California Jewry - Oral Histories

     A call came from the Bancroft and I was offered a large group of bound versions of the Oral Histories from the Oral History Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The impulse to record these oral histories goes back to the work that William Bancroft supervised in order to prepare his massive history of California. The Bancroft Library and archives grew out of the donation of this work to the University of California, Berkeley in 1905. The Regional Oral History project was established in 1954. It restarted Bancroft's work but without the impulse to create a single unified history as the end results. These oral histories were created in order to serve the open-ended project of the writing of the history of California in the broadest sense and in an evolutionary way into the future. 
      A few interviews of significant Jewish figures were conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. Seymour Fromer was probably responsible for the eventual involvement and co-production of these interviews which became more numerous in the 1970 and continue to this day. This became the series, Jewish Community Leaders. In the 1980s a second more focused series entitled, Jewish Community Federation began.
      If journalism is the first draft of history, oral history is a close second draft. It is an interesting source because one gets the sense of the the thought processes and priorities of the interviewees. Not all of the information that they provide is reliable or true and the variations between accounts are valuable.
      Many, but not all, of these accounts are also available online in a varying selection of formats. However, printed versions of texts are much easier and more pleasant than reading things on the a screen. Many of the older volumes contain original documents and photos that reproduce less well online. Hollander Books offer a large but incomplete selection of the oral histories from the two Jewish series as well as a small selection of additional oral histories not part of the Jewish series.
     Our normal practice is to offer illustrations of the boards or title pages of the books offered. However, these volumes are all bound in a relatively uniformed manor and with only minor variations in the typography of the title-pages.


Altman, Ludwig. Ludwig Altman. A Well-Tempered Musician's Unfinished Journey Through Life. California Jewish Community Oral History Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1990. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, ix, 190 pp., b/w photos, documentary appendices, tipped in color photo of Altman, copies of documents, index. Obituaries in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Dr. Robert Kirschner. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser and Caroline Crawford in 1988. (84981)     $25.00

Arnstein, Flora J. Ongoing: Poetry, Teaching, Family in San Francisco, 1885-1985. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1985. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, vi, 254 pp., b/w photos, documents, index. With copies of obituaries in an envelope of pasted down to the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Shirley Kaufman. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne B. Riess 1984-1985. (85046)     $25.00

Arnstein, Lawrence. Lawrence Arnstein: Community Service in California, Public Health and Social Welfare. Including an Interview with Mrs. Flora Jacobi Arnstein of the Presideo Open School of San Francisco, and Progressive Education. Berkeley, University of California, General Library/ Berkeley, Regional Cultural History Project, 1964. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in color photo of Lawrence and Flora Arnstein as a frontispiece, tipped in four page pamphlet, "Honorary Life Membership: American Social Hygiene Association Presented to Lawrence Arnstein 1956," xiii, 292 pp (single-sided), tipped in cover and single page from Search Magazine, August 1952 with Arnstein on the cover, pamphlet "Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 121, Adopted in May 15, 1957 - Relative to congratulating and commending Lawrence Arnstein in the field of public health," index. Newspaper clippings of two obituaries for Arnstein who died in 1979 at 98. Hardbound. Very Good. An interview conducted by Edna Tartaul Daniel. Arnstein was known as the most vocal advocate for Public Health in the US and was referred to as "Mr. Public Health. Flora Arnstein, his wife, was an educator and a poet. They were members of San Francisco's old German-Jewish circle. Arnstein's recollections of education at University of California; work in his father's woolen business; service on the San Francisco Board of Health and with San Francisco Social Hygiene Association; his long career in community service; sponsorship of legislation for establishment of School of Public Health at University of California. (84930)      $35.00

Braun, Jerome I. Jerome I. Braun. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1979-1980. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 130 pp., b/w photos,  index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. (84995)      $25.00

Feldman, Jesse. Jesse Feldman. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1973-1974. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, xiii, 77 pp., b/w photos,  index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie and Murray J. Waldman. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1990. (84979)      $25.00

Fleishhacker, Mortimer and Janet Choynski. Mortimer Fleischhacker, Janet Choynski Fleischhacker: Family, Business, and the San Francisco Community. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photos (original photos), vi, xii, 412 pp., several pages of original b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Allan B. Jacobs. Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun. Copy No. 5. (84978)     $25.00

Fromm, Alfred. Alfred Fromm: Wines, Music, and Lifelong Education, with Alfred Fromm: Marketing California Wine and Brandy. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988, 1984. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, 207, viii, 57 pp., documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Elaine Dorfman and Caroline Crawford in 1986 and 1987. And Including Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1984. With an Introduction by Leon D. Adams. (84996)     $25.00

Gerstley, James Mack. James Mack Gerstley. Executive, U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation: Trustee, Pomona College; Civic Leader, San Francisco Asian Art Museum. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, xiv, 240 pp., documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Elizabeth Lilienthal Gerstley and Norman J. Travis. Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Eleanot Swent in 1990. (84982)     $25.00

Goldman, Richard N. Richard N. Goldman. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1981-1982. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1993. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, xvii, 146 pp., b/w photos, index, images of press clippings. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Brian Lurie, Susan Goldman Gelman, John D. Goldman and Douglas E. Goldman, M.D. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1992. (85045)     $25.00

Goldman, Rhoda H. and Richard N. Experience and Adventure in the Goldman Charitable Funds. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1994. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xvi, xviii, 237 pp., b/w photos, tipped-in color photo, reproductions of newspaper clippings. Copy no. 16. Hardbound. Very Good. Interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris in 1990. With Introductions by Ira Michael Heyman and Duane Silverstein. History of of Bay Area Philanthropy Series. The Goldman were heirs to the Levi-Strauss fortune. They were significant philanthropists and have passed that heritage on to the next generations. (84934)      $25.00

Green, Frances D. Frances D. Greene. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1975-1976. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 130 pp., b/w photos,  index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Rabbi Brian Lurie. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. (84985)     $25.00

Haas, Elise Stern. Elise Stern Haas: The Appreciation of Quality. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1979. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, b/w frontispiece photo, iv, x, 210 pp., b/w phpts, documents, index, photocopy of Elise Hass' obituary laid-in. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Meyer Friedman, M.D. and Henry T. Hopkins. An interview conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1972. With "A Personal Note to My Children," by Elise Haas. (84984)     $25.00

