Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

"Undzer Vort!" – Collection of Issues of the Organ of Poalei Zion in Switzerland, June 1944 – September 1945 – She'erit Hapletah

Opening: $150
Sold for: $225
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Nine issues (in eight booklets) of the organ of Poalei Zion in Switzerland – "Undzer Vort!" [Our Word!], Switzerland, June 1944 to September 1945. Yiddish.
Nine issues (mimeographed typescript): unnumbered issue (June 1944), issue no. 9 (August 1944), issue no. 12 (November 1944; two copies), unnumbered issue (November 1944), issue no. 13-14 (December 1944-January 1945), issue no. 15 (September 1945), and issue no. 16 (September 1945).
The issues contain preliminary reports about the destruction of European Jewry, about life in the ghettoes and concentration camps and about the fate of She'erit Hapletah (even before the end of World War II). In addition, the issues contain articles and notes on the institutions of the Zionist movement, on the struggle of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine and on additional issues. Among the articles: "On the Threshold of Liberation", "From the Nazi Hell, the Destruction of the Lodz Ghetto", "The Destruction of Bessarabian Jewry", "The Bitter Fate of the Jews of Hungary", "The Jewish Congress in Russia Sends a Letter to Stalin", "The Grand Celebration of May 1 in Palestine", "The Road to Jewish Socialist Government – Palestine. The Speech of the Member [Moshe] Aram at the 51st Session of the Histadrut", "Jewish Fascism", "The Jewish Problem after the War, Personal and Social Reference", and more.
The title page of issue no. 13-14 features an illustrated portrait of Dov Ber Borochov (the issue was published towards the 27th anniversary of his death).
Enclosed: a leaf from an additional issue, from March 1945.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. Closed and open tears to several leaves. Detached leaves. One issue missing a leaf (possibly, additional leaves are missing from other issues).
The Dreyfus Affair, Antisemitism, Holocaust and Sheerit HaPletah
The Dreyfus Affair, Antisemitism, Holocaust and Sheerit HaPletah