Vlina: No Publisher [Ort? Printed by Sh. Likhtmakher], 1919. Presume 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 8 pages. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Society for Promoting Craftsmanship and Agriculture among the Jews ("ORT"). “ORT” is the Russian abbreviation standing for the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural..... More

Zandvoort; E. J. Bonset, 1971. Softbound. 8vo. 112 pages. 22 cm. Second edition. Reprint, originally published: Riga, 1932. In German. ‘The Emergence of the Jewish Labor Movement in Russia. ’ Subjects: Jews - Soviet Union. Working class - Soviet Union. Joden. Arbeidersbeweging. OCLC lists 23 copies. Light shelf wear to..... More

Zshenev [Geneva]: Aroysgegeben fun Bund, 1905. 1st edition. Period half leather, 8vo, [79] pages. The exceedingly rare 1905 1st edition of this seminal Yiddish play, published by the Bund in exile in Geneva. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Family Tsvi [Hirsch]: A Tragedy in Four Acts.” This Bund-published first..... More

New York: Privately Printed, 1952-1954. Illustrated by 17 Photos,numerous Portraits. pages; 1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, large 8vo 566 pages. In Yiddish. Yizkor book to murdered teachers in Poland. Very Good Condition. (yiz-20-13) xx. More

Chicago: M. Tseshinski, 1939. First edition. Original wrappers featuring a beautiful illustration of Judah Maccabi. 8vo. 24 pages; text is partially vocalized. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Judah The Maccabi: A Historical Operetta in Two Acts. ” SUBJECTS: Judas, Maccabeus, -161 B. C. -- Drama. OCLC lists 8..... More

Montreal, Canada; Eagle Pub. Co., 1940. Publishers Cloth. 4to. 209 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Inscribed in Yiddish by author on front end paper. Written by Israel Rabinovitch (1894-1964) , “an accomplished musician and writer, was chief editor of the Montreal Yiddish daily newspaper, the Keneder Adler, from..... More

Berlin; Philo Verlag, 1924. Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 24 cm. Third edition. In German. 'On the Rights of Citizenship of German Jews. ' A general history of German state law concerning German-Jewish subjects. Written by Paul Rieger (1870–1939) , a “German rabbi, scholar, and historian. Rieger, who was born..... More

Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; Leiden: Brill, 1983. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 433 pages. 25 cm. First English edition. With over 100 fascimile reproductions, and detailed catalogue of 154 inscriptions on ritual objects, tombstones, and other materials. Added title page: Corpus inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum, a temporibus saeculi III. , quae exstant, usque ad..... More

St. Luis [St. Louis, Mo]: Aroysgegebn fun dem Umparteyishn Idishn Arbeter Klub, 1928. 1st edition. Original blue cloth with gilt title in modernist typeface, 8vo, 111 pags, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “First Bloom.” Poems. Chaim Schwartz (1903 - 1994) “was a poet, born in Berezin (Byerazino), Byelorussia..... More

New York: "A Grupe Fraynd" 1927. 8vo; 1st edition. Cloth, Small octavo, 334 pages. In Yiddish. Section headings include "The Jews in Amsterdam", The Theological Storm", and "Leibnitz". Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334).SUBJECT(S): Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. "Jacob Shatzky (also: Yaakov, or Yankev Shatski; in Polish: Szacki) (1893–1956) was a...... More

New York; Cambridge University Press, 2004. Publishers cloth. 8vo. Ix, 300 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated. First edition. Signed by author. "Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture gives voice to the activists empowered by the state to create a Soviet Jewish national culture. These activists were striving for a...... More

New York; Farlag Matones, 1922-1923. Original Wraps for each issue, bound by publisher into illustrated boards. 4to. [approx. 18 pages per issue]. 29 cm. Begins with the special "Yubelai Numer," April/May 1922, and running a full calendar year, though Volume/Issue numbering follows a different system! Run of Kinder Zhurnal, Wrappers..... More

New York; Farlag Matones, 1921-1922. Original Wraps for each issue, all bound together at spine but lacking boards. 4to. [approx. 18 pages per issue]. 29 cm. The publisher generally bound Vol II, Nr. 11/12 (Jan/Feb 1923) with Vol III as a 1923 volume, so is not present here. Run of..... More