Haas, Peter. Peter Haas: A Life. In His Own Words, With Commentary by Friends and Associates. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2003. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, 124 single-sided pp., color photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Edited by Linda E. Norton, Senior Editor. Based on interviews conducted by Richard Candida Smith, Leah McGarrigle and Eleanor Glaser in 2000-2002. (84937)     $18.00

Haas, Walter A., Sr.; Koshland, Daniel E., Sr.; Haas, Walter, Jr. and Haas, Peter E. Levi Strauss & Co.: Tailors to the World. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1976. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, xiii, frontispiece photo, iv, ii, xv, 83 pp.,iii, frontispiece photo, i, 57 pp., frontispiece photo,, iii, i, 61 pp., frontispiece photo, ii, i, 94, pp.,b/w photos, 46 reproductions of newspaper articles and additional documents, indexes, with two newspaper clippings of articles about Peter Haas in a tipped-in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie, Louis Weintraub, and Phyllis Cook. An Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990 and 1991. Copy. No. 6. Robert Sinton was the son or Edgar Sinton. (84941)     $20.00

Haas, Walter A., Sr. Walter A. Haas, Sr.: Civic, Philanthropic and Business Leadership. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, vi, 163 single-sided pp., tipped-in b/w original photo of Elise and Walter Haas, Sr., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, tipped in pamphlet for the Strawberry Canyon Recreational Area, genealogical chart, index. With nine original newspaper clippings and obituaries in a tipped in envelope on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Clark Kerr. An Interview conducted by Harriet Nathan. Copy No. 5. (84955)     $25.00

Hart, Ruth Arnstein. Concern for the Individual: The Community YWCA and Other Berkeley Organizations. Volunteer Leadership Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, iv, viii, 319 pp., b/w photos, documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Ruth Plainfield, and Memorials by Alvin I Fine, Ira Michael Heyman, Charles Muscatine. An Interview Conducted by Gabrielle Morris. (84994)      $25.00

Hilborn, Walter S. Walter S. Hilborn. Reflections on Legal Practice and Jewish Community Leadership: New York and Los Angeles, 1907-1973. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1974. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in copy of an obituary on the front pastedown endpaper, tipped in b/w frontispiece photo, x, xix pp., genealogical table, 227 pp., tipped in original b/w photos, index.  Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introductions by Alfred Gottschalk and Lester Wm. Roth. An Interview Conducted by Malca Chall. Copy No. 4. (85048)     $25.00

Hirsch, Marcel. Marcel Hirsch: The Responsibilities and Rewards of Involvement. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1981. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, x, 180 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Geoffrey Fisher, Syliva L. Stone, Louis Weintraub. An Interview Conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser and Louis Weintraub in 1979, 1980. (84993)      $25.00


Hughes, Sally Smith, interviews conducted by. Marian E. Koshland (1921-1997): Retrospectives on a Life in Academic Science, Family and Community Activities. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2003. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, x, iv, 229 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, tape guide, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.. Interviews conducted by Elaine Hughes in 1999 and 2000. Interviewees are James P. Allison, Anne H. Good, Catherine P. Koshland, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Douglas E. Koshland, James M. Koshland, Hogh O. McDevitt and Gail Koshland Wachtel. (84983)     $25.00

Koshland, Lucile Heming. Lucile Heming Koshland. Citizen Participation in Government. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1971. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in frontispiece photo (original photo), iv, iv, 80 pp., b/w photos, three documentary appendices, index. Obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interview Conducted by Harriet Nathan. (84974)     $25.00

Koshland, Robert J. Robert J. Koshland. Volunteer Community Service in Health and Welfare California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1983. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, vi, xii, 313 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, Koshland Genealogy. Robert J. Koshland Family Information, "Guide for Planning a District Hospital," "Meeting the Need For Hospital Beds," index. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Maurice B. Hexter and Martin A. Paley. Interviews conducted by Elaine Dorfman in 1980, 1981.. (84973)      $25.00

Kuhn, Marshall H.  Marshall H. Kuhn. Catalyst and Teacher; San Francisco Jewish and Community Leader, 1934-1978. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xxii, 365 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With Introductions by Alyson Kuhn, Richard M. Leonard, Harold L. Levy. An Interview Conducted by Elaine Dorfman in 1977 and 1978. San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin, 1880-1940: A Community Oral History Project. California Jewish Heritage Series. Kuhn was very active in Jewish Welfare Federation in San Francisco as well as Temple Emanu-El in the period between the 1920s and the 1970s. He was employed as an educator and principal at both Emanu-El and Peninsula Temple Beth El. (84931)     $18.00

Levison, Alice Gerstle. Alice Gerstle Levison: Family Reminiscences. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1967. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in original photo, iv, 142 pp., tipped-in original b/w photos by Ruth Teiser, partial index. Tipped-in photo copy of Gerstle's obituary on the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser. (84992)      $25.00

Lowdermilk, Walter Clay. Walter Clay Lowdermilk. Soil, Forest, and Water Conservation and Reclamation in China, Israel, Africa, and the United States. In Two Volumes. Berkeley, University of California, Bancroft Library/ Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, 1969. Quartos, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in b/w frontispiece original photo, xxxix, 265, 696-704 single-sided pp., one page of original b/w photos, index + tipped-in b/w frontispiece original photo, xxii-xxxix, 266-705 pp., tipped-in original b/w photo, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Foreword by Senator Carl Hayden. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. (84956)      $50.00

Lowenberg, William J. William J. Lowenberg. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1983-84. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, viii, 164 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Roselyne C. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1993. (84975)     $25.00

Magnin, Edgar F. Edgar F. Magnin: Leader and Personality. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo (original photo tipped in), xiii, 320 pp., original b/w photos tipped-in, reproductions of a few newspaper clippings, program for a dinner in honor of Magnin at the Wilshire Avenue Synagogue bound in, abbreviated biography of Rabbi Magnin, a couple of reprints of LA Times articles bound in, reproductions of Magnin's correspondence related to General George S. Brown, index. Hardbound. Very Good. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. With an introduction by Rabbi Samson H. Levey. Copy No. 5. The product of a San Francisco childhood and an education at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Magnin assumed pulpits in Stockton and in Los Angeles at Temple B'nai B'rith before assuming the primary tasks of his life, the pulpit at Temple Wilshire Boulevard. He was a central figure in Jewish Los Angeles for over forty years. (84935)     $40.00

Myers, Laurence E. Laurence E. Myers. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1986-1988. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1993. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, x, 155 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents, index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Jerome I. Braun. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1992. (84976)     $25.00

