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![Item 243666. YUGNT-VEKER. ORGAN GEVIDMET DI INTERESN FUN DER ARBAYTER-YUGNT. VOL. 6,1927, NRS. 3-9, 11-23, NEARLY COMPLETE VOLUME. [20 ISSUES] [JUGNT-WEKER]](/pictures/thumb/42117.jpg?v=1674333849)
Varsha [Warsaw]: Di Velt, 1927. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 4to (tabloid format) , 16 pages each issue (a few double issues with more pages). Many with photos or Socialist Realism illustrations on cover. In Yiddish. Title translates as "The Youth Alarm." From the period of rapid growth of the..... More
![Item 869. YUGNT-VEKER. ORGAN GEVIDMET DI INTERESN FUN DER ARBAYTER-YUGNT. VOLS 6 & 7 [1927 & 1928], NEARLY COMPLETE: VOL 6, NRS 1-9, 11-24; VOL 7, NRS 1-3, 5, 7-24. [45 ISSUES TOTAL] [WHOLE NRS 38-84, NOTE NUMBERING ERRORS] [JUGNT-WEKER]](/pictures/thumb/16289.jpg?v=1674332476)
Varsha [Warsaw]: Di Velt, 1927-28. 1st edition. Period Cloth with additional cover mounted on front [with 3 issues loose], 4to (tabloid format) , 16 pages each issue (a few double issues with more pages). Many with photos or Socialist Realism illustrations on cover. In Yiddish. Title translates as "The Youth..... More
New York; A. Lamberger, 1950. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 256, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. A study of the religious life of the communities bordering on Hungary and Rumania, with many documents concerning the rabbinate. Subjects: Jews - Romania - Transylvania. Jews - Romania - History. OCLC..... More
Frankfurt Am Main; Büro Der "agudas Jisroel" [1912]. Original Wraps. 8vo. 155 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German with some Hebrew. 'Agudas Yisroel'; Reports and materials. Compiled by the Provisorischen Comité der "Agudas Jisroel" zu Frankfurt a. M. Contents: Die Vorgeschichte der "Agudas Jisroel" by A. Weyl - Die..... More
![Item 7883. RABBI MEIR OF ROTHENBURG, HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS AS SOURCES FOR THE RELIGIOUS, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF GERMANY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY [TWO VOLUMES; GIFT INSCRIBED TO RABBI ROBERT LEHMAN]](/pictures/thumb/33641.jpg?v=1661884825)
Philadelphia; Dropsie College For Hebrew And Cognate Learning, 1947. Hardcover. Original Cloth. 8vo. XXXIII, 749 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Bibliography: v. 2, p. 703-719. Both a biography of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, a collection of his responsa translated from manuscripts, and a history of Jewish..... More
![Item 860. EYNIKAYT /AYNIKAYT / AINIKAYT [NEW SERIES] LOOSE ISSUES: 1944 (NR. 5-FRAGILE PULP PAPER WITH CHIPPING) ; 1945 (NRS. 1, 2-EDGEWEAR, 3, 6, 9) , 1946 (NRS. 2, 3, 4(GROPPER COVER) , 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12) , 1947 (NRS. 1, 2).](/images/noimage.png)
Paperback. New York, Der Komitet, 1946-47. Paper Wrappers, Folio (Road Atlas size, 35 cm) , 32 pages. "Unity. " Yiddish Communist bimonthly (from May 1944-Jan 15 1945) , then monthly (through 1947) for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom..... More
Paperback. New York, Der Komitet, 1943. Paper Wrappers, Large 4to (Life Magazine size) , 28 pages. "Unity. " Short-lived (1942-43 only) Yiddish Communist monthly for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet..... More
Hardcover. 1st edition. Stiff Wrappers, 4to, 8-36 pages each issue. In Yiddish. Daily writeups from the Workmens Circle Annual convention, here bound together with the annual joke issue, "Der Bezem, " a kind of April Fools Day-like response to the convention. This is not a kind of post-convention wrap-up, but..... More
Varshe [Warsaw]: Kultur-lige, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo; Original publisher's boards, 12mo 104 pages ; 24 cm. In Yiddish. “ When Der Got fun Nekome (pr. 1907; The God of Vengeance, 1918) was performed on Yiddish stages in Russia and Poland, Max Reinhardt, who understood Yiddish, decided to produce it at the..... More
Pariz: Bikher fun Yidishn Pen-Klub, 1950. Original Wraps. 8vo. 123 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Title page verso: Wei oun wander; Douleur sans foyer, poe´sies. Sorrow Without a Home, post-holocaust poetry, with some pre-war poems, by Israel Aszendorf; published in Paris by the Yiddish Writers Club..... More
Paperback. Nyu York : Linguist Pub. Co. , 1943. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 247, 195 pages. The final 2 volumes in an annual which ran from 1939 until 1943. 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature -- Bio-bibliography. OCLC lists 11 holdings worldwide. Institutional stamp, wear & chips to..... More
Berlin; Jüdischer Verlag, 1919. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 4to. 112 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. ‘The Jewish City of Lublin’. With 60 illustrations. Monograph of Lublin’s Jewish history by Majer Balaban (1877–1942) , “historian and educator. Majer Balaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and..... More
