Yiddish Trade Periodicals as Literary Magazines

The Yiddishist world is just different. You can go into the drugstore or a roadside convenience store or the bookstore in the airport and find all sorts of very specialized magazines about computers, or men's health, or women's health, or guns, or fly-fishing, or investing. Why a journal for furniture manufacturers and suppliers and another for cemetery workers ought to feel that half their mission was the furtherance of the literature of a minor language. Below are selections from the runs of both of the journals I am alluding to. The "Der Holts-industryal: Hoydesh-Zshurnal," is lightly held be libraries. The "Yerlikher Report Semetari Department," annuals were produced by the Cemetery Workers who were members of the Arbeter Ring in New York. You would have expected them to be more widely held but those aren't all that common elsewhere. The twenty-fifth year appears to be the earliest year that is held. The issues listed here are professionally done. The earlier issues might have been more primitive and ephemeral, but that is only a guess.

Sapoznikow, G., edited by. Der Holts-industryal: Hoydesh-Zshurnal fun Farayn fun Holts-un Ayzen-Industyaln in Argentine. VI-ter Yorgang, Yuli, 1946, Numer 68/ El Indutrial Maderero Año VI, Julio de 1946, No. 68. Buenos Aires, Asociacion Industriales de la Madera y del Hierro (Argentina), 1946. Quarto, paper covers with wear and minor loss to the spine, 159, 137 pp., b/w photos, ads, yellowed paper. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish with a section in Spanish at the rear. (77866)     $50.00

Sapoznikow, G., edited by. Der Holts-industryal: Hoydesh-Zshurnal fun Farayn fun Holts-un Ayzen-Industyaln in Argentine. VII-ter Yorgang, Yuli, 1947, Numer 80. Buenos Aires, Asociacion Industriales de la Madera y del Hierro (Argentina), 1947. Quarto, paper covers badly bumped at the bottom open corner, 146 pp., b/w photos, ads, yellowed paper. Hardbound. Fair. Text is in Yiddish. (77868)     $25.00

Sapoznikow, G., edited by. Der Holts-industryal: Hoydesh-Zshurnal fun Farayn fun Holts-un Ayzen-Industyaln in Argentine. VIII-ter Yorgang, Yuli, 1948, Numer 92/ El Indutrial Maderero Año nXV Anuario. Buenos Aires, Asociacion Industriales de la Madera y del Hierro (Argentina), 1948. Quarto, paper covers, 174 pp., b/w photos, ads,  Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (77865)     $65.00

Sapoznikow, G., edited by. Der Holts-industryal: Hoydesh-Zshurnal fun Farayn fun Holts-un Ayzen-Industyaln in Argentine. X-ter Yorgang, Yuli, 1950, Numer 112. Buenos Aires, Asociacion Industriales de la Madera y del Hierro (Argentina), 1950. Quarto, paper covers, 210 pp., b/w photos, ads, yellowed paper. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. (77867)     $65.00

Ayn-un-Draysik Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring 1938. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1938. Octavo, paper covers, 102 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear. Includes both poems suitable for the cemetery and mourning and the contemplation of mortality as well as the hard details of the Union's business matters. (77741)      $35.00

34 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1941. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1941. Octavo, paper covers, 156 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear. (77742)     $35.00

37 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1944/ 37 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1944. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1944. Octavo, paper covers, 86, 82 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77743)     $35.00

39 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1946/ 39 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1946. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1946. Octavo, paper covers, 82, 56 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77744)     $35.00

41 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1948/ 41 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1948. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1948. Octavo, paper covers, 98, 78 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77745)     $35.00

43 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1950/ 43 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1950. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1950. Octavo, paper covers, 98, 78 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77746)     $35.00

44 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1951/ 44 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1951. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1951. Octavo, paper covers, 90, 70 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77747)     $35.00

47 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1954/ 47 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1954. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1954. Octavo, paper covers, 48, 32 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77748)     $35.00

49 Yerlikher Report Semeteri Department Arbeyter Ring - 1907-1956/ 49 Years Cemetery Department Workers, Inc., 1907-1956. New York, Cemetery Dept. Workmen's Circle, 1956. Octavo, paper covers, 58, 22 pp., b/w photos, tables. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish and with an English language section at the rear.  (77749)     $35.00

Another mostly Mandate Palestine Miscellany

Sometimes the most interesting books come in and go right out. These books have been kicking around for some time and no-one seems to have ever noticed them. They all belonged to the same reader once upon a time.