Rinder, Rose. Rose Rinder. Music, Prayer and Religious Leadership. Temple Emanu-El, 1913-1969. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1971. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped-in original frontispiece photo, vi, vi, 185 pp., tipped in original b/w photos, documents, index. With copies of obituaries in an envelope of pasted down to the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Rabbi Louis I. Newman. An Interview Conducted by Malca Chall. (85047)     $25.00

Salz, Helen A. Helen A. Salz: Sketches of an Improbably Ninety Years. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in frontispiece original photo, vi, xvi, 272 pp., a half dozen pages of original b/w photos, reproductions of articles, index. With a reproduction of the SF Chronicle obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With an Introduction by Ernest Besig. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne Reiss. Copy. No. 5. (84965)     $20.00

Schnier, Jacques. Jacques Schneir: A Sculptor's Odyssey. California Jewish Community Interview Series of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum. Berkeley, Regional Oral History Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, tipped in color frontispiece original photo, vi, xi, 316 pp., b/w photos, resume, list of publications, Exhibit catalog bound-in, reproductions of newspaper articles, index. With a reproduction of the SF Chrinicle obituary in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. With an additional color catalog and some newspaper clippings of obituaries in an envelope pasted onto one of the later pages. Hardbound. Very Good. Preface by Seymour Fromer. With Introductions by Dorothy Lilienthal Schnier and Gregg L. McKee. An Interview Conducted by Suzanne Reiss in 1986. (84966)      $25.00

Shirpser, Clara. Clara Shirpser. One Woman's Role in Democratic Party Politics: National, California, and Local, 1950-1973. In Two Volumes. Volume One Only. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xiii, x, 338 pp., b/w photos, tape guide, documents,  index. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Alan Cranston. An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. (85013)     $25.00

Sinton, Edgar. Edgar Sinton: Jewish and Community Service in San Francisco: A Family Tradition. California Jewish History Series. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1978. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo [original photo], viii, xiii, 224 pp., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, index. With two pages of reproductions of obituaries in a tipped-in envelope on the free front endpaper.  Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Ernest H. Winter. An Interview conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser. Copy. No. 6. (84939)     $20.00

Sinton, Robert E. Robert E. Sinton: President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1967-1968. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xv, 124 pp., b/w photos, reproductions of newspaper articles, index, tipped-in philanthropy related flyer . Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Brian Lurie, Louis Weintraub, and Phyllis Cook. An Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1990 and 1991. Copy. No. 6. Robert Sinton was the son or Edgar Sinton. (84940)     $20.00

Steinhart, John H. John H. Steinhart. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1969-1970. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1992. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, vi, xiii, 107 pp., b/w photos, articles and documents. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Louis Weintraub and Melvin M. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1990 and 1991. (84972)     $25.00

Stern, Gerd. From Beat Scene to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978. Berkeley, California, The Regents of the University of California, 2001. Quarto, blue cloth with white lettering, x, 399 pp., b/w photos, tape guide, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Introduction by Ivan Majdrakoff. Interviews Conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996. (84927)     $25.00

Stone, Sylvia L. Sylvia L. Stone. Lifelong Volunteer in San Francisco. California Jewish Community Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1983. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xix, 135 pp., b/w photos, family tree, meditations, scripts, index., newspaper clippings of obituaries in an envelope tipped onto the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Rabbi Joseph Asher, Miggs Post, and Bernice Scharlach. An  interview conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1982. Copy No. 5. (84971)     $25.00

Swig, Melvin M. Melvin M. Swig. President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1971-1972. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xiii, 229 pp., b/w photos, index, images of press clippings. Hardbound. Very Good. With introductions by Donald H. Seller and Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser. "Swig was a real estate developer and philanthropist, in San Francisco and New York. He was heir to the Fairmont Hotel chain, and former chairman of the Swig, Weiler & Dinner Development Company, of San Francisco and Manhattan, a family-owned real estate company with holdings including the Fairmont Hotel." Wikipedia. Swig was a controversial leader of the pro-development forces in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. (84932)     $18.00

Treguboff, Sanford M. Sanford M. Tregubooff: Adminstrtion of Jewish Philanthropy in San Francisco. California Jewish Community Oral History Series. Berkeley, Bancroft Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, v, xvii, 243 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Including interview with Frances D. Green, Edward Nathan, Florette W. Pomeroy, Elizabeth K. Treguboff, Ernest H. Weiner, and Louis Weintraub. With introduction y Robert E. Sinton and Henry L. Zucker. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser 1984 and 1986. Eulogies by John R. May, Robert E. Sinton and Rabbi Robert Kirschner. (84970)     $25.00

Weintraub, Louis E. Administration of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Fund [Federation], 1970-1975. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1996. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, viii, xiii, 149 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Introductions by Frances D. Green and Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1994. Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Louis Weintraub discusses his family background in New York and El Paso, education at the University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Army service, being Western Regional Consultant of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the merger of Federation of Jewish Charities and Jewish Welfare Fund, serving as Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the the Jewish Welfare Fund (now the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Marin, and Sonoma Counties) and related activities. (84938)     $20.00

Zellerbach, William Joseph and Nathan, Edward. Zellerbach Family Fund Innovations in Support of Human Services and the Arts. Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1991. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xi, 269 pp., index, fold-out chart of The Zellerbach Family Fund - Organizational Structure which includes the amounts supplied to the various grantees. Hardbound. Very Good. With an introduction by Robert E. Sinton. Interviews conducted by Gabrielle Morris. With additional comments by  Beverly Abbott and Janice Mirikitani. History of of Bay Area Philanthropy Series. (84933)     $25.00



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Nazi Eugenics - Genocide and Lebensborn

