: Farlag Medem-Klub, 1942. Item #43432

1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 39 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Is it Necessary to have a Jewish Army?” A leading Bundist journalist’s call for a Jewish Brigade in WW II to fight the Nazis. “Our answers are based on the firm conviction that Jewish misery and Jewish pain are part of the evil that prevails in the world today; that in a world of slavery and chains, this misfortune will follow and follow the path of the Jewish masses, where they will not escape from it; That in such a world, Palestinian’s [i.e. the Jews in Palestine] and everyone else's own ‘territory’ can be the bitterest exile; and that, on the other hand, in a liberated world, the earth under their feet will become the most beautiful and safest home, where the Jewish masses will enjoy full civil and national rights as people and as Jews.The answers are filled with steel certainty, that today the world stands on the threshold of liberation, that the terrible sufferings will not be in vain, that in pain, misery and suffering, a new better world is born; A world of exploiters and exploited, a world of true equality and freedom.Today, the eyes and hearts of the Jewish masses in the ghettos are turned to this world. To this world will turn their eyes all those who are able to take the voice of the ghetto.For this world, today, in the ghettos and on all the battlefields of the earth, proud hosts of Jewish fighters are bleeding, as Jewish parts of the great freedom army of humanity, which is marching towards the new tomorrow” (from the conclusion).

Contents include:
• The commotion around the Jewish army
• Behind the ghetto walls
• Death diagnoses instead of help
• The crooked mirror
• Where did “unity” come from?
• The Zionist Department Star
• About dual citizenship
• “The right to fight”
• Our answer to Hitler
• Flag, emblem and equal rights
• The Jewish account of the world
• In the land of bitterest “exile”
• “Safety on the Volcano"
• There is an advice
• Sober warnings and reality
• “Shame" of the Palestinian Jewish youth
• About apparition
• Who will protect the Near East?
• For whom the Jewish army is necessary
• The voice of the ghetto

Series: Bibliotek "Unzer tsayt," No. 1. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Politics and government. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade.
OCLC: 19313178/970890673. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, YU). Pen mark and toning to front wrapper, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important (B) (holo2-163-17C-XX-ECC*X-BBIMM@+).

Price: $425.00