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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American Yiddish Children's Books

A brief selection of Children's books for American Yiddish speaking children. Some were created specifically out of the Yiddish Shuln and others were created more independently. A previous post about the artist Todros Geller can be found here. All are currently available at the Hollander Books website.

Title page.

Davidsohn, Michl. In veldl: kinder-drame in tsvey aktn. Chicago, Naye gezelshaft, 1926. Oblong octavo, brown cloth spine, tan paper covered boards with a front cover illustration by Todros Geller, illustrated endpapers, illustrated title-page, 143 pp., b/w drawings. Hardbound. Very Good. Translated from the original Hebrew most likely by the author. Hebrew edition originally published in 1918 also by Naye Gezelshaft. Probably not illustrated by Geller. (83905)
     Davidsohn was influenced and mentored by the Hebrew author Judah Steinberg. This was his only illustrated work. He did not work in the secular Yiddish schools. At the time of his death he was teaching at a Yeshiva in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. Geller's illustrations here are full-throated and ambitious.     $250.00

Ba Di Velt Gazlonim - With the Forest Bandits

Elbe [Bassein], Leon. Ingele Ringele: Di tshikave Voynderlakhe Geshikhte fun a Ingele mit a Ringole, vos iz oysgeven vo nor a hek, un voz di velt hot an ek. Di Hidushim vos er hot gezen, un alts vos mit im iz geshen. Gut far ale kinder, afilu fargroyse, nit nor far kleyne, vorn di maseh iz alts ayns a shayne/ Yingele Ringele. [New York], Farlag Matones for the Sholom Aleichim Folk Institut, 1929. Third Printing. Royal octavo, blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine and a large pastedown illustration covering the entire from board, 200 pp., a page of photos of Elbe and with full and partial page illustrations by Aaron Godelman. With a modest Yiddish to Yiddish glossary. Hardbound. Very Good. Godelman's modern style is unique but familiar.
      Ingele Rigele was originally published serially in the children's magazine of the Sholom Aleichem Folk Institute, "Kinder Zhurnal," with the Godelman illustrations that appear in the book version. Naomi Prawer Kadar discussed this book at length in her recent posthumous publication, "Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950," pp. 183-187. She points out that the idea of a young boy with a magic ring goes back to the Mendele's story/novella "Dos Vintshfingerl." She viewed this collection as one of the most successful publications coming out of the Yiddish children's magazines at provided quality children's literature that served the interests of the children first as well as meeting the educational goals of the Sholom Aleichem Folk Institut. Elbe was active in the Sholom Aleichem Folk Institut and the National Radical Schools that preceded the Folk Institut. His initial professional occupation was as a journalist with the "Di Varheit." (20859)     $60.00

From "Der Geshmisener Kyser."

From "A May'seh mit Drey Brider."

Entin, Joel. Fun folk's moyl: Idishe mayselakh far shul un hoyz; mit optaytshung fun shvere verter un mit bibliografishe notitsen nokh yeder mayse. New York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1919. Octavo, orange cloth spine with a pastedown illustration on the front cover and a pastedown list of publications on the rear cover, 201 pp. , b/w drawings by Saul Raskin, minor edgewear. With Yiddish to Yiddish notes at the base of each page. Hardbound. Very Good.
      Entin was also involved in the National Radical Schools and the stories included in this collection are probably compiled from their magazine, "Di Yidishe Kindervelt." Raskin's work in this volume as well as in the "Di Yidishe Kindervelt." are at a place between his early caricature and cartoon work and his later large scale book works. (397)     $65.00

Leib, Mani. A mays´ele in gramen fun dray zin mit a mamen. New York, Ferlag Kinder Ring bay der Arbeter Ring Bildungs Komitet, 1937. Small quarto, illustrated paper covered boards with some soiling and edgewear, soiled endpapers, 44 pp., color plates by Emanuel Romano. Hardbound. Good-
     Mani Leib was one of the immigrant generation of poets that turned towards a "literature for Literature's sake" approach in a group - "Di Yunge." His enjoyment of such literary devices as alliteration in particular made him a suitable author for children's literature and he seems to have relished writing for children. El Lisitzy's illustrated version is probably the most internationally famous book ever published for children in Yiddish. This work was published at the height of the depression and was produced at the same time that Romano (Emanuel Glicen Romano or Emanuel Glicenstein) was employed by the Federal Art Project, an off-shoot of the WPA, painting murals. Romano taught art before making aliyah in the early 1950s.  (83926)     $75.00




