Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
The Jewish Community of Bialystok between the Two World Wars – The First Decade Issue of the Jewish Journal "Dos Neye Lebn", Almanac of 1931 and Two Booklets marking the Jubilee of Jewish Organizations – with Numerous Pictures and Illustrated Title Pages
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A volume with four booklets documenting the culture, religion, welfare and economics of the Jewish community in Bialystok between the two World Wars – the 10th anniversary issue of the Jewish journal "Dos Neye Lebn", almanac of 1931 and two booklets marking the Jubilee of Jewish organizations, with numerous pictures and illustrated title pages.
1. Dos Naye Lebn, Yubiley-Numer No. 3000, Tzen Yar 1919-1929 [The New Life, Jubilee Issue no. 3000, ten years 1919-1929]. Editor: Pesach Kaplan. Bialystok: Aharon Albek, April 1929. The title page illustration is signed in the plate: "Ben-Zion Rabinowitz" (Benn).
The Jewish journal "Dos Naye Lebn" was published in Bialystok during the years 1919-1931. Its editor, Pesach Kaplan (1870-1943) was an author, translator, journalist and active member of the Zionist Movement. During the Holocaust, he was a member of the Judenrat of the Bialystok Ghetto, writing two diaries describing life in the ghetto – "The Bialystok Judenrat" and "The Deportation of Bialystok". He perished in the ghetto in 1943.
72 pp.
2. Byalistoker almanakh: far ekonomishe gezelshaftlakhe un kultur-inyanim, mit a kalendar oyfn yor 1931 [Bialystok Almanac, for Economic, Social and Cultural Affairs, with a calendar for 1931], editor: Pesach Kaplan. Bialystok: Dos Naye Lebn, 1931. Lithographic title page illustration signed "H. Pokhochevsky" (Yiddish).
432 columns.
3. Unzer yoyvl, 50-yor linas-tzedek in Bialystok [Our Jubilee, 50th Anniversary of the Linat Tzedek (help society) in Bialystok], 1885-1935. Editor: Moshe Schwif. Bialystok: Technograf Press, [1935].
26 pp.
4. Yoyvl-heft, tsu der 25 yoriger ekzistents fun der industri un handel-bank in Bialystok [Jubilee-booklet, marking the 25th anniversary of the Bialystok Industrial and Commercial Bank], 1910-1935. Editor: Moshe Wissotzky. Bialystok, [1935].
15, [1] pp.
All four booklets are bound together (with their original covers). Volume 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Blemishes and small tears to edges. Ownership stamps to several pages. The binding is blemished, torn and detached.
1. Dos Naye Lebn, Yubiley-Numer No. 3000, Tzen Yar 1919-1929 [The New Life, Jubilee Issue no. 3000, ten years 1919-1929]. Editor: Pesach Kaplan. Bialystok: Aharon Albek, April 1929. The title page illustration is signed in the plate: "Ben-Zion Rabinowitz" (Benn).
The Jewish journal "Dos Naye Lebn" was published in Bialystok during the years 1919-1931. Its editor, Pesach Kaplan (1870-1943) was an author, translator, journalist and active member of the Zionist Movement. During the Holocaust, he was a member of the Judenrat of the Bialystok Ghetto, writing two diaries describing life in the ghetto – "The Bialystok Judenrat" and "The Deportation of Bialystok". He perished in the ghetto in 1943.
72 pp.
2. Byalistoker almanakh: far ekonomishe gezelshaftlakhe un kultur-inyanim, mit a kalendar oyfn yor 1931 [Bialystok Almanac, for Economic, Social and Cultural Affairs, with a calendar for 1931], editor: Pesach Kaplan. Bialystok: Dos Naye Lebn, 1931. Lithographic title page illustration signed "H. Pokhochevsky" (Yiddish).
432 columns.
3. Unzer yoyvl, 50-yor linas-tzedek in Bialystok [Our Jubilee, 50th Anniversary of the Linat Tzedek (help society) in Bialystok], 1885-1935. Editor: Moshe Schwif. Bialystok: Technograf Press, [1935].
26 pp.
4. Yoyvl-heft, tsu der 25 yoriger ekzistents fun der industri un handel-bank in Bialystok [Jubilee-booklet, marking the 25th anniversary of the Bialystok Industrial and Commercial Bank], 1910-1935. Editor: Moshe Wissotzky. Bialystok, [1935].
15, [1] pp.
All four booklets are bound together (with their original covers). Volume 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Blemishes and small tears to edges. Ownership stamps to several pages. The binding is blemished, torn and detached.
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