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Title: {ALGEMEYNE ENTSIKLOPEDYE} 1. General section in alphabetical order. Vols. 1-5 (Aleph- Ba`alei Chayim. all publ.) Paris 1934-1937, New York 1944. 2: Systematic section: YIDDN. Vols. 1-7 (all publ.).
Description: Paris / New York, 1940-1966. Large 4to. Internally good. Pictures will be sent upon request. Orig. blue cloth, worn and occasionally damaged. "The most ambitious attempt in Yiddish encylopedias" (Enc. Jud. 6, p. 731). Editor and founder was Raphael Abramowitz (1880-1963), socialist leader and chief spokesman of the second generation of Bund leaders. In 1920 he moved from Russia to Berlin, in 1939 to Paris and in 1940 to New York. The encyclopaedia was published by the Dubnov Foundation and later in the USA by the Central Yiddish Culture Organisation (CYCO). The systematic section on sociology, history and literature of the Jewish people is particularly outstanding in articles on the Yiddish language and literature. The whole work is profusely illustrated and nicely produced. Shunami 29-30.

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