Wilno, First Edition (10 results)

1st ed. - Translated from the Lithuanian. - Hardcover.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. Dos du livre legerement defraichi. L'interieur du livre a l'etat de neuf. NA10819, PC9-1, 9782356875105.

Condition: Muy Bueno. 11,5 x 20,5 cm. 100 pp.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 512 pages, 25, 7 black & white halftones, 13 maps, 4 black & white line drawings, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1028. . 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: Ceramic Animals; Wilno Furniture - from Renfrew County, Ontario; Renfrew County and the Polish Settlement; Holwood - a family home on Queen's Park Crescent; The Simcoe Colours - Historic Flags; Lomax Lamps; Victorian Art Tiles; Wildlife Art; The Child's World of the Nineteenth Century; Mechanical Music; A Canadian Picture Frame; and more. Modest wear. Nice clean copy.

Gr.8°, Obr. 1. Aufl. mit einer Karte, 46 Seiten, Einband etwas berieben, ansonst guter und sauberer Zustand, polnisch-mit deutscher Zusammenfassung pl Gewicht in Gramm: 170.

Gr.8°, Obr. 1. Aufl. mit einer Karte, 26 Seiten, Einband etwas berieben, ansonst guter und sauberer Zustand, polnisch-mit deutscher Zusammenfassung pl Gewicht in Gramm: 140.

Softcover. Condition: vg. First edition. 8vo. IV, 172 pp. Original paper wrappers with title in Yiddish on front cover, title in Hungarian and English on back cover. The Yiddish Scientific Institute, commonly known as YIVO, is the world's foremost authority on orthography, lexicography and all matters related to the Yiddish language. This is a first edition of the proceedings of the Yivo conference in Vilna in 1929. Text in Yiddish with an English summary. Browning to wrappers and pages due to age, otherwise book is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Yiddish. 342 pages. Original illustrated red boards Toucing inscription by author to H.L Srebnik, signed and dated 15 / XI/ 48 om Boston. Tragically Kaczerginski died at age 46 in an airplane crash in South America. Kaczerginski (1908-1954) was a "Yiddish writer and cultural activist. Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city's Talmud Torah, Shmerke (Pol., Szmerke) Kaczerginski lost both his parents during World War I. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term. In the 1930s, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote short stories with a radical bent and was a correspondent and reporter for literary publications, including the semilegal leftist press in Poland and the New York Communist daily Morgn-frayhayt. Kaczerginski played a key role in shaping the writers' and artists' group Yung-Vilne; he organized its evening events and was the de facto publisher of its three miscellanies between 1934 and 1936. During the period of Soviet control over Lithuania in 1940-1941, he was even more active in the field of Yiddish culture, but at the same time experienced his first disappointments with the attitude of the Soviet regime toward Jewish culture. During the first period of Nazi occupation, Kaczerginski wandered through villages and towns posing as a deaf mute; after many difficulties, he ended up in the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski was very involved in the ghetto's cultural activities. As a leader of its youth club, he wrote its Yugnt-himen (Youth Hymn), a song that immediately became popular. In 1943, he wrote the song "Shtiler, shtiler" in memory of the mass murders committed at Ponar. Set to music that Aleksander Volkoviski (later known as Aleksander Tamir) had submitted to a contest organized by the ghetto, the song was first heard at an evening performance there and over the years became one of the best-known songs of the Holocaust. With Avrom Sutzkever and others, Kaczerginski became part of a group of forced laborers whom the Germans designated to sort Jewish cultural treasures at YIVO and other locations. Known as the Papir-brigade (Paper Brigade), the group's members risked their lives to hide the most significant items, smuggling them back into the ghetto or entrusting them to non-Jewish acquaintances. Kaczerginski was a member of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisans Organization; FPO), and, since YIVO's building was located outside the ghetto walls, he took part in smuggling weapons into the ghetto. In September 1943, Kaczerginski, along with Avrom and Freydke Sutzkever and other members of the FPO, escaped from the Vilna ghetto as part of an organized group of fighters just before its liquidation. They joined a Soviet partisan unit in the Naroch Forests, where Kaczerginski fought as a partisan until liberation in July 1944. Kaczerginski's books describe the destruction of Vilna, the partisan struggle, and his own experiences during the Holocaust period: Khurbn Vilne (The Destruction of Vilna; 1947), Partizaner geyen (Partisans on the Move; 1947), and Ikh bin geven a partizan (I Was a Partisan; 1952)" (YIVO, 2010). On title page verso: "Destruction of Jewish Vilna, Khurbn Vilne / Sh. Kaczerginski. New York, N.Y. : United Vilner Relief Committee, 1947.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Warsaw: F. Hoesicki and J. Zawadzki in Vilnius, 1922. 8vo. Contemporary linen-backed cloth-covered boards, illustrated front wrapper bound in; pp. 72, [4, advertisements] 32 photogravure plates on 16 leaves, printed on both sides, photographic frontispiece on verso of half-title, illustration after a photo pasted in at the end as tailpiece; shelfmark stamped in black on spine and in ink at foot of half-title; otherwise a very good copy.First edition, very rare. This pictorial record of and essay on Vilnius was published when the city was under Polish administration. The master photographer of Poland of the first half of the 20th century was Jan Bulhak. In 1912 he opened his own studio in Vilnius and lectured at the University where he soon became head of the Institute of Photography in the department of fine arts (1919 - 1939). In 1927, he helped to found the Wilno Photo-Club as well as the Polish Photo-Club in 1929, of which he was also chairman. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War he presented his entire collection to the Polish State and during a German bombardment about 30,000 negatives were destroyed. The author Henryk Moscicki was a professor for modern Polish and Eastern European History, with a focus on Polish-Lithuanian relations in the 19th century.