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Varsha [Warsaw]: [Der Moment], 1921. First edition. Original illustrated boards, 8vo, 282 pages. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Almanac for the 10 Year Jubilee of ‘Moment’”. Book of essays published in honor of the 10 year anniversary of Polish Yiddish daily newspaper “Der Moment”. The paper was published..... More
![Item 281497. DER ARBAYTER FRAYND: ANARKHISTISH-KOMUNISTISHER ORGAN. VOL 28, NOS. 1-52, 1911. THE WORKERS FRIEND [COMPLETE FOR 1911] (XT)](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43418.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773432907)
London: Workers Friend Group, 1911. First edition. Bound in later boards, Folio, various pagination, includes illustrations. 38 cm. In Yiddish. All 52 issues of weekly, London-based, anarchist publication Der Arbayter Fraynd from the year 1911 bound together in cloth. “[Arbayter Fraynd’s] founders included social democrats (Marxists), socialists, and anarchists, but..... More
![Item 281445. FORVERTS. FORWARD. 117 OF 195 ORIGINAL COMPLETE WARTIME ISSUES FROM JANUARY 16 - JULY 29, 1945. VOLS. XLVIII-XLIX, WHOLE NUMBERS 17,195-17,389. [BROKEN RUN]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43406.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770803652)
New York, N.Y. and Philadelphia: Jewish Socialist Press Federation, 1945. All 1st Edition. Original Newsprint, Unbound as issued, Full Newspaper Size (42 x 58 cm). Weekdays: 8 pages, Fridays 8-10 pages, Saturdays 10 pages, Sundays 14-16 pages (marked as "2 sections"), totaling 1136 pages among 117 Complete Issues. In Yiddish..... More
![Item 280321. GEVEHLTE SHRIFTEN VOL. 1-3 [WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR] [COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745407362)
Nyu York [New York]: Forverts, 1912. First edition. Original boards, 8vo, 266, 266, 268 pages. 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Collected Writings.” Full set of Morris Rosenfeld’s collected works. Volume 1 contains poetry, Volume 2 and 3 contain stories. Warmly inscribed by Rosenfeld in 1913 to Yiddish actor..... More
![Item 280364. LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BALTIMORE ASYLUM FOR ISRAELITES. BETH MACHASE UMISHTOR, AND THE ADRESSES [SIC] UPON THE OCCASION, BALTIMORE, JUNE 25TH, 1866 (12TH TAMMUZ 5626).](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43137.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745570050)
Baltimore: W. Winkler & J.L. Leucht, Jr., 1867. 1st edition. Later leather binding, 12mo, 30 pages. In English and German. Singerman Nr. 1986. Early-post-Civil War Jewish Baltimore imprint. Included are “Introductory Remarks by the Vice President Dr. Joshua J. Cohen” [pages 5-7], followed by a prayer [in English] by “The..... More
New York: Gezelshaft far geshikhte fun Byalistok, 1951. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8vo, 64 pages including portraits. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “National and political movements among Jews in Bialystok.” Pamphlet with essays about the history of Jews in Bialystok published by the Society for History of..... More
![Item 279041. POLISH JEWS: A PICTORIAL RECORD [BOLDLY SIGNED BY VISHNIAC]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43029.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736374319)
New York, Schocken, 1947. First Edition. Original Cloth with Dust Jacket, Small folio, 17, 33 pages. BOLDLY SIGNED BY VISHNIAC ON THE HALF TITLE. With an introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel. A depiction of vibrant Jewish life in the years immediately prior to the Holocaust in such Polish centers..... More
Moskve [Moscow] : Emes, 1934. 1st edition. Original printed publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 354 pages. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Political Economy: Short Course for Marxist-Leninist Circles and for Self-Education.” SUBJECT(S): Economics E´conomie politique. OCLC: 19314574. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Front hinge starting, endpapers and contents page loose..... More
New York: The Forward Association, 1997. 1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo 50 pages, includes illustrations and portraits. 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references. “The first issue of Forverts appeared on April 22, 1897, in New York City. The paper was founded by a group of about 50 Yiddish-speaking socialists..... More
![Item 281537. DI TSAYT. MARCH 1898 NO. 5 [TYPO, MISPRINTED AS '1889']; APRIL 1898 NO. 6; JULY 1898 NO.8 [THREE ISSUES]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43426.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776800343)
[New York: N.M. Shaikewitz], 1897-1898. First edition, staple binding, 4to, 29-31 pages each issue, 30 cm. In Yiddish. Three issues of Di Tsayt, a monthly Yiddish language publication published in New York. The journal ran from 1897-1898. Singerman S582; Freidus, p. 282, Weissberger 56. “Menahem Mendel Dolitzky was a Hebrew..... More
Nyu York [New York]: Farlag Signal, 1934. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 190 pages including illustrations. 20 cm In Yiddish. The title translates as “Underground” or “Success.” Nazi-era Poetry and fiction by Yosl Cutler with illustrations by the author. “A mish-mosh of wildly creative stories and illustrations by Yosl Cutler..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1965. First edition. Original boards with printed dust jacket, 8vo, 166 pages. 22 cm. In English. “Starting Out in the Thirties is the 1965 memoir by New York intellectual, writer and literary critic, Alfred Kazin. It covers the years between 1934 and 1940 as Kazin makes his..... More