                  In the hand of evils dealt to our American adventure the cards face up are slavery and the genocide of the native population. But in our down cards we hold the most of the origins and much of the development of the Eugenics movement. When Adolf Hitler was still a child the many of the most prominent American philanthropists supported the Eugenics movement. Edwin Black has written persuasively about the tight association between American Eugenics and Nazi Eugenics. Eugenics is the dominant idea that explains the full constellation of Nazi "medicine." He records the inspiration of Nazi Genocide in American Eugenicist's efforts: "Eighteen solutions were explored in a Carnegie-supported 1911 "Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder's Association to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means for Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the Human Population." Point No. 8 was euthanasia.
The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in the United States was a "lethal chamber" or public, locally operated gas chambers. In 1918, Popenoe, the Army venereal disease specialist during World War I, co-wrote the widely used textbook, "Applied Eugenics," which argued, "From an historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution . . . Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." "Applied Eugenics" also devoted a chapter to "Lethal Selection," which operated "through the destruction of the individual by some adverse feature of the environment, such as excessive cold, or bacteria, or by bodily deficiency."
                    Below are various works in German describing Nazi Euthanasia against the disabled and other non-Jewish undesirables. There are also others that describe the Lebensborn program which was meant to produce the new and improved Master Race.
                    Black wrote the article quoted below to praise the 2003 passage of the first bill in the US that prohibited discrimination on the basis of Genetic information. Deceptive and forced sterilizations were performed in Los Angeles among the Latino community in between the 1950s and 1970s and was performed in California women's prisons as recently as 2010. I won't even comment on recent events. There is a reason to be interested in the collection of books listed below that I hope I have made clear enough.
                   All of these titles are currently available on the Hollander Books website.

Aly, Götz, edited by. Aktion 14: 1939-1945. Die <> -Zentral in der Tiergartenstraße 4. Berlin, Edition Hentrich, 1989. 2. erweiterte Auflage. ISBN: 3-926175-66-4. Octavo, paper covers, 214 pp., b/w photos, chronology, contributors. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Stätten der Gschichte Berlins, Band 26. (84325)     $50.00

Aly, Götz; Ebbinghaus, Angelika; Hamann, Matthias; Pfäfflin, Friedemann and Preissler, Gerd, edited by. Aussonderung un Tod: Die klinische Hinrichtung der Unbrauchbaren. Berlin, Rotbuch Verlag, 1985. ISBN: 3-88022-950-3. Octavo, paper covers, frontispiece photo, 190 pp., b/w photos, notes, index. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Beiträge zur Nationalsozialistischen Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik: 1. (84277)     $18.00

Aly, Götz. Masuhr, Karl Friedrich; Lehmann, Maria; Roth, Karl Heinz and Schultz, Ulrich. Reform and Gewissen: <> im Dienst des Fortschritts. Berlin, Rotbuch Verlag, 1985. ISBN: 3-88022-951-1. Octavo, paper covers, 200 pp., b/w photos, notes, index. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Beiträge zur Nationalsozialistischen Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik: 2. (84440)     $9.95

Bock, Gisela. Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus: Studien zur Rassenpolitik und Frauenpolitik. Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986. ISBN: 3-531-11759-9. Octavo, paper covers, 494 pp., tables, bibliography, index. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Schriften des Zentralinstituts für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung der Freien Universität Berlin, ehemals Schriften des Instituts für politische Wissenschaft, Band 48. (84507)     $95.00

Dahl, Matthias. Endstation Spiegelgrund: Die Tötung behinderter Kinder während des Nationalsozialismus am Beispiel einer Kinderfachabteilung in Wien 1940 bis 1945. Wien, Erasmus, 1998. ISBN: 3-9500624-3-2. Royal octavo, paper covers, 195 pp., tables, documents, graphs, bibliography, notes. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (84584)     $150.00

Drechsel, Klaus-Peter. Beurteilt Vermessen Ermordet: Die Praxis der Euthanasie bis zum Ende des deutschen Faschismus. Duisberg, Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung, 1993. ISBN: 3-927-388-37-8. Duodecimo, paper covers, 174 pp., bibliography. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (84493)     $7.95

Friedrich, Hannes and Matzow, Wolfgang, edited by. Dienstbare Medizin: Ärzte betrachten ihr Fach im Nationalsozialismus. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992. ISBN: 3-525-01415-5. Duodecimo, paper covers, 142 pp., bibliography. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (84180)     $7.50

Frel, Norbert, edited by. Medizin ud Gesundheitspolitik in der NS-Zeit. Münich, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1991. ISBN: 3-486-64534-X. Royal octavo, paper covers, 331 pp., bibliography, index. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (84210)     $27.50

Hermeler, Ludwig. Die Euthanasie und die späte Unschuld der Psychiater: Massenmord, Bedburg-Hau und das Geheimnis rheinischer Widerstandslegenden. Essen, Klartext-Verlag, 2002. ISBN: 3-89861-088-8. Octavo, printed paper covered boards, 298 pp., b/w photos, bibliography, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Rheinprovinz Dokumente und Darstellungen zur Geschichte der rheinische Provinzialverwaltung und des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland. Herausgegeben vom Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Rheinisches Archiv- und Museumsamt - Archiv des LVR - Redaktion Wolfgang Schaffer Band 14. (84291)     $95.00

Horsinga-Renno, Mirielle. Der Arzt von Hartheim: Wie ich die Wahrheit über die Nazi-Vergangenheit meines Onkels herausfand. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-499-62307-3. Small octavo, paper covers with flaps, 192 pp., b/w photos, chronology, bibliography, ads. Softbound. Very Good. Translated into German from the French by Martin Bauer. (84146)      $6.95

Kuratorium Gedankstätte Sonnenstein e. V. und Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. Nationalsozialistische Euthenasie-Verbrechen in Sachsen. Beiträge zu ihrer Aufarbeitung. Dresden, Pirna, 1996. 2., stark veränderte Auflage. Octavo, paper covers, 167 pp., b/w photos, drawings and documents, plans, chronology. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (84332)     $95.00

Lettow, Fritz. Arzt in den Höllen: Erinnerungen an vier Konzentrationslager. München, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3-453-19091-2. Duodecimo, paper covers, 272 pp., b/w photos. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Mit einem Nachwort von Gerhard Leo. Mit Zeichnungen von Henri Gayot aus dem Konzentrationslage, Natzweiler. (84234)     $22.50

Ley, Michael. ,,Zum Schutze des deutschen Blutes..." ''Rassenschandegesetze" im Nationalsozialismus. Bodenheim b. Mainz, Philo Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1997. ISBN: 3-8257-0056-9. Duodecimo, paper covers, 197 pp., bibliography. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (84365)     $6.95

Lilienthal, Georg. Der "Lebensborn e.V." Ein Instrument nationalsozialistischer Rassenpolitik. Stuttgart - New York, Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985. ISBN: 3-437-10939-1. Octavo, printed cloth covered boards, iv, 264 pp., tables, bibliography, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Forschung zur Neueren Medizin- und Biologiegeschichte 1. Herausgegeben von Gunter Mann und Werner F. Kümmel. Akademie die Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. (84441)     $18.00

