DI YUDEN IN ARGENTINE: IN DER FERGANGENHAYT UN IN DER GEGENVART IN VORT UN IN BILD ISRAELITAS EN LA ARGENTINA: EN EL PASADO Y EN LA ACTUALIDAD די יודען אין ארגענטינע: אין דער פערגאנגענהײט און אין דער געגענװארט אין װארט און אין בילד
Buenos Ayres: M. Orlof, 1914. Item #43499
First edition. Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 202 pages, includes illustrations, portraits. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Jews in Argentina: Past and Present in Word and Image.”
Early and rare work of Jewish history in Argentina written by one of the few chroniclers of the community and its history.
“[Goldman] was born in Kalarash (Calara'i), Bessarabia. In 1889 he was brought to Argentina, where his father Arn was a ritual slaughterer and leader of the Orthodox community in the colony of Mozesville.He wrote correspondence pieces on the life of Jewish immigrants for Hamelits (The Advocate) and Hatsfira (The Siren). He contributed to various Jewish newspapers and to Yor-Bukh fun Yidishn Yishev in Argentine (Yearbook of the Jewish Settlement in Argentina)...Among his books: Di Yidn in Argentine in der Fargangenheyt un in der Kegnvart in Bild un in Vort (Jews in Argentina Past and Present in Image and Word), 2 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1914), 202 pp.” (Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur)
“We know a lot about Argentina’s Yiddish pioneers thanks to Pinie Katz, a journalist who years later, in 1929, published in Buenos Aires a book titled Tsu der geshijte fun der idisher dyurnalistik in Argentine (with a Spanish title, Apuntes para la historia del periodismo judío en la Argentina), which tells the story of the Jewish press in Argentina between 1898 to 1914. That last year, David Goldman wrote in his book Di Yuden in Argentine (Jews in Argentina) that there was a “mass of corpses in Argentina’s literary cemetery,” referring to the high number of newspapers that were short-lived. Goldman calculated that up until 1914, some 40 newspapers had sprung up, and in 1951 the magazine Der Shpigl defined that early period as ‘the heroic era of Jewish journalism’ in Argentina.” (Tablet Magazine)
SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Argentina -- History. Jews. OCLC: 82948655. OCLC locates only 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, YIVO), none outside the Northeast).
Repaired spine but otherwise in very good shape. Good+ Condition. (PSB-1-11).
Price: $600.00