East European Jews in Two Worlds: Studies from the YIVO Annual

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 Jewish Emigration from Galicia to the United States'' by Raphael Mahler, ''Jewish and Non-Jewish Criminality in Poland 1932-1037'' by Liebman Hersch, ''Religious, Educational and Cultural Problems in the Eastern European Ghettoes under German Occupation'' by Isaiah Trunk, ''Was There an 'Other Germany' During the Nazi Period?'' by Philip Friedman, ''The Bearing of Emancipation on Jewish Survival'' by Horace M Kallen, ''The Russian Roots of the American Jewish Labour Movement'' by Ezra Mendelsohn, ''Jewish Social Conditions as Seen by the Muckrakers'' by Rudolf Glanz, and ''Un-American America and the 'Jewish Daily Forward' '' by Tamara K Hareven. 334pp.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.