Loewy, Hanno and Winter, Bettina, edited by. NS->>Euthanasie<< vor Gericht: Fritz Bauer und die Grenzen juristischer Bewältigung. Frankfurt/ New York, Campus Verlag, 1996. ISBN: 3-593-35442-X. Octavo, glossy paper covers, 199  pp., b/w photos, documents. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Foreword by Rupert von Plottnitz. Articles are "Justiz und Staatsverbrechen Über den juristischen Umgang mit der NS->>Euthanasie<<," Susanne Benzler and Joachim Perels, "NS->>Euthanasie<< <-prozesse an="" behinderte="" behinderten="" bundesrepublik="" deckten="" den="" der="" deutschland="" die="" dre="" dritten="" echtsschutz="" en="" f="" hrenden="" im="" in="" justiz="" k="" massenmord="" michael="" pfe="" r="" reich="" rster="" wandel="" wie="" willi="" zeit="">Gerichtstag halten über uns selbst; Das Verfahren Fritz Bauers zur Beteilung der Justiz am Anstaltmord," "Unbewältigte Justizvergangenheit Aur Einstellung des Ermittlungsverfahrens gegen die Oberlandesgerichtspräsidenten und Generaklstaatanwälte," Hans Christoph Schaefer. (83931)     $12.50

Mende, Susanne. Die Wiener Heil- und Pflegeanstalt "Am Steinhof" im Nationalsozialismus. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaft, 2000. ISBN: 3-631-36002-9. Octavo, glossy paper covers, xviii, 229 pp., b/w photos, bibliography, chronology, facsimiles of documents, index. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Medizingeschichte im Kontext Band 3. (84148)     $65.00

Schilter, Thomas. Unmenschliches Ermessen: Die nationalsozialistische ,,Euthanasie" - Tötungsanstalt Pirna-Sonnenstein 1940/41. Leipzig, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1999. ISBN: 3-378-01033-9. Octavo, paper covers with flaps, 320 pp., b/w photos, tables, notes, sources, index. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Schriftenreihe der Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten zur Erinnerung an die Opfer politischer Gewaltherrschaft (84214)     $150.00

Seidler, Horst and Rett, Andreas. Rassenhygiene: Ein Weg in den Nationalsozialismus. Vienna and Munich, Jugend un Volk, 1988. ISBN: 3-224-16530-8. Octavo, printed cloth covered boards, 291 pp., b/w photos, documents, bibliography. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in German. Inscribed by Seidler on the free front endpaper. (83932)      $7.95

Wunder, Michael; Genkel, Ingrid and Jenner, Harald. Auf dieser schiefen Ebene gibt es kein Halten mehr: Die Alsterdorfer Anstalten in Nationalsozialismus. Hamburg, Vorstand der Alsterdorfer Anstalten, 1988. 2. Auflage. ISBN: 3-7600-04-55-S. Oblong quarto, glossy paper covered boards, 241 pp., b/w photos, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Germany. Herausgegeben vom Vorstand der Alsterdorfer Anstalten, Pastor Rudi Mondry. (84434)     $30.00

Sources:

Black, Edwin. Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection. San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, November 9, 2003. Retrieved, 8/27/2017, http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php

No Mas Bebes. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mas-bebes/ Link describes the documentary which aired February 1st, 2016.

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A few Yiddish imprints from the teens & twenties

The physical qualities of Yiddish books in the period between 1880 and 1920 are distinct from both Yiddish books published in the earlier and later periods. Content alone makes the materials published after 1880 distinct from the earlier material. A large amount of the material that appeared at this time was issued in small pamphlets often with delicate colored paper covers. We do see some survivors in original wraps but more have survived as a result of bindings that were added. The standards of printing improved over the decade between 1920 and 1930 in both the US and Eastern Europe. Better paper became more widely available and Yiddish orthography curtailed the older preference for Germanic style. Below are a few samples of that era. All are available on the hollanderbooks website.

Hirschbein, Peretz. Der Inteligent: A Drama in 3 Akten. Warsaw, Ferlag A. Gitlin, 1914. Small octavo, black cloth spine with a paper label, black cloth covered boards with mild edgewear, 46 pp., yellowed paper . Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (83919) 

Hirschbein grew up in poverty. He was sent by his family to study and "eat" in the home of sponsors and sleep on the bench in the study house. His first inkling of a world beyond came from the booklets of Shomer, but he accepted the intellectual viewpoint that Hebrew was the language in which proper Jewish literature should be composed. His early works were written in Hebrew and then translated into Yiddish sometimes by others and sometimes by himself. Hirschbein's Hebrew play, Shevarim (Pieces), dealt with the internal frustration and self-defeat of an intellectual, like the author, who fails to connect with "the masses. Der Inteligent is the Yiddish translation of that work. The first editon, which is physically smaller, was published in 1907 by Yavneh. This is the second edition. A last separate edition was published after the First World War.

Hirschbein wrote a large body of plays. As a result of wanderlust that sent him to England, Argentina, the United States, Israel, India and Canada among other places gave his plenty of material for travelogues of which he published a number. In his teens he was associated with the later folklorist Elzet (Zlotnick). He later worked with both Ansky and Bialik. In the theater he worked with Maurice Schwartz and Rudolph Schildkraut among others. He met his wife, the author Esther Shumiachter, on one of his visits to Canada. They had one son. After they had their son Hirschbein and Schumiachter remained in the US for most of the rest of their lives, first on the East Coast and ultimately in Los Angeles where Hirschbein passed away. 
Hirschbein was a vital presence in Yiddish theater in his lifetime, but the Yiddish theater dramatically faded away just as Hirschbein's life came to an end. He is now little discussed. If he had written in Russian perhaps his plays would still get performed. His work was translated in several different languages in his lifetime. The Perets Hirshbayn-Bikher-Komitet published a memorial edition of his works in 1951, but relatively few editions of his work appeared after that. $60.00


Justman, Moshe Bunem. In'm Reben's hoyf: a interesante ertsehlung: fun Hasidishen leben in Poylen. Warsaw, Farlag B. Shimin, [1914]. Octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, 207 pp., yellowed paper. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (83908) The first edition of this work was also published in Warsaw, but three years earlier. Justman's real name was Yushzon and he came from a Hasidic family. He joined the Mizrachi Party and became a very active journalist starting in his late teens. He was only twenty-two when In'm Reben's hoyf was first published. He is best known today for his collection of Yiddish/ Hasidic folkloric materials Fun unzer altn oytser which appeared in Poland in 1932 and later in American and Israeli editions. It is still a popular text among Hasidic readers.  $75.00

