East European Jews in Two Worlds: Studies from the Yivo Annual Tapa blanda - 1989

Enanston, Northwestern University Press-YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. 1990. Original publishers sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: x, 334pp., 14 contributors, tables, footnotes/bibliographical notes, notes on contributors. Very fine copy.

Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1990. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book containing fourteen articles by different authors on aspects of Jewish history and culture, all originally appearing in the YIVO Annual between the 1940s and the early 1980s. The articles are: ''The Eastern European era in Jewish History'' by Abraham Joshua Heschel, ''Swislocz: Portrait of a Jewish Community in Eastern Europe'' by Abraham Ain, ''A Kheyder in Tyszowce (Tishevits)'' by Yekheil Shtern, ''The Discovery of Mendele Moykher-Sforim and the Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Literature'' by Dan Miron, ''The Struggle of the Vaad Arba Arazot for the Jewish Right of Religious Worship in Breslau in the Seventeenth Century'' by Bernhard Brilling, ''The Jews in the Cities of the Republic of Poland'' by Jacob Lestchinsky, ''The Economic Background of… Leer más