Cornfeld, Peretz, edited by. Palestine Personalia 1947. Tel Aviv, Palestine Personalia, 1947. Octavo in dust jacket with minor edge wear and a quarter sized chip at the head of spine, 360 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. Includes members of all groups, Jewish, Arab and British. (47509) Cornfeld was involved in later in most of the collective biographical directories published in the 1945-1949 period. These are all uncommon. This one, which includes a section "Palestinian Institutions and Enterprises," has only about a dozen holdings internationally.     $95.00

Halevy, Shoshana. Ha-Sefarim ha-Ivriyim she-nidpesu bi-Yerushalayim ba-hamishim ha-shanim ha-rishonot: 601-651 (1841-1891)/ The Printed Hebrew Books in Jerusalem During the First Half Century (1841-1891). Jerusalem, Mekhon Ben Tsevi: ha-Universitah ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim ‘al yede Kiryat sefer, 1963. Quarto in dust jacket, 202 pp., b/w illustrations of title pages, indexes. Hardbound. Very Good. In Hebrew. 662 items listed (24762)     $40.00

Halevy, Shoshana. Ha-Sefarim ha-Ivriyim she-nidpesu bi-Yerushalayim ba-hamishim ha-shanim ha-rishonot: 601-651 (1841-1891)/ The Printed Hebrew Books in Jerusalem During the First Half Century (1841-1891). Jerusalem, Mekhon Ben Tsevi: ha-Universitah ha-‘Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim ‘al yede Kiryat sefer, 1963. Quarto , soiled black cloth with gold lettering, 202 pp., b/w illustrations of title pages, indexes. Hardbound. Very Good. In Hebrew. 662 items listed (27551)     $25.00

Lewin-Epstein, Elias Wolf. Zikhronotai. Tel Aviv, Hotsaat ha-ahim Levin Epshtain ve-shutafam, 1932. Royal octavo, paper covers with a paper label on the front cover, 387 pp., b/w photos, errata sheet. Softbound. Very Good. In Hebrew. Lewin-Epstein was an early Zionism from Lithuania. He was one of the founders of the settlement of Rehovot and the manager of the Jewish Agricultural Colony there. He was one of the founders of the Carmel Wine Company. He participated in the Ahiasaf Publishing Company and was one of the founders of Lewin-Epstein Publishing House which was for many years a leading publishing company in Mandate Palestine and Israel.  (47293)     $40.00

Sapoznikow, G., edited by. Der Holts-industryal. Yorbukh 1955 VXter Yorgang/ El Indutrial Maderero Año XV Anuario. Buenos Aires, Asociacion Industriales de la Madera y del Hierro (Argentina), 1955. Quarto, green cloth with gold lettering, 232, 16 pp., b/w photos, ads, brief introductory section in Spanish at the rear, minor water-rippling at the base of the text block. Hardbound. Good. In Yiddish with a small Spanish language section at the rear. A combination furniture manufacturer's trade journal and Yiddish literary magazine. Thirty literary contribution primarily from known Yiddish litterateurs.  (47502)   Not widely held.  $50.00

Shamri, Arie. L[amed] v.[av.] shirim al Lezer Tsipres: poemah. Tel Aviv, Hotsa'at ha-K.buts ha-Artsi ha-Shomer ha-tsair, 1939. Quarto, maroon cloth with black lettering, 88 pp., illustrations by Yitshak Polikvits. Foxing to the endpapers. Hardbound. Very Good. Translated into Hebrew from the Yiddish by A. Shlonski. Shamri was a prolific Yiddish author. This is the only volume of translations of his writings into Hebrew or any other language. Shlonsky was one of the most important Hebrew language author in Mandate Palestine. More on him below. I am not sure exactly who the illustrator is, but the work is interesting. (27786)      $75.00

Shatz, Z[vi]. Al gevul ha-demamah: ketavim. Tel Aviv, Hotsaat Davar, 1929. Small octavo, soiled paper covers, 166 pp., mild foxing. Softbound. Good. In Hebrew (47353)     $30.00