Lafargue, Paul. Di froy un di arbayter-frage. Translated into Yiddish by A.L Bound with several additional works. Warsaw, Ferlag "Progres", 1906. Duodecimo, green cloth with minor wear at the spine ends, 26, 14, 32, 32, 96, 16, 32, 12, 12 pp.,  Hardbound. Good. Texts are in Yiddish. Additional works are "Der Leher, Ertsehlungen," Abraham Reisin, Warsaw, Farlag Bikher Far Ale, 1905; "Di ershte yedies` fun magnetizm un elektritsitet," by P Kantorovits and translated into Yiddish by A P Nechaev, Warsaw, Ferlag "Yavneh," 1907. Visnshaftslikhe Folks-Bibliotek No. 2, with three b/w drawings; "Privat-eygentum," Abraham Simchah Sachs, Warsaw, Farlag Bikher Far Ale, 1906; "Patriotizmus un internatsyonalitet," A Haman, London, Arbeyter fraynd, 1904. "Ertsehlung vegen zieben gehangene," Leonid Andreyev, translated into Yiddish by Noah Prilutski, Nyu York, Literarisher ferlag, 1916, illustrated title-page; "Vi azoy men flegt behalten revolutsyonern (Nokh Stepniak)," Yisroel Iser Cohen, Warsaw, Tipografia I. Edelshteina, 1907; "Vos vilen di sotsyalisten: an aynfakhe erklehrung," Wilhelm Bracke, translated into Yiddish by Sh. Peskin, New York, M. Gurevitch, c. 1907, torn title-page; "Vos Iz Tsiyonism?" lacking title page and bibliographic data, possibly aslo from the M. Gurevitch Book Store; "Di kameye: ertsehlung," Mordecai Ze'ev Feuerberg, translated into Yiddish from the Hebrew by Y. Y. Propus, edited by Y.H. Ravnitzky, Minsk, Ferlag "Kultur," c. 1906. (83895)

Palimsest texts like this one are not uncommon. They are something that I look for. The bindings of these collections are contemporary with the pamphlets. I have no idea whether these were produced by booksellers, lending libraries, or individuals. This collection is a pretty wide ranging miscellany. Paul Lafargue was a Marxist theorist with the credential of having married Karl Marx's second daughter Laura. Literature is represented by Abraham Reisen and Leonid Andreyev. There are additional pamphlets on Socialism, Feminism and Zionist themes. There is even one dealing with Magnetism and Electricity. These collections can be hard to manage and often the pamphlets after the first one in the volume are masked. (Microfilm reels also have a similar problem.) Some booksellers will break up these collections to sell the pamphlets individually. I find these collections interesting for both what they contain and for the way the different items play off each other.    $150.00

Lafargue, Paul. Di religyon fun kapital. Warsaw, Ferlag "Di Velt", 1906. Duodecimo, black cloth spine with a paper label, worn marbled paper covered boards, original paper covers bound in, 64 pp.  Hardbound. Very Good. Translated into Yiddish by [?]. With a rare bookplate on the inside front cover with the rules for circulation at "Da Hibru Progresiv Laybreri," in Richmond, Virginia. La religion du capital, was first published in 1886 and was translated into a variety of different languages (including this Yiddish edition) during the author's lifetime. Lafargue was the first socialist elected to the French parliament. (83896)     $75.00

Taflewitz, Adolph. Di fershleyerte muze. Poezye: Ershter Band. New York, The Author, 1923. Paper covers with a green cloth spine, frontispiece photo, 160 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Taflewitz's only book. An uncommon work by an author not noted in the Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur or Leksikon fun Yidish-Shraybers. (83887)     $50.00

Yubileum-shrift tsu Ab. Kahan's 50sten geburtstog 1860-1910. New York, Aroysgegeben fun dem Yublieum-Komite, 1910. Octavo, black cloth with minor wear and a small paper label on the spine, lacking the free front endpaper (probably), 112 pp., b/w photo, mild soiling, Cahan bibliography, list of the members of the Jubilee Committee. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish except for short comments in English by J.G. Phelps Stokes and Charles Edward Russell. Includes chapters by A. Liesen, Saul Badanes, Dr. Rayevsky, Alexander Harkavy, B. Weinstein, B. Faigenbaum, Cahan, Morris Rosenfeld, S. Yanovsky, and M. Borochov. (83902)     $75.00

Sources:

Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur. New York, CYCO, 1956-1981.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com (Based on the Leksikon and other Yiddish sources.)

http://www.worldcat.org/

Yiddishe Dikhterin

For most of a decade I worked on a collection of works by and about women in Yiddish. I amassed one of the best collections of work from the modern period, but I was never able to place it with an institution as I had hoped. Inquiries are welcome. A full printed bibliography with many illustrations is available to any institution with a serious interest. Price and details available upon request.

Below are some interesting items newly acquired and among the less common titles in this area. All are currently available on the Hollander Books website.

Heller, Miriam. Oygn reyd: lider. New York, Farlag "Ramim", 1963. Octavo in dust jacket with wear at the corners and the head of the spine, frontispiece photo, 206 pp., index of first lines. Hardbound. Very Good-. Text is in Yiddish. The author's only book.This item is illustrated in my post on uncommon dust jackets.  (83918)     $45.00

Locker, Malka. Du: lider. Tel Aviv, Farlag "Yam", 1932. Small octavo, paper covers with minor edgewear, 84 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. This was Locker's second book. The first was published the year before in Paris by Editions "Le Triangle." There is an advertisement for that book on the last page of this one. Her husband Berl Locker was a very active Zionist and in 1932 was living in London and working as a member of the board of the Jewish Agency. The choice of Tel Aviv as a place of publication is a bit unusual but probably came out of their Zionist connections. Locker's husband served one term in the mid-1950s in the Knesset. It appears that after independence the Lockers lived in Israel. Malka Locker published a variety of works on major French poets such as Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine in that period. They have been translated into French, English and other languages. The outward looking nature of this project showed an optimism that may have belied a feeling of linguistic displacement in the Yiddish intolerant new Jewish state. (83884)     $50.00

