KAMPF UN KEMPFER קעמפ און קעממפער
London: L. Goldenberg, Russian Free Press Fund, 1904. Item #43502
First edition. Period boards with original paper wrappers bound, 8vo, 48 pages, includes portraits of both Frumkin and Gershuni. 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Fights and Fighters.”
First issue of a short-lived (1904-1905) Bundist journal with contributions from Ester Frumkin and Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni. Includes two articles: (1) “Ester Frumkin and Her Process” and (2) “Gerhsuni’s Speech.”
“Esther Frumkin became active among the Social Democrats in Minsk in 1896; she joined the Bund in 1901 and engaged mainly in disseminating propaganda. During the inter-revolutionary period, 1905 to 1917, Frumkin was imprisoned numerous times for her revolutionary activities. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, she became a member of the central committee of the Bund as well as the Minsk municipal and community councils. She was later the primary spokesperson for official position of the Central Board of the Jewish Sections of the Communist Party in the USSR” (Jewish Women’s Archive).
Gershuni was “a founding member of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party and one of the leaders of its Combat Organization. Grigorii Gershuni was born near Kaunas, Lithuania. Some sources describe him as a chemist, while others call him a pharmacist. He joined the revolutionary movement, and by the late 1890s had become an important promoter of socialist and anarchist ideas…In 1904, Gershuni was sentenced to death, but the verdict was commuted to life imprisonment. After various stays in prisons in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Akatui (in eastern Siberia), he escaped in 1906 and left Russia by way of China, moved to the United States, and ended up among fellow Russian revolutionaries-in-exile in Zurich, where he died of tuberculosis” (YIVO).
SUBJECT(S): Bund. OCLC: 316146741. OCLC locates only 1 copy worldwide (UvAmsterdam).
Early stamp of the “Sotsialistisher Klub Bund” and some other early institutional marks. Original covers fragile. Good Condition. Rare. (PSB-1-8).
Price: $675.00