Kopeloff, Isidore. Amolike yorn: iberlebungen fun a Idish ingel in der alter heym. New York, Farlag Matones, 1931. Octavo, blue cloth with white spine lettering, minor wear at the spine ends, illustrated paper panel over the front board, frontispiece photo, 208 pp., b/w illustrations by Todros Geller, a few stray pen marks. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. Pen gift inscription opposite the frontispiece photo.
     Kopeloff published three volumes of his memoirs for adults. The first two appeared in Europe before this adaptation appeared in the US with Farlag Matones (publisher of the Sholom Aleichem Folk Institut). One more volume of the memoir for adults appeared subsequently in Europe which dealt with his experiences in America after his immigration. Kopeloff was born in 1858 Bobroisk, Lithuania and studies Talmud and Kabbalah in various yeshivot. He later became more involved socialism, anarchism and the labor movement. He was one of the older generation that the creators of the various Yiddish schools hoped to help young children to maintain connections with. Naomi Prawer Kadar does not mention Kopeloff or this work, but she does discuss the figure of the grandfather as a marker of the authenticity of Yiddish culture.
     Geller's work in this volume does seem to be adapted for a children and is not as hard edged as his work for adults. There are quite a few capitals with small detailed drawing that practically need a magnifying glass to appreciate.   (83885)     $50.00

Frontispiece photo of the author.

Enlargement of one of the capitals. 

 

An in-text illustration of a Rabbi's tisch. 

Sources

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

Kadar, Naomi Prawer. Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950. Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University Press, 2017. Foreword by David G. Roskies. (I have a review of this publication in manuscript. Spoiler alert: It is a positive review.)

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Pre-Thaw Soviet Yiddish Journals

What follows is a selection of various Soviet journals, primarily from the 1930s. Literature and history are the primary areas of coverage. Two different Birobidzhan publications show the poverty and perseverance of the Jewish colonists. An early Yevsktzia journal shows the fervor of the early years. In the glowing light of hind-sight Ruth Weiss condemns the Jewish left. Yet, it is there looking back at us from the traces that remain of Jewish life lived under the broad shadow of a god that failed. Shame on us if we can't make something of all of their efforts.
As of the day of posting  these items are still available at the hollanderbooks.com website. 

Afn visnshaftlekhn front: byuletin fun institut far Yidisher proletarisher kultur ba der Vaysrusisher visnshaft-akademye: peryodishe oysgabe no. 1-2. Minsk, Institut far Yidisher proletarisher kultur ba der Vaysrusisher visnshaft-akademye, 1932. Octavos, paper covers, 196 pp., mildly yellowed paper. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish (76938)   Proletarian historiography.   $75.00

Alukraynisher orgkomitet fun di Sovetishe shrayber. Farmest: literarish kinstlerisher un kritish-bibliografisher zshurnal: organ fun Alukraynishn orgkomitet fun di Sovetishe shrayber. Num 9, Sentyaber, 1937. Kharkov, Ukrmelukhenatsmindfarlag, 1937. Octavo, paper covers with minor wear, 112 pp. Softbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish.Contributors include Nair Zarian, David Hofstein, D. Volkenstein, Elye Shekhtman, Y. Kotlyar, F. Sito, A. Hoberman, H. Polianker and A. Velednitsky. Other than Hofstein these are minor authors from the Kharkov area. (76930)     $65.00

Der Komunist. Organ fun Ts. K.K.P. (B.) Oy., No. 7, Oktyaber, 1920. Kharkov, Komunistychna partiia Ukrainy. TSentral'nyi komitet., 1920. Quarto, stapled paper covers, 16 pp., printed on a rough paper used in this early Soviet period when resources were particularly scarce. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Uncommon or rare, particularly in this condition. A Yevsektzia publication with articles about the Yevsektzia and including an interesting but quite surprising article on Jews in Iceland. Paper is course stock typical of the early and impoverished first years of the revolution. (76926)      $95.00

[Etin, L., edited by?]. Forpost: Drayhoydeshdiker literarish-kinstlerisher un politish-gezelshaftlekher zshurnal fun der Yidisher avtonomer gegnt 2-3, 1940. Birobidzhan, Farlag Emes, 1940. Small octavo, paper covers with minor wear to the spine, 140 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Uncommon. Though published in Birobidzhan this journal shows that Birobidzhan was still close to the center of Soviet Yiddish life. The journal opens with a phot and poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky on Lenin. Additional contributors include David Bergelson, Der Nister, A. Hofstein, H. Dobin, Zalman Wendroff, Ay. Bronfman and B. Kushnirovitsh. (76932)      $95.00