Molodowsky, Kadia. Heshvndike Nekht: Lider [Heshwan`dike necht]. Vilna, Farlag fun B. Kletzkin, 1927. Small octavo, green cloth spine, green paper covered boards with a printed paper panel over the front board, 96 pp., yellowed paper, free front endpaper. Hardbound. Very Good-. Text is in Yiddish. The author's first book. Molodowsky was one of the greatest Yiddish poets in the Modern period. She had a very strong education. Her father taught her Bible and Talmud together with his male students. She lived in Kiev during the early 1920s. Kiev at the time was a cauldron of Yiddish writing and artistic production. Her poetry began to appear in various literary magazines in 1920. After Kiev she moved to Warsaw where she was engaged in circle around the magazine Literarische Bleter which included other talented youngsters like Isaac Bashevis Singer. Heshvandike Nekht was her first book length publication. Right from the beginning Molodowsky brought women's concerns to the forefront in her poetry. (83891)     $95.00

Molodovsky, Kadya [Kadie]. Afn Barg. New York, Yungvarg Bibliotek, bam Kooperativn Folks-Farlag fun Internatsyonaln Arbeter Ordn, 1965. Octavo, green cloth with a paper label on the spine, marbled paper covered boards 72 pp., b/w illustrations by Ruth Israel, Mane Katz and William Gropper. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Afn Barg was Molodowsky's first publication in the US. She was a talented writer for children. This collection includes many poems with two line stanzas with end rhymes. All of the poems have multiple stanzas  which was a difference from the style of her poetry for adults. The collections in full of amusing drawings. It was used in the Internationaler Odrn Shuln, the most radically left-wing of all of the secular Yiddish schools. (83894)     $60.00

Rolnik, Mashe [Rolnikayte, M.]. Ikh Muz Dersteyln. Warsaw - Moscow, Yidish Bukh, 1965. Octavo in dust jacket with minor chipping, frontispiece photo, 263 pp., b/w photos. Softbound. Very Good-. Text is in Yiddish. OCLC Number: 41217947.   Rolnik and her family had just recently moved to Vilna as the Nazis overtook Eastern Europe. She suffered in the Ghetto there and later at the Riga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof concentration camps. She kept a diary sometimes on paper but at other times only in her head. She was a song-writer as well but apparently destroyed her manuscripts. This work is the rewritten version of her memoirs from the Holocaust years. She is remembered in an article by Itzik Gottesman on the blog "Yiddish Song of the Week," which includes a recording of her talking about her experiences and includes the text and music associated with a few of her songs. Gottesman indicated that it is possible that a number of songs attributed to "the folk" were actually here compositions. This item is illustrated in my post on uncommon dust jackets. (83924)   $45.00


Turkow, Jonas, edited by. Ala Golomb-Grinberg: di kranknshvester in Varshever Geto. Tel Aviv, Irgun yots'e Mlaveh be-Yisrael/ Farband fun Mlaver in Yisroel, 1970. Octavo, tan cloth with black spine lettering and with black lettering in a red lozenge on the front board, frontispiece photo, 90 pp., b/w photos and two pages of illustrated documents. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Golomb-Grinberg was the head nurse in the hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto. Turkow was one of the fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto and survived the revolt in the Ghetto. He is the author on many useful account of the Holocaust time many of the published in the series Dos Poylishe Yidntum in Buenos Aires. (83901)     $65.00


Sources

Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur. New York, CYCO, 1956-1981. Joshua Fogel has been translating this work and turning it into a searchable resource since 2014. He is also integrating additional information from the later Leksikon fun Yidishe-Shrayers, by Berel Kagan. Kol ha-Kavod

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Uncommon Dust Jackets on Yiddish Books

Dust jackets on Yiddish books are relatively uncommon. Below are a selection of titles that were issued with dust jackets and managed to remain with them. Part of the interest in book collecting is in being able to see cultural objects as they appeared in their original state and time. This is particularly difficult with Yiddish books. I have a few ideas about it, but no real proof to support any of them.

All are currently available at the Hollander Books website.

Brusilow, Nisn [Nathan Brusilow]. Di Shtile Erd: Roman fun a Fargangener Velt/ The Quiet Earth: A Tale of an Extinct World. New York, CYCO Bicher-Verlag, 1957. Octavo in an attractive Saul Raskin illustrated dust jacket with a few short tears, 367 pp.  Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (22285)      $45.00

Feldman, Richard. Shvarts un vays/ Black and White: Stories of South Africa. New York, Tsiko Farlag, 1957. Octavo in dust jacket, 232 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (83897)     $45.00

Guiser, M. D. Yulyus un Mari (1905)/ Julius un Mary (1905). Buenos Aires, The Author, 1950. Octavo in dust jacket with a couple of slight tears, 96 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (83922)     $50.00

Haeckel, Ernst. Di velt-retenishn: populere shtudyes iber monistisher filozofye. Warsaw - New York, Yatshkovskis populer visnshaftlekhe bibliotek, 1929. Octavo in dust jacket, 353 pp., yellowed paper. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is translated into Yiddish by Elim Bronstein. Yatshkovskis populer visnshaftlekhe bibliotek No. 2. Copies of books in this series are relatively uncommon for a "popular library." It was perhaps a little too high brow. (83912)     $65.00

Heller, Binem, edited by. Dos lid iz Geblibn: Lider fun Yidishe Dikhter in Poyln Umgekumenen b'es der Hitlerisher Okupatsye. Antologye. Warsaw, Farlag Yidish=Bukh, 1951. Octavo, paper covers in a delicate dust jacket with edgewear and minor soiling, 271 pp. Yellowed paper. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. (83917)     $50.00

Heller, Miriam. Oygn reyd: lider. New York, Farlag "Ramim", 1963. Octavo in dust jacket with wear at the corners and the head of the spine, frontispiece photo, 206 pp., index of first lines. Hardbound. Very Good-. Text is in Yiddish. (83918)     $45.00

Hirshhoyt [Hirszhaut], J.[ulian]. Fintstere Nekht in Paviak (Zikhroynes, Geshtaltn, Bilder). Buenos Aires, Tzentral-Farband fun dos Poilishe Yidntum in Argentine , 1948. Small octavo in dust jacket with slight edgewear, 239 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Bikher-Serie dos Polilshe Yidntum Band 37. This entire series appeared with dust jacket, but they are still less common than one would expect. (16779)     $50.00

Rapoport, Shabsa. Zamlung/ Essays. Toronto, Canada, Pomer Poblishing un Printing Ko., 1955. Octavo in dust jacket, 226 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (83921)     $50.00

