This interesting book of English translations of the great Hebrew Poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik was published in London in 1924. Chaim Nachman Bialik was born in Radi, in the Russian Empire in 1873. He wrote mainly in Hebrew and also in Yiddish, and is regarded as Israel's national poet. He was brought up in Zhytomyr … Continue reading Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poems from the Hebrew, edited by L. V. Snowman with an introduction by Vladimir Jabotinsky, London 1924.
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In Kampf Farn Land (In the fight for a country, diary of a Jewish Legionnaire), Louis Nirenstein, London 1928.
This book - in Yiddish - tells the story of a Jewish soldier who fought in a Jewish Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers of the British Army in World War I. Louis (Yehuda Leib) Nirenstein was born in the village of Pyesk, in the Grodno district of Byelorussia. He emigrated to the United States in … Continue reading In Kampf Farn Land (In the fight for a country, diary of a Jewish Legionnaire), Louis Nirenstein, London 1928.
The British Jewry Book of Honour, Rev. Michael Adler, London, 1922
I found my copy of this remarkable book in a Tel Aviv second-hand book shop about 40 years ago - one of my first acquisitions of Anglo-Judaica. There is another copy in a glass case in the Jewish Museum in London. The British Jewry Book of Honour was edited by Reverend Michael Adler, who was … Continue reading The British Jewry Book of Honour, Rev. Michael Adler, London, 1922