[Etin, L., edited by?]. Forpost: Drayhoydeshdiker literarish-kinstlerisher un politish-gezelshaftlekher zshurnal fun der Yidisher avtonomer gegnt 4-5, 1940. Birobidzhan, Farlag Emes, 1940. Small octavo, paper covers with minor wear to the spine, 160 pp., with some soiling, delicate, frontispiece photos of Lenin and Stalin. Softbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. Uncommon. (76933)  Contributions by A. Kushnirok, B. Miler, Laizer Wolf, Y. Falikman, Moyshe Shimel, Sonye Heyferman, Yankev Shudrikh, S. Bordzshes, A Piatigorske, Loybe Vaserman and A. Vergelis With critical remarks by L. Singer, Y. Dobrushin, N. Grinberg and Kh. Nodel    $75.00

Etin, L., edited by. Forpost: Drayhoydeshdiker literarish-kinstlerisher un politish-gezelshaftlekher zshurnal fun der Yidisher avtonomer gegnt 2(7), 1938. Birobidzhan, Farlag Emes, 1938. Small octavo, paper covers, 185 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. Uncommon. (76931)  With contributions by A. Kushnirok and B. Smain, Leib Kvitko, David Hofstein, B. Olievsky, S. Rosen, Z. Telesin, Henekh Koyfman, N. Auslander, Abraham Goldfaden, Zalmen Giterman, T. Heilikman, O. Margolis, H. Rabinkov, M. Magid.    $95.00

Fefer, Itzik, et al., edited by. Prolit: literarish-kinstlerisher, kritish-bibliografisher khoydesh-zshurnal fun der alukrainisher asotsiatsye proletarishe shrayber. No. 12, Dekaber, 1931, Ferter Yorgang. Kharkov, Farlag "Proletari," Alukrainisher asotsiatsye proletarishe shrayber, 1931. Small octavo, paper covers, rear cover soiled and with some tears, xii, 92 pp., mildly yellowed paper. Softbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. OCLC Number: 35846128. (79341) A magazine of Proletarian Soviet literary theory. With a de rigeur opening essay by Comrade Stalin, but otherwise worth the read.      $60.00

Liberberg, Y. edited by. Visnshaft un revolyutsye: fertlyoriker zshurnal. No. 1-2, April-Yuni. Kiev, Farlag fun der Alukrainisher visnshaftlekher akademye, 1934. Octavo, rebacked in red library cloth, 171 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (76940)  The high end of Soviet Yiddish literary criticism and historiography. The left-wing of the group that participated in the YIVO literary, historical and philosophical big books.    $60.00

Liberberg, Y. edited by. Visnshaft un revolyutsye: fertlyoriker zshurnal. No. 3-4, Yuli-Dekaber. Kiev, Farlag fun der Alukrainisher visnshaftlekher akademye, 1934. Octavo, rebacked in red library cloth, old clear-tape repair to the title page, frontispiece portrait, 262 pp. Softbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. (76942)      $60.00

Makagon, A. In kamf: arbetbukh af shprakh, literatur un gezelshaftkentenish: 3 yor. Moscow - Kharkov - Minsk, Tsentrfarlag, Alukrainishe opteylung, 1930. Octavo, worn front cover with repairs and lacking rear cover, 247 pp. Softbound. Fair. Text is in Yiddish. (76939)  A very politicized reading text for older-middle schoolers or high schoolers.   $60.00

Maltinski, Kh., edited by. Birobidzhan: Literarish-Kinstlerisher un gezelshaftlekh-politisher almanakh, organ fun der Faraynigung Sovetishe shrayber fun der Yidisher avtonomer gegnt. 1 (4). Birobidzhan, SSR, Gegntlekher Farlag, 1948. Royal octavo, paper covers, 83 pp., one page of music with notation. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. (76925)   Attention on Jewish resettlement in the Soviet East faded in the US after the breakdown of the United Front era. The massive displacement of refugees in the Soviet Union during the Second World War had the same effect there. However, in the post-war period there was a local revival effort and Maltinski's journal was part of it.   $95.00