Rolnik, Mashe [Rolnikayte, M.]. Ikh Muz Dersteyln. Warsaw - Moscow, Yidish Bukh, 1965. Octavo in dust jacket with minor chipping, frontispiece photo, 263 pp., b/w photos. Softbound. Very Good-. Text is in Yiddish. OCLC Number: 41217947. Farlag Yidish Bukh printed many books with dust jackets over paper covers. Some remain, but most of the books from the press still lack them. (83924)     $45.00

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Various Dovid Katz related Yiddish titles

Brooklyn born and Yeshiva of Flatbush educated Dovid Katz went on to receive a doctorate in linguistics at Columbia University for his thesis, Explorations in the History of the Semitic Component in Yiddish. Katz founded the Founding Instructor in Yiddish at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies (OCPHS) [later the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies]. The Yiddish program was strong and healthy during his residence. He tried to establish a separate Institute for Yiddish but this failed with due to financial issues. 
         During his time at Oxford he published three volumes of Oksforder Yiddish. These were the first major publications of Yiddish scholarly articles in Yiddish published after the Holocaust (excepting the YIVO bleter). Oksforder Yiddish reminds one of the large anthologies of academic articles published by YIVO in Vilna and Berlin before the war. He published works that tried to establish standards for Yiddish language that would create a common spelling, grammar and stylistics. He also published several creative literary works under a pseudonym. All of these works exhibit similar aesthetics in their bindings and typography. Below we offer a number of them. All are currently available at the Hollander Books website.

Estraikh, Gennady. Moskver Purim-shpiln: dertseylungen/ Moscow Purim Plays: Yiddish Short Stories/ Dramau Byrion Idish: Straeon Byrion Idish. Rowen, County Gwynedd, Wales, Three Sisters Press, 1993. Small octavo, decorative paper covered boards, 151 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Mlotek. (83910)      $50.00

Fain, Yonia. Nyu-Yorker Adresn: Dertseylungen/ New York Addresses: Yiddish Short Stories/ Cyfeiriadau Efrog Newydd straeon byrion Idish. Rowen, Wales, Three Sisters Press, 1995. ISBN: 1-874386-05-6. Octavo, silver cloth covered boards with black lettering, 403 pp., b/w drawings by the author. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish (45208)      $50.00

Katz, Dovid, edited by. Oksforder Yidish: A Yearbook of Yiddish Studies I. London, Harwood Academic Publishers in cooperation with the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1990. First Edition. ISBN: 3-7186-4979-9. Royal octavo, printed tan boards, 402 pp. Hardbound. Fine. In Yiddish. Articles are "Yiddish in Yiddish," Dovid Katz, "Blitz and Witzenhausen: New Aspects of an Old Conflict," Marion Aptroot, "Yiddish Culture in Prewar Piotrkow (Pyeterkov)," Majer Bogdanski, "Jews in Polish Folklore," Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski, "Halachic Sources of Old Yiddish Words, " Joseph Bar-El, "On Mendele's Syntax in 'Fishke der krumer,'" Lewis Glinert, "Why do Literary Historians Ignore A.N. Stencl?" Jeffrey Grossman, "On the Origins of Ashkenaz and Yiddish," Shmuel Hiley, "Abraham Sutzkever's 'Ode tsu der toyb,'" Heather Valencia, "The Politics of Researching Spoken Yiddish in the USA and the USSR," Rakhmiel Peltz, "In Honor of Professor Chone Shmeruk," S.S. Prawer, "Older Yiddish Lexicography: Sources and Methods," Dovid Katz, "Watchmaking in Mikhalishek," Menke Katz, "A Conspiracy and a Question Mark," Robert D. King, "Irony in Arthur Schnitzler and Lamed Shapiro," Dafna Clifford, "Beginnings of Modern Literary Yiddish (1771-1798)," Dov-Ber Kerler, "My Teacher Elye Falkovitsh," Joseph Kerler, "Remnants of Yiddish in the German of Schopfloch," Hadassah Shy, "Yiddish Literature and Collective Memory: The Khmelnitski Pogroms," Chone Shmeruk, "In Memorium: Hartog Beem," "In Memorium: Florence Guggenheim-Grunberg," "Seven Letters from Sholem Ash to Moyshe Sanders." (43083)      $125.00

Katz, Dovid. Tikney takanos: fragn fun Yidisher stilistik/ Amended Amendments: Issues in Yiddish Stylistics. Oxford, UK, Oksforder Yidish Press in cooperation with the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1993. ISBN: 1-897744-00-5. Octavo, glossy paper covered boards, 354 pp., bibliography, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Based upon principles established by the author's father, the Yiddish poet, Menke Katz (1906-1991). (45896)      $50.00

Menkes, Heershadovid. Eldra Don: un andere mayses/ Eldra Don: a straon byrion Idish eraill (Eldra Don and other Yiddish short stories). Rowen, Wales, Farlag "Dray shvester", 1992. ISBN: 1-874386-00-5. Small octavo, glossy decorative paper covered boards with matching endpapers, 191 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. OCLC Number: 30154632. (46498)     $30.00

Meynkes, Hirshe=David [Heershadovid Menkes]. Der Flakher Shpits: Mesiyos fun Vilner Gubernye/ The Flat Peak: Tales of the Province of Vilna/ Y Copa Gwastad: a storiau Idish eraill o Dalaith Filna. Rowen, Wales, Farlag "Dray Shvester", 1993. ISBN: 1-874386-01-3. Octavo, glossy paper covered boards meant to look live marbled paper covered boards, iv, 188 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish (29876)      $25.00

Klal-takones fun Yidishn oysleyg: loytn heskem fun 752-1992 tsvishn di opteylungen fun Yidisher shprakh un literatur baym Oksforder Universitet, Bar-Ilan Universitet, Vilner Universitet, Tel Aviver Universitet/ Code of Yiddish Spelling ratified by the programmes in Yiddish language and literature at Bar Ilan University, Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, Vilnius University. Oxford, Farlag Oksforder Yidish: Be-shutfes mitn Oksforder Tsenter far hekhere Hebreishe shtudies, 1992. Octavo, black cloth with gold lettering, 55 pp.  Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish (36518)      $40.00

Sources

Oksforder Blues, by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Retrieved 7/12/2107:  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/an-oksforders-blues/105419.article

Dovid Katz personal website. Retrieved 7/10/2017: http://dovidkatz.net/index.htm

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