SHRIFTN FAR EKONOMIK UN STATISTIK [ERSHTER BAND]

Berlin; Varshe; Farlag Kultur-Lige, 1928. Hardcover. Original Cloth. 4to. 262, 34 pages. 32 cm. First edition. In Yiddish, with added German title page and abstracts. Black cloth and purple endpages as issued by publisher. Schriften fur Wirtschaft und Statistik, Band 1. Published by the Ekonomish-statistishe sektsye [Economic-Statistical Section] of the Yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut. Contains articles by J. Lestschinsky, E. Ringelblum, J Shatzky, J. Joffe, S. Dubnow and others. Articles on demographics in Riga, Poland, etc. Articles on mortality rates, criminality rates, pogroms in Ukraine 1918-1921, artisans, industrialists, factory workers, credit and finance, etc. Hundreds of charts and graphs. Edited by Jacob Lestschinsky (1876-1966) "historian and sociologist; specialist in Jewish demography and economic history ... one of the founding members of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and participated in the inaugural meeting of its Historical Section in Berlin on 31 October 1925. Lestschinsky edited Bleter far yidisher demografye, statistik, un ekonomik, which appeared in Berlin from 1923 until 1925. He laid the groundwork for the Economic-Statistical Section of YIVO, which he headed from its inception in 1926, and edited its publications Ekonomishe shriftn and Yidishe ekonomik. " - YIVO Encyclopedia. Bound in black cloth over boards; gilt title on cloth, gilt title on red leather pastedown on backstrip, purple endpapers. Subjects: Jews - Economic conditions - Periodicals. Jews - Statistics - Periodicals. YIVO - Berlin Branch. YIVO - Ekonomish-statistishe sektsye - Economic-Statistical Section - Periodicals. Jews. Jews - Economic conditions. Periodicals. Statistics. Binding repaired; institutional stamps on endpages; otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (YID-21-17).