Shtern: Literarish-kinstlerish un politish visnshaftlekher khoydesh-zshurnal 9. Septyaber, 1940. Zekhtster Yorgang. Organ fun Farband Sovetisher Shrayber fun Minsk. Minsk, Farband Sovetisher Shrayber fun Minsk, 1940. Small octavo, paper covers, frontispiece photo (of Lenin, of course), 96 pp., yellowed paper. Softbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. With contributions by Binem Heller, Yitskhok Yanisovitsh, S. Berlinski, Efrayim Kaganovski, Khayim Semiatitski, I. Emiot, Yosif Okrutni, Maksim Tank, Z. Biadolya, Y. Shudrikh, Y.L. Kon, G. Gayfman, B. Mark, and A. Yuditzki (77100)      $50.00

Sovetish Literatur Almanakh: Faraynikung fun di Moskver Yidishe Sovetishe Shrayber bam Orgkomitet funem Farband fun Sovetishe Shrayber. Moscow, Farlag "Emes", 1934. Octavo, paper covers in a mildly edgeworn dust jacket, 336 pp. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. Contributions from Peretz Markish, S. Gobiner, A. Kushnirov, E. Gordon, S. Rasin, Y. Rabin, Shmuel Halkin, Ziskind Levin, Ezra Finenberg, A. Frumkin, Moshe Viner, V. Olievsky, Y. Dobrushin and Yissrael Rabinovitsh. OCLC Number: 173850740. (77351)      $75.00

Sovetish Literatur Almanakh: Faraynikung fun di Moskver Yidishe Sovetishe Shrayber bam Orgkomitet funem Farband fun Sovetishe Shrayber 2. Moscow, Farlag "Emes", 1935. Octavo, brown cloth spine, printed paper covered boards, 439 pp. Hardbound. Good. In Yiddish. Contributions from D. Bergelson, A. Kushnirov, H. Dobin, Shmuel Halkin, D. Kliatskine, B. Miler, Peretz Markish, S. Gibiner, S. Rasin, Moshe Viner, Y. Nisnboym, A. Gurshtein, Y. Dobrushin and M. Litakov. (76937)      $85.00

Sovetish Literatur Almanakh: Faraynikung fun di Moskver Yidishe Sovetishe Shrayber bam Orgkomitet funem Farband fun Sovetishe Shrayber 9-10. Moscow, Farlag "Emes", 1939. Octavo, paper covers with wear and minor loss at the head of the spine, 544 pp. Softbound. Good. In Yiddish. Contributions from Peretz Markish, David Bergelson, Shmuel Halkin. J. Joffe, S. Persov, S. Rasin, S. Ritman, Aaron Vergelis, Der Nister, David Hofstein, A. Kushnirov, Khona Levin, S. Helmond, S. Godiner, M. Golbstein, Kh. Gorevitsh, E. Gordon, Lev Kvitko, S. Kholodenko, V. Orshavsky, M. Taytsh, Taras Shevchenko, E. Finenberg, Y. Nusinov, Moshe Viner, A. Groshtein, & A. Finkenstein. (76936)      $75.00

Spivak, E., edited by. Afn shprakhfront : zamlung 3-4. Kiev, Farlag fun Ukrainisher Visnshaft-Akademye, 1935. Octavo, paper covers with minor wear to the rear cover, 355 pp. Softbound. Good. Text is in Yiddish. (77798)  The early Soviet period took a revolutionary attitude towards all aspects of life and language was one of the most active areas. Linguistics proved to be an enduring focus of Soviet life. By the mid-1930s this had become a major area of activity for the academic bureaucracy. This journal reproduces materials from a conference as well as a series of additional academic articles on linguistic issues.    $75.00

Tsaytshrift = Zeitschrift = Chasopis. Bukh Band 4-5. Minsk, Institut far vaysruslendisher kultur, yidisher sektor.; Institut belaruskae kulturi jaurejski sektar.; Institut für weissruthenische Kultur. jüdische Sektor, 1930-1931. Royal octavo, half blue cloth with a woen hand-written spine label, black cloth covered boards, xxii, 345 pp., tables, errata, xvii pp. precis of the articles in German at the rear, 312, 94 pp., yellowed paper. Hardbound. Good. Text is Yiddish except as noted. (77200)   A Soviet equivalent of the big YIVO volumes, but combining the disciplines of literary study, historiography, political economy, and bibliography.     $225.00

Tsaytshrift = Zeitschrift = Chasopis. Band 5. Literatur-Forshung. Minsk, Institut far vaysruslendisher kultur, yidisher sektor.; Institut belaruskae kulturi jaurejski sektar.; Institut für weissruthenische Kultur. jüdische Sektor, 1931. Royal octavo, olive cloth spine with a worn paper label, edgeworn marbled paper covers, original wraps bound in, 312, 94 pp., yellowed paper. Hardbound. Good. In Yiddish except as noted. (77179)      $150.00

Essential Reference Books in and on Yiddish.

