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(Xt) : KONSTITUTSIE (GRUNT-GEZETS) : FUNEM FARBAND SOVETISHE SOTSIALISTISHE REPUBLIKN

Riga: Izdvnieciba “kamf”, 1940

Original Orange printed paper wrappers, showing distinctive elements of both modern and traditional typeface. 8vo, 24 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Rare 1940 Riga edition of the 1936 Soviet constitution, certainly one of the last Yiddish publications in Latvia; OCLC-Worldcat literally lists not a single Yiddish publication from Riga 1941-1987. “Immediately after the establishment of German authority [in Latvia] in the beginning of July 1941, the elimination of the Jewish and Roma population began, with major mass killings taking place at Rumbula and elsewhere. The killings were committed by the Einsatzgruppe A, and the Wehrmacht. Latvian collaborators, including the 500–1, 500 members of the Arajs Commando (which alone killed around 26, 000 Jews]) and other Latvian members of the SD, were also involved. 30, 000 Jews were shot in the autumn of 1941 with most of the remaining Jewish people being rounded up and put into ghettos. In November and December 1941 the Riga Ghetto became crowded and to make room for the imminent arrival of German Jews, who were being shipped out of the country, all the remaining 30, 000 Jews in Riga were taken from the ghetto to the nearby Rumbula Forest and shot” (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Soviet Union. Konstitutsiia (1936) -- Politics and government. OCLC lists only 1 copy anywhere (Harvard) . Only the lightest wear to wrappers, an amazingly well-preseverd copy of this exceedingly rare Yiddish imprint. (yid-26-6)

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