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Landau, Adolf Efimovich (Aharon Khaimovich), editor : VOSKHOD: ZHURNAL UCHENO-LITERATURNYI I POLITICHESKII. VOL III, JAN-DEC. 1883, WITH TEN SUPPLEMENTS [AS PUBLISHED?] [COMPLETE FOR VOL III 1883]

St.Peterburg : Tip.-lit. A.E. Landau [The Editor], 1883

1st edition. Period boards with original wrappers bound in; First issue in period paper binding, 8vo. 242, [74], 16, 39, 138, [50], 154, [42], 279, [51], 262, 61, 130, [46], 134, [62], 247, 146 pages [2173 pages total]. In Russian. Bound in two cloth and board volumes and one single-issue paper binding, each of the three volumes bearing the pre-war stamp of a Jewish organization in Germany and bookplate of “Jewish Cultural Reconstruction,” a New York based umbrella organization that served as a trusteeship for the Jewish people in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. This organization distributed heirless and unidentifiable cultural materials to scholarly institutions in the United States, Israel, Europe and Latin America, indicating that these volumes survived the Holocaust in Europe and were then re-distributed after the war. Voskhod was a monthly magazine dedicated to the interests of Jews, published without prior censorship in the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, first as a monthly from January 1881 to Dec 1899 and then as a weekly from Jan 1900 to April 1906. “The magazine was a product of the Haskalah movement” (Wikipedia).“The founder of the Voskhod magazine was Adolf Efimovich (Aharon Khaimovich) Landau, who had previously published the Jewish Library almanac. The magazine also published a newspaper, first called ‘The Weekly Chronicle of the Sunrise’, and later simply ‘Voskhod’ (published from 1882 to July 1906). Some of the readers were former subscribers of the magazine ‘Jewish Notes’, who were recommended by the editor-in-chief of the latter before stopping the publication due to financial difficulties. In the second half of the 1890s, the actual editing passed from Landau to Ph.D. Semyon Osipovich Gruzenberg (until the summer of 1899).The program of AE Landau, who chose the motto ‘Progress outside and inside Jewry’ for the periodical, was: ‘a firm, free word to fight against all external and internal obstacles that hinder the correct development of Russian Jewry’; from the very first issue of Voskhod, he began to denounce the internal backwardness of the Jews, urging them to spiritual emancipation and to broad enlightenment; on the other hand, Voskhod fought just as vigorously against legal restrictions and harassment, despite extremely unfavorable external conditions.When Voskhod was founded, there were two more Russian-Jewish press organs, but from 1884 on Voskhod remained the only one and soon gained immense popularity among Jews in Russia. His direction created many enemies for him: he was attacked by the Jewish body ‘Hameliz’ for denouncing the dark phenomena of traditional Jewry, as well as by the followers of the Palestinian idea. Seeing the solution of the Jewish question only in progress and the achievement of equality in Russia, ‘Voskhod’ was negative about the idea of ??colonizing Palestine, and when in the 1880s. emigration from Russia increased,’Voskhod’ spoke out in favor of emigration not to Palestine, but to America. However, the magazine also gave space to some articles explaining the Palestinian idea (Lilienbluma et al.), And ‘never ceased to sympathize with those who had already migrated to Palestine.’” (Wikipe, translated from Russian) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Russia -- Periodicals. OCLC: 30634880. OCLC lists 6 possible holdings for this volume (Yale, Brandeis, Harvard, Penn, YIVO, Spertus), though these holdings may well be incomplete and not include issues for 1883. Single paperbound volume for Jan/Feb has the incorrect title page from an earlier volume, which has been corrected in pen for the current issue. It shows some wear to outer binding and some foxing internally, but is overall solid and nice. Hardbound volumes include a few minimal institutional markings, with excellent bright white paper, including original wrappers and text, in Very Good Condition. Important and Scarce “survivor” set for 1883. (EE-7-1)

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