    A list of particularly important works in Yiddish. With the exception of Stutchkoff's Yiddish Rhyming Lexicon these are all essential books for serious scholarly libraries. For the linguist there are many very important items. As the Gemara often says, "Learn from this."

Aronson (Chil Aron), Chil. Bilder un Geshtaltn fun Monparnas/ Scenes et Visages de Montparnasse. Paris, 1963. Folio, green cloth, xxiv, 672 pp., 314 b/w illustrations of paintings and sculptures.  Very Good. In Yiddish with a French language table of contents and list of plates at the rear. Includes sections on Montparnasse life, Parisian Cafes, the Jewish writers of Montparnasse but is predominently comprised of the plates and short essays on the artists who are Naoum Aronson, Jules Pascin, Amadeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Marc Chagall, Maurice Utrillo, Pable Picasso, George Kars, Leopold Gottlieb, Otto Freundlich, J.B. Ryback, Moise Kagan, Lasar Segall, George Merkell, Louis Marcoussis, Moise Kisling, Eugene Zak, Abraham Mintchin, Henri Glicenstein, Zygmunt Menkes, Leon Weissberg, Maurice Mendjizki, Chana Orloff, Jacques Lipchitz, Efraim Mandelbaum, Adolphe Feder, Henri Epstein, Jacques Shapiro, Mane-Katz, Pinkhas Kremegne, Adolphe Milich, Michel Kkoine, Simon Segal, Joachim Weingart, Roman Kramsztyk, Yankel Adler, Ezechiel Kirschenbaum, Jacques Loutchansky, Alfred Aberdam, Adlen, Zarfin, Leon Indenbaum, Constant, Maurice Blond, Georges Goldkorn, Leopold Kretz, Isaac Doubrynski, Fiszel Zylberberg-Zber, Isaac Pailes, Joseph Hecht, Marc Sterling Abraham Rosenbaum, Maryan, Aron Haber-Beron, Jacob Macznik, Samuel Schvede, Simon Mondzian, M. Bagel, Erna Dem, Gabriel Zendel, Joseph Pressmane, Atlan, Benn, Jacob Markiel, Robert Pikelny, Lazare Volovick, Isaac Antcher, Aria Merzer, Yankel, Zygmunt Schreter, Gleb, Arthur Kolnik, Ossipe Zadkine, Felicia Pacanowska, Nathan Rapoport, Ester Carp, Marek Halter, David Garfinkiel, Moli Chwat, Marie Chabchay. Preface by Marc Chagall. There is no more important publication on the Jewish artists of Paris and the French Avant Garde.  (11105)      $300.00

Harkavy, Alexander. Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary/ Yidish-English-Hebrayish Verterbukh. New York, Schocken/ YIVO, 1988. A Reprint of the Expanded Second Edition. ISBN: 0-8052-4027-6. Octavo, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xlvi, 583 pp. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish, Hebrew and English. With a New Introduction by Dovid Katz (32115)      $20.00 

Kagan, Berl. Sefer Ha-prenumerantn/ Hebrew Subscription Lists: With an Index to 8,767 Jewish Communities in Europe and North Africa. New York, The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in America and Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1975. Quarto, blue cloth, xx, 384, xii pp., index of the books, index of the subscribers names. Hardbound. Very Good. Introduction in English at the rear. In Hebrew. "It was the custom among writers of the past few hundred years, especially among writers on rabbinic subjects, to obtain assistance in publishing work by soliciting advance funds from potential customers. ... The common procedure was for the author to approach the rabbi of the city in which he found himself, and where he expected to find subscribers for his work, and show him the manuscript. If the author had already received written letters of approval for his manuscript from other rabbis, or if the rabbi himself perceived that the work was in the spirit of Jewish tradition and worthy of appearing in print, he would appoint one or two upstanding Jews to accompany the author as he collected subscriptions for his as yet unpublished volume. An enlightened author, of course, went to a Haskalah Jew in town, who led him, in turn, to other Haskalah Jews." from the author's English language introduction. In other words, this is the map to Jewish intellectual associations in the 18th and 19th centuries.    (12013)      $95.00 

