Moscow: Der Farband, 1932. 20 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from the text block, tears to spine, small pieces of paper glued to the first and last pages, otherwise very good. One of 4000 copies. In Yiddish. An issue of the first..... More
![Item #555 [WHAT WAS PUBLISHED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE DURING NEP] Katalag #5 [i.e. Catalogue #5](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/555.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1547033194)
Moscow: Aktsyen gezelshaft ‘Shul un bukh’, 1927. 40 pp.: ill., [8] ads. 19x13,5 cm. In original covers. Restored, glue traces on the inner margin of first and last pages, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Scarce. One of 15000 copies. Constructivist cover is printed in Yiddish and..... More
![Item #1913 [JEWISH LIFE IN ODESA] Odesskie rasskazy [i.e. Odesa Stories]. I. Babel](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1913.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704892006)
Moscow: GIKHL, 1931. 140, [3] pp. 19x12,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise mint. First full edition of the well-known literary cycle. Jewish writer Isaak Babel (1894-1940) was born in Odesa. He graduated from the Odesa Commercial School and the Kyiv Commercial Institute. While..... More
![Item #1133 [GEOGRAPHY IN YIDDISH] Geografiya chastey sveta i vazhneyshikh stran (krome SSSR)...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1133.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608118565)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1941. 256 pp.: iIl., maps. 22.6x14.9 cm. In original publisher’s cardboards. Spine and edges slightly rubbed. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. Third edition. ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR GEOGRAPHY MANUALS IN YIDDISH PUBLISHED FEW YEARS BEFORE THE SUPPRESSION OF JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION... More
![Item #1211 [WARTIME EDITION OF SONG OF THE SONGS] Pesn’ pesnei [i.e. The Song of the Songs] /...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1211.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617187108)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. 64 pp.: ill. 20x12 cm. Original publisher’s cardboard binding with the portrait of the author on the front cover. Covers rubbed, with small tears. Otherwise very good. The wartime edition of Sholem Aleichem’s (1859-1916) classical short stories. According to Russian National Library, ‘Der Emes’..... More
![Item #1230 [THE LAST NOVEL BY SHOLEM ALEICHEM IN KULTUR-LIGE] Motl Peysi dem khazns (ksovim fun a...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1230.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617193742)
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. 110, [2] pp. 21x14,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, pale contemporary stamps and ink marks of Ukrainian evening courses, a pencil note written on the front cover translates Yiddish lettering into Russian, the rear side of the cover features student’s pencil drawings, otherwise..... More
![Item #1208 [MINSK GHETTO] Mstiteli getto [i.e. The Avengers of the Ghetto]. H. Smolar](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1208.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617186219)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1947. 128 pp: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some soiling of the spine, otherwise near fine. The Russian edition of wartime memoirs ‘Fun Minsker geto’ by Hersh Smolar who was one of the leading members of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and a...... More
![Item #1271 [JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na dereve [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1271.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632152026)
Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] pp. 24,5x18 cm. One of 1200 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. First and only edition. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954), Jewish..... More
![Item #1206 [A PRAISE TO ‘A WELL-KNOWN JEWISH BOURGEOIS NATIONALIST’] Mikhoels. M. Zagorskiy](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1206.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617184865)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Kinopechat’, 1927. 32 pp.: ill. 17.9x13.3 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. The spine is slightly rubbed. Soviet bookshop stamp on the recto of the rear wrapper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Art-nouveau style wrapper design with Mikhoel’s portrait by the..... More
Moscow: Tip. Der Emes, 1928-1929. 24x18,5 cm. In two 20th-century cloth bindings. Slightly rubbed, a fragment of inner corner of front cover lost (#11 for 1929), a half of back cover lost (#24 for 1929), some pages of 1928 set faded, some pencil notes, otherwise good and clean. Extremely rare..... More
#1-3, 4/5, 6-12, 13/14, 15-18, 19/20, 21, 22/23, 24, 25, 26/27, 28/29, 30/31, 32/33 for 1931. Overall 25 issues. Moscow: TsP OZET: Der Emes, 1931. 25x17,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding, all original covers preserved. Generally very good condition. Soiling of the binding, block weakened, corner fragment of p. 11-11..... More
![Item #1327 [ISRAELI CULTURE IN THE USSR] Albom temunot u-te’udot: ha-Mishlahat...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1327.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642543879)
Tel-Aviv, 1957. [22] leaves: ill., including one folding. 17x23,5 cm. In original cloth with small drawing of flag. Rubbed, small damage of bookworm in front cover and minor wormhole throughout copy. In Hebrew. Photobook relating to the VI World Festival of Youth and Students organized in Moscow. For..... More
