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Jewish Socialist Federation Of America : IDISHE YOHRBUKH; 1915

Nyu York; Idisher Sotsyalistisher Federatsye In Amerika, 1915

Original Wraps. 8vo. 151, [9] pages. 23 cm. Annual periodical, established 1914, and published until at least 1918, of the Yiddish Yearbook for the Jewish Socialist Federation in America; the Yiddish branch of the American socialist party. Other titles of the periodical include: Idisher yohr bukh; Yohr bukh dos naye land. The lead article is a non-sectarian biography with photographs of leading socialist thinkers of the past two centuries, including Robert Owen, Gracchus Babeuf, Herzin, Louis Blanc, Blanqui, August Bebel, Joseph Dietzgin, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Moses Hess, Jean Jaures, Emile Vandervelde, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Peter Lavrov, Friedrich Lasalle, Paul Lafargue, Liebknecht, Karl Marx, Saint-Simon, Engels, Plekhanov, Fourier, Proudhon, Kautsky, and Kropotkin. The following lead article is by Morris Winchevsky commemorating 25 years of socialist Yiddish organizations, Salutski on the Jewish workers movement in 1914, a Robert Ingersoll article on atheism, and other historical, political, and theoretical articles detailing Jewish American Socialism by Morris Hillquit, Moishe Katz, and others. With a detailed ‘freedom (freiheit) calender’, listing important dates and events past and present, and nine pages of back page advertisements for the Forverts, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and pro-socialist bookstores and publishers. Subjects: Socialism - Periodicals. Jews - New York (N. Y. ) - Periodicals. Jewish Socialist Federation of America –Yiddish –Yearbook. OCLC lists 11 copies, but some do not include this volume. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-19-85)

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