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(YIDDISH). Arabish Verterbichel, mit Geshprechen, mit dem Originelen Arabishen Alef-Beis in Zeyne Fier Geshtalten [Arabic WordBooks]. Text in Yiddish. pp. 23, (5). Brittle, ex-library. Contemporary boards with original printed wrappers bound in, worn. 12mo. Warsaw: Altneuland 1920 Apparently for use by Yiddish-speaking Jews immigrating to Palestine in order to facilitate conversation with the native Arab-speaking Palestinians. As a Yiddish - Arabic text, the work is not the first of its kind. Getzl Zelikovitz published in New York a popular 32-page Arabic handBooks two years earlier, and with the same purpose (see https://blogs.princeton.edu/rareBooks/2010/06/teach-yourself-arabic-in-yi/). The author of the present work mentions Zelikovitz in a footnote to the preface, noting that, having been published in America, it is inaccessible to European Jewry, and moreover, it teaches an antiquated form of Arabic. Apparently for use by Yiddish-speaking Jews immigrating to Palestine in order to facilitate conversation with the native Arab-speaking Palestinians. As a Yiddish - Arabic text, the work is not the first of its kind. Getzl Zelikovitz published in New York a popular 32-page Arabic handBooks two years earlier, and with the same purpose (see https://blogs.princeton.edu/rareBooks/2010/06/teach-yourself-arabic-in-yi/). The author of the present work mentions Zelikovitz in a footnote to the preface, noting that, having been published in America, it is inaccessible to European Jewry, and moreover, it teaches an antiquated form of Arabic.