An interesting photo-book illustrating an interesting aspect of Eastern European Jewish life, the resettlement of Jews as agricultural workers and rural tradesmen in "productive" professions.
Call 4125-831-3228 or email to reserve a copy. We ship and bill to libraries and institutions. Individuals are asked to prepay. Polack, Emmanuelle, edited by. "Artisans et paysans du Yiddishland/ The Tradesmen and Farmers of Yiddishland/ Bal-melokhhes un foyerim inem Yidishland, 1921-1938." Paris, ORT France, Somogy Editions D'Art, 2006. Quarto in dust jacket, map, 96 pp., duotone photos throughout. Hardbound. In French, English and Yiddish. Preface by Serge Klarsfeld. Articles are "On Reading Photographic Images," Anne Grynberg and "From Shtetl to Kolkhoz: The Tradesmen and Farmers of Yiddishland (1921-1938)," Emmanuelle Polack. Featuring photos reproduced from original glass plates in the Paris archive of ORT. The images were taken to serve the fund-raising purposes of ORT in the west and the propaganda purposes of the Soviet and Romanian governments. Nevertheless, they are a rare source of images of rural Jewish life in those places and that time. (56877) $18.00 Postpaid within the US. Additional elsewhere. END Henry Hollander, Bookseller 843 Twenty-Fourth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 tel 415-831-3228 http://www.hollanderbooks.com http://hollanderbooks.blogger.com boyc...@hollanderbooks.com --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
