DIE JUDENSTADT VON LUBLIN

Berlin; Jüdischer Verlag, 1919. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 4to. 112 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. ‘The Jewish City of Lublin'. With 60 illustrations. Monograph of Lublin's Jewish history by Majer Balaban (1877-1942) , "historian and educator. Majer Balaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic responsa. ... Balaban completed his dissertation in 1904, on Jews in Lwów at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Zydzi lwowscy na przelomie XVIgo I XVIIgo wieku; 1906) . Thereafter he taught in secondary schools until the outbreak of World War I, when he served as a military chaplain in the Austrian army. While stationed in Lublin, he took advantage of the opportunity to prepare a short monograph on the history of Jews in that community. " (YIVO Encyclopedia) . "His book on the Jews of Lublin, Die Judenstadt von Lublin (Berlin, 1919) , is a vivid survey of history of the Jews in that city. " (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Jews - Poland. Lublin (Poland) . Poland; social history under capitalism, before 1945; social conditions; social groups; (movements of) national minorities; Jews. Binding repaired; light soiling to cloth, pages aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-31).