![Item #1097 [JEWISH WARTIME EDITION] Tsum zig: literarisher zamlbukh = K pobede: Literaturnyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1097.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604432993)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. 336 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original cardboards with letterpress design. In very good condition, rubbed, stains on covers and on pages occasionally. First and only wartime edition. One of 7000 copies. Text is printed in Yiddish, the table of contents is in Yiddish and Russian..... More
![Item #1096 [LUBOK IN UKRAINIAN] Evrei [i.e. The Jew](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1096.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604432764)
[Ukraine, late 19th c.]. 44х34,5 cm. Steel engraving. Very good, a few tears. Text in simplified Ukrainian. An example of antisemitic anecdote printed for the folk in the form of lubok. The text tells the story of the Jewish seller who came to the nobleman to sell some..... More
![Item #1232 [SPIN-OFF OF CHAGALL DESIGNS IN VITEBSK] Zhurnal Vitebskogo otdeleniia ROSTA [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1232.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617194476)
Vitebsk, 1921. 64 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, tears of spine and front cover, small holes in front cover (text and image aren’t attracted), unclear contemporary stamp on the first page, some soiling of covers. The only issue of this edition. One of 1500..... More
![Item #1005 [THEATRE IN SUPPORT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE] Tak bylo: P’yesa v trekh deystviyakh...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1005.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591804149)
Moscow: Gos. izd-vo, 1930. 72 pp.: ill. 13,6x19,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of the spine, light soiling. Otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. One of 3000 copies. First edition with 2 black-and-white photographs of the scenes from the play. Wrapper design by Mikhail Grigor’yev (1899-1960), a...... More
![Item #949 [THE BOOK INSCRIBED BY THE FOUNDER OF ISRAELI OPERA TO CHALIAPIN] Evreiskiy teatr v...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/949.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614855851)
Odessa: Kinaret, [1920s]. Printed wrappers, the spine is restored. Otherwise very good. A completely unrecorded brochure by the pioneer of Jewish opera inscribed by him to Fyodor Chaliapin on the front wrapper: ‘‘To Fiodor Ivanovich Chaliapin from devoted M. Golinkin’’. Mordekhai Golinkin (1885-1963) is considered the first..... More
![Item #1207 [THE FATE OF JEWISH PEOPLE THROUGH MEER AXELROD’S SKETCHES AND PAINTINGS] Gezang...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1207.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617185540)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1947. 200 pp., 6 ills. 20,5x13,5 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Some stains, otherwise very good and clean. Original Yiddish edition. One of 6000 copies. Very rare. Most likely the copy belonged to Yitzchak (Itzik) Kipnis (1896-1974)..... More
![Item #85 [JEWISH THEATRE IN MOSCOW] Finf yor mlukhisher Idisher kamer-teater [i.e. The Five...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/85.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1450189134)
Moscow: Shul un bukh, 1924. 138 pp., [14] leaves of plates: ill., ports. 21,5x15 cm.1 of 2000 copies. Original illustrated wrapper. The browning of the spine. Otherwise fine. Rare. The first book about the Jewish theatre in Moscow (GOSEKT) that was founded in 1919-1920 by Alexei Granovsky. Significant..... More
![Item #1205 [ANALYSIS OF SOLOMON MIKHOELS’ CREATIVE PATH] Mikhoels: Tvorcheskiy put’ nar....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1205.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617184613)
Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1938. 116 pp., 1 frontispiece: ill. 19,9x13,8 cm. In original cloth binding with lettering on the front board. The spine is slightly rubbed. Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear endpaper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. One of 4,000 copies. This monograph on one..... More
![Item #574 [YIDDISH THEATRE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION] Yidisher teater. 1887-1917 [i.e. Yiddish...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/574.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1547730191)
Moscow: Emes, 1940. 319 pp. 22x15 cm. In original full-cloth binding with colored and blind lettering. In very good condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. In Yiddish. A phenomenon of the Yiddish theatre stood alive in the Russian Empire even if tsarism restricted it in 1883..... More
![Item #1044 [EARLY TRANSLATION OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE] Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid: Drama v 5...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1044.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601474506)
St. Petersburg: V tip. F. Stellovskogo, 1860. 52 pp. 24x15,5 cm. In modern half-leather binding with marbled covers; gilt lettering on the spine. Title page repared, some soiling, otherwise very good. Facsimile of the translator's signature mounted on the front endpaper. First edition. Very rare. One of the..... More
![Item #1209 [THE GREATEST POET OF THE HOLOCAUST] Fun Vilner geto = Vilenskoe Getto [i.e. From...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1209.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617186629)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1946. 256 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Good, covers rubbed and chipped, tear of the spine, stains occasionally. One of 10 000 copies. The laconic design of the book was created by Soviet artist Hersh Inger (1910-1995). In 1926-1930 he studied under Marc Epstein..... More