No Place [Malden, MA]: Maldener Relief Komite, 1919? No Date [1919?]. 1st Edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, [14] pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Verses of a Volunteer.” No city or date listed, but clearly published during or immediately after WW I, with the Leksikon suggesting Malden..... More
Nyu York [New York]: Aroysgegebn fun Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut [YIVO], 1933. 1st edition. Original limp cloth, 16mo (pocket-sized). 32 pages. 14 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "The Jew: About Himself and About Others: In his Proverbs and Idioms." A collection of 243 Yiddish proverbs; compiled by the famous Yiddish..... More
London: "Arbayter fraynd" 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards, 8vo, xiii, 426 pages, 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.” Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.” Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references. “During his long exile, Kropotkin wrote a...... More
New York; Posy-Shoulson Press, 1937. 1st edition. Original Wraps. 4to. [4], 171, [2], 23 pages. 28 cm. In Yiddish with English section and title page: Ten years Artef; published for the tenth anniversary of the Artef, March, 1937. Extensively illustrated publication for the tenth year anniversary of the radical Yiddish..... More
Nyu York (New York): Ferlag fun Meyer Hinski [Chinsky], 1899. 1st edition. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers (English side only), 8vo, 61 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Love: A Philosophical Reflection on the Real Feeling of Love and Nature's Reciprocity.” Singerman Supplement 0765. Vol I, No..... More
New York: Farlag "Vecker" 1931. First edition. Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 168 pages. 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “10 Years of Socialist Labor.” Book of essays about the first ten years of the existence of the Jewish Socialist Verband. “The Jewish Socialist Verband (JSV) was a secular Jewish..... More
London: "Arbayter fraynd" 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards, 8vo, xiii, 426 pages, 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.” Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.” Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references. “During his long exile, Kropotkin wrote a...... More
![Item 267001. KNAAN UN MITSROYIM: ROMAN [KNEN]. KANAANA UN EGIPTE. (xt)](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42782.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713560110)
Rige [Riga]: Yungbukh, 1930. 1st edition. Period boards with original covers bound in. 8vo. 157 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish with Latvian “front” cover and title page at rear. Title translates as “Canaan and Egypt: A Novel.” Wonderfully illustrated cover (bound in) featuring cartoonish drawings of Canaanites and Egyptians. Two..... More
New-York: Sh. Drukerman, 1912. First edition. 8vo, bound into stiff pamphlet protector, 43 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The People's Speaker: A Collection of Speeches on Various Occasions, Religious and Weekly” Book of sermons for major Jewish holidays and weekly portions. Owned by Rabbi I. David Essrig..... More
![Item 281498. KINDER ZSHURNAL, 1956-1957. 12 ISSUES: JANUARY 1956 NO. 1; FEBRUARY 1956 NO. 2; MARCH 1956 NO.3; APRIL 1956 NO.4; OCTOBER 1956 NO.5; DECEMBER 1956 NO.6; JANUARY 1957 NO.1; FEBRUARY 1957 NO.2; MARCH 1957 NO.3; APRIL 1957 NO.4 [COMPLETE FOR 1956 AND 1957]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43419.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774039877)
New York: Shalom-Alekhem folks shuln, 1956-1957. ; First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, bound by year into later paper outer wrappers for each yearly volume, 4to, each issue contains 18 pages, includes illustrations. 26 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Children’s Journal.” All published copies of the famous Yiddish children’s..... More
![Item 254130. DOREM AFRIKE [AFRIKA]: NRS 184-186 (VOL 21, NR 6, NOV/DEC 1968-VOL 22, NR 2 MAR/APRIL 1969); [3 ISSUES TOTAL]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42134.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675100025)
Yohanesburg [Johannesburg, South Africa]]: Dorem Afrikaner Yidisher Kultur Federatsye, 1968-1990. 1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. Approximately 32 pages each, 23 cm. In Yiddish withs some English advertisements. Title translates to “South Africa.” South Africa's most well-known Yiddish journal, published in Johannesburg from 1948-1991. Interesting period covered here, the tumult of..... More
![Item 280590. AVRAHAM GOLDFADEN UN ZIGMUNT MOGULESKO [XT]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43183.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750343775)
Buenos Ayres: Elisheva, 1936. First edition. Original dramatic color illustrated paper wrappers. 8vo, 188 pages, 18 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Abraham Goldfaden and Sigmund Mogulesko.” Biography of Yiddish actors and writers Abraham Goldfadn and Sigmund Mogulesko by Zalmen Zylbercweig, famed Yiddish actor and researcher of Yiddish theater. Beautifully..... More
Moskve: Melukhe-farlag "Der Emes" 1946. 1st edition. Original Printed Boards, Small 8vo, 167 pages. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "From the Minsk Ghetto." Title also in Russian: Minskoe getto. In 1941, a group of Jews (among them the Polish Jew Hersh Smolar; 1905–1993) [the author] organized a resistance movement in..... More