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Lot #
17865
Auction End Date
4/24/2007 12:03:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
History of the Jews
Title (Hebrew)
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Author
[First Ed.] Peter Wiernik
City
New York
Publisher
B. Rabinowitz
Publication Date
1901
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition. [4], IV, 381, [3 ads] pp., 201:142 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
Detailed
Description
History of the Jews in Yiddish by Peter Wiernik (1865–1936), U. S. Yiddish journalist. Wiernik was born in Vilna, but emigrated to the U.S. in 1885 and settled in Chicago, where he wrote for the Yiddish Chicago Daily Courier. From 1901 to 1936 he was editor for New York's most important Yiddish daily, the Jewish Morning Journal. His editorials, possessed of intelligence, good taste and tolerance, advocated a fusion of modern Orthodoxy and Americanism, and evinced a coolness to political Zionism and hostility to socialism. In addition to Yiddish, he also wrote in Hebrew and English, and was for a time editor of the Amerikaner. Besides the editorials, Wiernik's most important work was his History of the Jews in America (1912; 1931, reprinted 1972). His Yiddish autobiography, written in 1934, appeared weekly in the Morning Journal, Sept. 2–Dec. 23, 1951. He was also active in communal matters and was a member of the executive of the Joint Distribution Committee.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Subject
History:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
Yiddish
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
