Auction 80
Fine Judaica: * A Singular Collection of Important Hebrew Manuscripts. * Printed Books: Exceptional Offering from Two Notable Collections. * The Yosef Goldman Collection of American-Judaica.
Mar 28, 2019
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Group of 12 pamphlets pertaining to Birobidzhan and the life of the colonists in the Jewish Autonomous Republic of the Soviet Far East.
All in Yiddish. Some with maps and photographs. Together, twelve works bound in one volume. Includes: * A. Perlman. Birobidzhan [description of a visit July-August 1934]. Warsaw, 1934. * S. Diamondshtein. The Jewish Autonomous Territory - A Child of the October Revolution. Moscow, 1934. * D. Zalbefert. Birobidzhan [an anthology]. Vilna, 1935.
Variously browned. Library boards, few with original printed and illustrated wrappers. 8vo.
Moscow, Vilna, Warsaw, New York: 1930-40
In 1928, the Soviet Union endorsed the formation of a Jewish Autonomous Republic in the Birobidzhan region of the Soviet Far East. The Jewish colonization of the Birobidzhan region constituted an ideological alternative to the Zionist ideal. Yiddish was the territory’s official language.