Kingman, Gordon and Rontch, Isaac E., edited by. Di Yidishe Landsmanshaften fun Nyu York/ The Jewish Landsmanschaften of New York. Tsugegreyt durkh der Yidisher Shreyber-Grupe oyf'n Federalen Shreyber Proyekt Works Progress Administration in the City of New York. New York, I.L. Perets Shreyber Fareyn,1938. Quarto, grey cloth with black lettering, inner hinges weakened, 400 pp., b/w photos, Roster of Landsmanschaft Organizations, index, English directory. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish (21908)  The basic reference on Landsmanshaften.    $175.00

Korman, E. Yidishe Dikhterins: Antologye. Chicago, Farlag L.M. Stein, 1928. Royal Octavo, edgeworn blue cloth with gold lettering, soiled front pastedown endpaper, lxxxii, 390 pp., tipped-in b/w photos of books and manuscripts and small tipped-in portraits and drawings of the poets, b/w chapter head and tail devices by Todros Geller, notes, index. Hardbound. Good. In Yiddish. OCLC Number: 16074308. A fine collection of selected, poems by Yiddish women poets from Roizl Fishl in the 1500s on into the 1920s. Includes Anna Blokh, Roza Gutman, Ida Glazer-Andrus, Celia Dropkin, Leah K. Hofman, Pesi Hershfeld, Rashel Veprinski, Roza Yakubovitsh, Yudika, Malka Lee, Kadia Molodowsky, Bertha Kling, Zelde Knizshnik, Anna Rapport, Sore Reyzen, Miriam Ulinover. OCLC Number: 16074308. (60157)      $75.00 

Mark, Yudel & Joffe, Judah, edited by. Groyser Verterbukh fun der Yidisher Shprakh/ Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language. In Four Volumes. Incomplete, but all published. New York, Yiddish Dictionary Committee, Inc., 1961, 66, 71, 80. Quartos, red cloth with gold lettering, light soiling, xxxii, 508 + xxxii, 509-1096 + xxiv, 1097-1708 + xxiix, 1709-2333, vii pp.  Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. This massive work reached only the conclusion of Aleph, but because of the significance of that letter yielded 80,000 entries, one third of the entire Yiddish vocabulary. The work was planned to go thirteen volumes, but the deaths of Joffe and then Mark as well as many of their over 300 correspondent brought the work to a half. Perhaps someone will come along and work with whatever notes remain for the rest of the Yiddish vocabulary. Until then we will have to make do with this great achievement as is.  (13542)      $200.00

Niger, S., edited by. Der Pinkas: Yohrbukh far der Geshikhte fun der Yudisher Literatur un Shprakh far Folklor, Kritik un Bibliografye. Ershte Yorhgang. Filologishe Shriftn. Vilna, Vilner Farlag fun B. A. Kletskin, 1923. Quarto, black cloth with gold lettering, faded lettering on panels on the spine, 410 columns two to the page, 72 columns, index. Yellowed paper. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. Includes as a separate section at the rear "Di Biblioteyk funm Yidishn Filalog/ Firhundert Yor Yidishe Shprakhforshung," by Ber Borokhov. (33585)      $125.00

Rejzen, Zalman [Reisen, Zalman]. Leksikon fun der Yidisher literatur, prese un filologye: Ingantsn Ibergeorbete Farmerte un Farfulshtendikte Oysgabe.  In Four Volumes. Vilna, Vilner Farlag fun B. Kletskin, 1928, 1927, 1929, 1929. Volume One: Drite Farbeserte Oyflage. Others first printings. Quartos, half red cloth with gold lettering and blind-stamped designs over green cloth covered boards with lettering outlined in gold, x, 1288 columns (two to a page), small b/w photos + vi, 1044 columns, b/w photos + vi, 796 columns, b/w photos + viii, 912 columns, b/w photos. Yellowed paper, but as good as copy as I have seen over the years. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. A Basic reference work. (33583)  Can't tell the players without a program.    $650.00

Schaechter, Mordkhe. Plant Names in Yiddish: A Handbook of botanical terminology/ Di Geviksn=Velt in Yidish. New York, YIVO Institute for Social Research, 2005. First Edition. ISBN: 0-914512-49-8. Octavo, glossy paper covers, civ, 384 pp. Softbound. New. In Yiddish and English. In addition to being a very useful reference work it also answers to Isaac Babel's claim that Jews knew the names of only two flowers, the Rose and the Violet. (34609)      $30.00