Budapest; Central Board Of Hungarian Jews, 1988. Original illustrated Wraps. 12mo. 50 pages. 20 cm. First English edition. With 28 illustrations. A brief history of the Jews in Hungary before and after 1945. The second part of the booklet contains pictures of synagogues and of community life. The author was..... More
New York Bessarabian Federation of American Jews, Inc., 1946. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers 4to (magazine size) , 32, 128 pages. In Yiddish (128 pages) and English (32 pages). 3 Volumes were issued (1946, 1947, 1948) Includes many photos. 24 cm. SUBJECT(S) : Jews, East European -- United..... More
![Item 44532. PINKES BIALYSTOK; GRUNT-MATERYALN TSU DER GESHIKTE FUN DI YIDN IN BIALYSTOK BIZ NOKH DER ERSHTER VELT-MILKOHME PINKOS BIALYSTOK. [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]](/pictures/thumb/14335.jpg?v=1662141782)
New York, Bialystok Jewish Historical Association, 1949. HARDBACK. 1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 480 + 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1). More
![Item 54744. PINKES BIALYSTOK; GRUNT-MATERYALN TSU DER GESHIKTE FUN DI YIDN IN BIALYSTOK BIZ NOKH DER ERSHTER VELT-MILKOHME PINKOS BIALYSTOK. [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]](/pictures/thumb/41479.jpg?v=1661885223)
New York, Bialystok Jewish Historical Association, 1949. HARDBACK. 1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 480 + 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. OCLC: 10792576. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1). More
![Item 54745. PINKES BIALYSTOK; GRUNT-MATERYALN TSU DER GESHIKTE FUN DI YIDN IN BIALYSTOK BIZ NOKH DER ERSHTER VELT-MILKOHME PINKOS BIALYSTOK. [VOL 2 ONLY OF 2]](/pictures/thumb/41480.jpg?v=1662142161)
New York, Bialystok Jewish Historical Association, 1949. HARDBACK. 1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1A). More
New York: Vilner Farlag, 1962. Paperback. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 112 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Twenty One and One: About Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by the Nazis in Vilna, 1941-1942." Preface by A. Morewski and Leiser Ran. Subjects: Jewish actors -- Biography. Jews --..... More
Boston: Stratford Co., 1917. Paperback. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 86 pages, 24 cm. In English. This issue is dedicated to esteemed Yiddish writer, David Pinski. Pinski (1872-1959) is perhaps best known as a playwright. He explored topics that were previously ignored, like urban Jewish workers and sexuality. There..... More
Paris; R. Laffont, 1989. Softbound. 8vo. 221, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In French. ‘Birobidjan, a Jewish land of the USSR. ’ With 8 pages of color photographs of Birobidjan from the late 1980’s. Subjects: Jews - Russia (Federation) - Birobidzhan. Juifs - Russie - Région autonome des Juifs..... More
New York; New York University Press, Institute Of Jewish Affairs. 1994. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. Xvi, 142 pages. 22 cm. Illustrated. First U. S. Edition. Black and white photographs, as well as diagrams and charts. “The Jews of the former Soviet Union have always been the subject of intense controversy..... More
Moscow; Rosspen, 2006. Hardcover. Publishers boards. 8vo. 495 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated. First edition. 12 leaves of plates with reproductions of documents, black and white photographs, and early 20th century artwork in color and black and white. English title page, with title translated as “Russian-Jewish Culture. ” Table of content..... More
Nyu Yorkl Aroysgegebn fun Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut, 1933. Hardcover. Later boards. 16mo. 32 pages. 14 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. A collection of 243 Yiddish proverbs; compiled by the famous Yiddish folklorist Yehuda Leib Cahan (1881-1937) . Subjects: Proverbs, Yiddish. Folklore. OCLC lists 17 copies. Lightly soiled first few pages..... More
Berlin; C. A. Schwetschke & Sohn, 1918. Original Wraps. 8vo. 112 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German. ‘The Jewish Question in Romania. ’ Provides a historical narrative with specific details about various pieces of legislation. In the series: Kriegspolitische Einzelschriften, Hft. 21. Subjects: Jews - Romania. Romania; social and..... More
Vienna; Centropa, 2007. Softbound. 16mo. 120 pages. 16 cm. First edition. Guide and catalogue to the traveling exhibition on Romanian Jewish lives, through pictures and interviews; Centropa is devoted to gathering interviews of Jewish residents in Eastern Europe, and has put on many exhibitions of their collections. Fully illustrated throughout..... More