Shlonsky, Abraham. Devai: shete po'emot dramatiyot. Tel Aviv, 1924. Octavo, paper covers with edgewear and a small chip at the base of the front cover, 135 pp., two pasted-in illustrations and the cover design by Pinchas Litvinovsky. Softbound. Good. In Hebrew. Shlonsky the leader of the generation of modernist Hebrew writings in the cohort that followed Brenner and Bialik. He was particularly active as a translator with a preference for Russian literature. There are those who feel that modern Hebrew syntax has more to do with Russian syntax than Biblical Hebrew syntax and if there is any truth in that Shlonsky is the one to blame. In his later career be came to represent a more conservative stream within Hebrew literature Litvinovsky  attended the Odessa Academy of Art, the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, and the  Academy of Art, Petrograd, in 1917. He was influenced by Constructivism. In 1926, he designed the sets for the Habima production of Ansky's Dybbuk. In later years he worked in Expressionist and then Minimalist styles. He has had exhibits at the major Israeli Art Museums and his works sell well in only in the four and five figure range. (47506)    $125.00

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Selections from Our German Language Holdings

There are quite a few books in my stock that no one knows I have. Here are a few of them.


Beer, B. Leben Abraham's nach Auffassung der jüdische Sage mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und Nachweisungen. Leipzig, Oskar Leiner, 1859. Octavo, brown cloth spine with fraying at the spine ends, marbled paper covers, xvi, 216 pp., index, errata. Hardbound. Very Good. In German (41389) Bernhard Beer was an auto-didact from Dresden He became a volunteer preacher and a respected scholar. This title is not one of the ones attributed to Beer in the entry that describes him in the Jewish Encyclopedia.   $35.00

Herzl, Theodor. Gesammelte Zionistische Werke In fünf Bänden. I. Band: Zionistische Shriften. Band II/ III/ IV: Herzls Tagebücher. Band V. Das Neue Ghetto/ Altneuland/ Aus Dem Nachlass. In Five Volumes. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1934, 1934, 1934, 1934, 1935. Mixed editions, third, second and firsts, but uniform. Octavos, paper covers in dust jacket pasted down to the spines and flaps, frontispiece photo, 542 pp. + frontispiece photo, 647 pp. + frontispiece photo, 620 pp. + frontispiece photo, 661 pp., index + frontispiece photo, 555 pp. Dust jacket of volume One is badly damaged. Rear panel is lost. Minor damage to the other dust jacket. Chip to the rear panel of the dust jacket of the fifth volume. Softbound. Good. In German (40730)      $95.00

Jellinek, Ad[olph]. Studien und Skizzen. Der jüdische Stamm. Ethnographishe Studien. Vienna, Herzfeld & Bauer, 1869. 16mo, dark green cloth spine frayed at the head and with a hand-written paper label, shelfworn paper covered boards, x, 224 pp. Hardbound. Good. In German (39601)  Jellinek was admired widely among German Jews in the nineteenth-century for his homieltics. He was also an expert on Kabbalah and Jewish Folklore. This is one of his collections of Jewish ethnography.    $35.00

Kopi. Joël Gern; der Werdegang eines jüdischen Mannes. Frankfurt a. Main, Verlag von J. Kauffmann, 1912. Duodecimo, black cloth with white lettering, 110 pp., yellowed lettering. Hardbound. Good. In German. Rare. Kopi is the Pseudonym of Jacob P. Kohn. (40629)     $40.00

Scherer, J.E. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Judenrechtes im Mittlealter mit besonderer Bedachtnahme auf die Länder der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Erster Band: Die Rechsverhältnisse der Juden in den deutsch-österreichischen Ländern. Mit einer Einleitung über die Principien der Judengesetzgebung in Europa während in Mittelalters. [Contributions to the history of Jewish law in the middle age with special consideration to the countries of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume 1: The legal relationships of the Jews in the German-Austrian countries. With an introduction about the principles of Jewish legislation in Europe during the Middle Ages]. Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1901. Octavo, black cloth with a hand-done label on the spine, xxii, 672 pp., errata. Hardbound. Very Good. In German (41433)     $75.00

Strack, Hermann L. Jüdisches Wörterbuch. Mit besonderer berücksichtigung der Gegenwärtig in Polen üblichen ausdrücke. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1916. Octavo, paper covers, xvi, 204 pp., errata. Softbound. Good. In German (41560)     $25.00

Yago-Jung, Dr. Ilse (Judith). Die nationale Frage in der jüdische Arbeiterbewegung in Rußland, Polen und Palästina bis 1929. Inaugeraldissertation zur Erlangen des Grades eines Doktors des Philosophie im Fachbereich Institution und Soziale Bewegungen der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 1976. Octavo, paper covers, 435 pp., notes, bibliography. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (43171)     $50.00



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