Stutchkoff, N., compiled by. Yidisher Gramen-Leksikon (35,000 Verter)/ Jewish Rhyming Lexicon. New York, Farlag Leksik, 1931. Octavo, red cloth with raised lettering on a brown panel, 330 pp.  Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. (35446)      $75.00 

Stutchkoff, Nahum. Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Sprakh/ Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language. New York, YIVO, 1950. 1991 Reprint edition. Royal octavo, green cloth with gold and black lettering, lvi, 932 pp., notes, index. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. "The Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language" comprises over one hundred and fifty thousand words, idioms, phrases and proverbs. It consists of three sections: introductory part (I-LVI); the material proper arranged, according to concepts, into groups from 1-620a (pp. 1-730); alphabetical index (731-932). (17441) The only item of it's kind as popularized by Henry Sapoznik.    $35.00 

Sunshone, Andrew, Weinreich, Uriel, Weinreich, Beatrice S. and Neumann, Robert. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry: Prepared and published under the aegis of an Editorial Collegium Marvin Herzog (Editor-in-Chief), Vera Baviskar, Ulrike Kiefer, Robert Neumann, Wolfgang Putschke, Andrew Sunshine and Uriel Weinreich. Volume II: Research Tools/ Der yidisher shprakh- un Kultur-atlas. Tsveyter Band: Forsh-Getsayg. New York/ Tübingen, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research/ Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995. First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue cloth with black lettering, 106, 88 pp., bibliography. Hardbound. Very Good. In English and Yiddish. THIS VOLUME ONLY. The Language and Culture of Ashkenazic Jewry is based on the investigation entitled Geographic Differentiation in Coterritotial Societies. The investigation was designed by Uriel Weinreich and directed by him until 1967. Since 1967 it has been directed by Marvin Herzog. The principle researchers were Vera Baviskar z"l, Marvin Herzog, Steven Lowenstein, Mordkhe Schaechter, Beatrice S. Weinreich and Uriel Weinreich z"l. (45127)    $125.00

Weinreich, M. and Raisen, Z., edited by. Filologishe Shriften: Tsveyter Band/ Studies in Philology: Second Volume. Vilna, Vilner Farlag fun B. Kletskin, 1928. Quarto, edgeworn black cloth with gold lettering, 518, xxviii pp., b/w plates, addenda and corrigenda, English language summaries of the articles at the rear. Yellowed paper. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. Articles are "Velevele of Zbarazh and His Letters," Bernhard Wachstein, "Israel Axenfeld, New Data on His Life and Work," Sh. Ginsburg, "New and Old Words in the Yiddish bible Translation by Yehoash," Khaim Spivak, "The Struggle for Yiddish in the Old Yiddish literature," Israel Zinberg, "Assimilation of Consonants in the Yiddish Sentence," Theodore Gutmann, "The Shire-gris," J. Willer, "The Three Yiddish Books of Michael Adam," N. Shtif, "A Lamentation of the 'Meshorers' of Frankfurt," A Freimann, "Proper Names and Their Importance in Yiddish," Tsvi Shpirn, "On the use of Cases in Yiddish," E. Kaganoff, "The Slav Element and Slav Influence in Yiddish," Alfred Landau, "The First History of Yiddish Theatre," Jacob Shatzky, "Notes on Yiddish in the Burgenland," R. Stalek, "Beliefs and Customs in Connection with Death," Kh. Khayes, "The Date of Birth of Ayzik Mayer Dik," P. Kon, "A Dutch-Yiddish Bride Song of the End of the 18th Century," I.M. Hillesom, "Yiddish Elements in the Early German Jargon," Rudolf Glanz, "Notes on the Polish-Yiddish Vocabulary," Moshe Lerer, "Rare Yiddish Books in the Library of the University of Harvard," A.A. Roback, "The Song of Mobilization," W. Anderson, "On the Terminology Used in Various Trades," S. Winter, "Notes on the Ahaseurus Drama," M. Weinreich, "Contributions to Word Formation in Yiddish," Z. Raisin, "Peretz and Frishman in Their Personal Relations," N. Mayzel. (53303)      $110.00

