![JEWISH BEZBOZHNIK] Der Apikoyres: Organ fun Ts. R. funem Farband krigerishe apikorsim [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/1223.jpg?v=1617190470)
Moscow: Der Farband, 1932. 20 pp.: ill. 31x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers detached from the text block, tears of spine, small pieces of paper glued to the first and last pages, otherwise very good. One of 4000 copies. In Yiddish. Very rare. An issue of the first..... More
![LUBOK IN UKRAINIAN] Evrei [i.e. The Jew](/pictures/thumb/1096.jpg?v=1604432765)
[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
![WHAT WAS PUBLISHED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE DURING NEP] Katalag #5 [i.e. Catalogue #5](/pictures/thumb/555.jpg?v=1547033195)
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
![JEWISH FILM SCRIPT] Bluzhdaiushchie zvezdy: Kinostsenarii [i.e. Wandering Stars: Film Script]. I....](/pictures/thumb/1300.jpg?v=1634127509)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 80 pp.: ill. 22x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Significantly restored, otherwise very good and clean copy. First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Scarce. A screenplay adaptation of a novel ‘Wandering Stars’ by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem that was produced at the VUFKU..... More
![LISSITZKY’S EXPERIMENTS WITH HEBREW ALPHABET] המלך שלמה [i.e. King Solomon. The Poem]...](/pictures/thumb/1224.jpg?v=1617190686)
Moscow: Omonus, 1917. Pp. 1-15. The single issue of the children’s periodical in Yiddish. Original illustrated wrapper is preserved under a modern binding. Pre-1941 stamps of zionistic society. Small holes throughout the block have been carefully restored. Extremely rare issue of the important Yiddish periodical, printed two days before..... More
![THEATRE IN SUPPORT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE] Tak bylo: P’yesa v trekh deystviyakh [i.e. So It Was:...](/pictures/thumb/1005.jpg?v=1591804150)
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
![GEOGRAPHY IN YIDDISH] Geografiya chastey sveta i vazhneyshikh stran (krome SSSR) [i.e. Geography...](/pictures/thumb/1133.jpg?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
![ANALYSIS OF SOLOMON MIKHOELS’ CREATIVE PATH] Mikhoels: Tvorcheskiy put’ nar. artista RSFSR...](/pictures/thumb/1205.jpg?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
![EARLY TRANSLATION OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE] Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid: Drama v 5 deistviiakh...](/pictures/thumb/1044.jpg?v=1601474507)
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
![WARTIME EDITION OF SONG OF THE SONGS] Pesn’ pesnei [i.e. The Song of the Songs] / with...](/pictures/thumb/1211.jpg?v=1617187110)
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
![THE LAST NOVEL BY SHOLEM ALEICHEM IN KULTUR-LIGE] Motl Peysi dem khazns (ksovim fun a yingl a...](/pictures/thumb/1230.jpg?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
![MINSK GHETTO] Mstiteli getto [i.e. The Avengers of the Ghetto]. H. Smolar](/pictures/thumb/1208.jpg?v=1617186220)
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
![THE GREATEST POET OF THE HOLOCAUST] Fun Vilner geto = Vilenskoe Getto [i.e. From Vilnius Ghetto]....](/pictures/thumb/1209.jpg?v=1617186630)
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
![JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na dereve [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E. Gollerbakh....](/pictures/thumb/1271.jpg?v=1632152027)
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
![A PRAISE TO ‘A WELL-KNOWN JEWISH BOURGEOIS NATIONALIST’] Mikhoels. M. Zagorskiy](/pictures/thumb/1206.jpg?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