SHTET UN SHTETLEKH IN UKRAYINE UN IN ANDERE TEYLN FUN RUSLAND : FORSHUNGEN IN YIDISHER GESHIKHTE UN YIDISHN LEBNSSHTEYGER (VOLUME ONE ONLY OF TWO)

New York; Aroysgegebn Fun M., 1948. Hardback. (FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 306, [7]pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Added title page in English: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. This excellent bibliography and history was compiled by Mendel Osherowitch (1888-1965) , "the Yiddish journalist, novelist and historian, was born in Trostyanetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, which was then part of Galicia, in January 1888. He came to New York City in 1910 after a short stay in Palestine and immediately began writing for various Yiddish periodicals, including Yidisher Kemfer, Zukunft and Freie Arbeiter Stimme. He joined the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1914 as a feature writer and later worked as the city editor for ten years, as the Sunday editor, and as a staff writer on Russian affairs, a position which he held until his retirement from the Forward in January of 1965. ... Osherowitch was the Chairman of the Committee to Protect the Jews in the Ukraine, which was renamed the Association to Perpetuate the Memory of the Ukrainian Jews after World War II. He edited and contributed to the two volume ‘Jews in the Ukraine' [published 1961-1967], a proposed three-volume work sponsored by the committee of which only two volumes were ever published. " (YIVO) . Subjects: Jews - Soviet Union - History. Jews - Ukraine - History. Ukraine - Ethnic relations. Soviet Union - Ethnic relations. Ex-library markings. Very minimal staining. Slight toning. Very good + condition. (YIZ-13-11A).