Weinreich, M and Raisen, Z., edited by. Shriftn fun Yidishn Visnshaftlekhn Institut Filologishe Shriftn. Driter Band/ Publications of the Yiddish Scientific Institute Studies in Philology. Third Volume. Vilna, Vilner Farlag B. Kletskin, 1929. Quarto, original wraps bound in quarter buchram with dull brown marbled paper covered boards, 622, xxviii pp., slightly yellowed paper. Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish with a short section at the rear in English. Articles are "The Historical Allegory of Rabbi Meir Schatz," Isaac Rivkind, "The Lamentation (Kloglid) on the Destruction of Worms," Jacob Shatzky, "Philip Krantz and His Literary Acquaintances," Moshe Starkman, "The Genealogy of Haikl Hurwitz," Menasheh Unger, "Death in the Popular Beliefs of the Jews. A Questionaire," compiled by Sh. Ansky, "The First Hebrew-Yiddish Text-Book of Polish and its Author the Bishop Jan Chryzostom Gintyllo," Pinkhas Kon, "Lilith," I. Zoller, "An Idioticon of Lojvitch (Kowicz)," Isaiah Taub, "Thirty Unpublished Letters of Sholem-Aleichem," "From the Old Yiddish Literature. Bibliographical Notes," I. Zinberg, "New Ideas on Grammar," A Zaratzky, "Etymological Notes," Daniel Leibl, "The Yiddish Medrash 'Vajosha,'" Leo Landau, "A Newly Discovered Manuscript on the Ritual Murder Accusation in Metz (1669)," Meir ben Abraham Halevy, "Street Advertisements," Mejlekh Gromb, "Yiddish Songs in Hungary and Slovakia," Israel Taglicht, "Yiddish Surnames in the Ukraine," Sh. Weissenberg, "'Hadrath Skenim' of Rabbi Azaria de Rossi in Yiddish Translation, An hitherto Unknown Manuscript of Moshe Eisenstadt-Katzenelenbogen," Bernard Wachstein, "A Supplement to Mr. Shpirn's Article on the Importance of Proper Names in Yiddish," A.A. Roback, "Letters from J.L. Peretz to Sholem-Aleichem," Nakhman Maizel, "The Polish Folk Song 'Wojna Zydowska' ('The Jewish War')," N. Veinig, "Some remarks on the Yiddish Syntax," Eugene Kagarov, "Jehuda Joseph Lerner, a Forgotton Nihilist," Sh. Borovoi, "Transcriptions of Yiddish," Salomo Birnbaum, "Jokes and Anecdotes of 'Maskilim' and of 'Lomdim,'" Sh. Beilin, "Paul Helicz's 'Elemental oder Lesebuchlen,'" Nahum Schif, "The Yiddish Press in Roumania from 1854 to 1926," Sh.S. Roman, "Two Yiddish Songs Ridiculing the Jews," Max Weinreich, "The First Yiddish Comedy," Max Erik, "Some Yiddish Place-Names in Poland," Sam Winter, "Adjective Formation in Yiddish," Zalman Raisen, Addenda et Corrigenda (36215)     $125.00

Weinreich, Max. Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Shprakh: Baginen, Faktn, Metodn/ History of the Yiddish Language. In four Volumes. New York, YIVO, 1973. Octavos, grey cloth, xiv, 355 + xii, 399 + xii, 383 + xii, 395 pp. Volume three and four consists of the notes for the previous volumes.  Hardbound. Very Good. In Yiddish. OCLC Number: 1344347. (68847)     $150.00

Weinreich, Max. History of the Yiddish Language. In Two Volumes. New Haven, Yale University Press, Published in cooperation with the YIVO Institue for Jewish Research, 2008. Second English language edition. ISBN: 978-0-300-10887-3. Octavos, blue cloth with gold lettering, xiv, 348, 357A pp., maps and tables, + vi, 349-733, 358A-988A pp., a few maps and figures, cumulative index. Hardbound. Very Good. Translated by Shlomo Noble, with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman. With a new introduction to this edition by Paul Glasser who edited this second edition. His introduction explains the many differences between this edition and the previous one published by the University of Chicago in one volume in 1980. I had always wondered how the four volumes of the original Yiddish language edition had been squeezed into one volume. In fact only small pieces of the extensive notes (Volumes three and four) had appeared in the Chicago edition. Here there are presented in their entirety (The pagination ending in A indicated the notes), nearly one thousand pages. It is unclear whether the notes were translated by Joshua Fishman, Paul Glasser or some other hand. The notes are translated with a more contemporary eye to transliteration and are improved on where Weinreich's brevity in notation was excessive. The original index prepared by Bella Hass Weinberg has been revised and augmented by Nancy Zibman. Each volume includes an Appendix: Parallel Paragraph numbering of Max Weinreich (1973): 'Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Shprakh' and Max Weinreich (2008): 'History of the Yiddish Language,' and a Select Bibliography of Max Weinreich's Works. (69271)      $100.00