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Harkavy, Alexander [Aleksander Harkavi] : DER SITIZEN: VEGVAYZER FAR DI VOS VILEN VEREN BIRGER FUN DI FAREYNIGTE SHTATEN. THE CITIZEN. A GUIDE TO NATURALIZATION

New York: Hebrew Pub. Co.,19221st edition with this exact title. Original Printers printed wrappers, 16mo (pocket sized), 63 pages. 14 cm. In Yiddish. The Yiddish title translates as, "The Citizen: A Guide for Those Wishing to Become Citizens of the United States." This booklet is designed to inform Yiddish speakers about the United States naturalization process and exams and to aid in preparation for the citizenship exam. The book is read from right to left, as is Yiddish and Hebrew. All English text is also offered in Yiddish translation. In addition to information about the process, questions that might occur on the exam are listed on pages with three columns. Each of these questions is in English in the left column, transliterated using Hebrew characters in the center column, and translated into Yiddish in the right-hand column. Harkavy (1863–1939) was a leading Yiddish lexicographer. The “grandson of the rabbi of Novogrodek (Yid. Navaredok), Harkavy was born in that Belorussian town….After the pogroms of 1881 Harkavy moved to Warsaw and joined the Am Olam movement, before immigrating to the United States….He was in Paris in 1885, returned to New York in 1886, [and] taught Hebrew at a talmud torah in Montreal in 1887, where he published the first Yiddish newspaper (Di Tsayt), went to Baltimore in 1889 and there founded the short-lived periodical Der Yidisher Progres, before returning once more to New York in 1890. A year later his first popular textbook, Der Englisher Lerer (‘The English Teacher’), was published, of which almost 100,000 copies were sold. Through this and other books in the 'English self-taught' genre, such as his guide to writing letters, Der Englisher Brivnshteler ('The English Letter-Writer,' 1892), Yiddish translations of classics, classroom lectures and popular expositions of American history and culture, New York Yiddish literary anthologies (Der Nayer Gayst, 'The New Spirit,' 1897–98; Der Tsvantsikster Yorhundert, 'The Twentieth Century,' 1900), and above all his Yiddish dictionaries, he became the teacher par excellence of two generations of immigrants. ….He taught U.S. history and politics for the New York Board of Education and Yiddish literature and grammar at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary in New York, while also lecturing for the Workmen's Circle….His English-Yiddish and Yiddish-English dictionaries, encompassing about 40,000 Yiddish words, went through two dozen editions and reprints. His crowning work was the Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary (1925; suppl. 1928; fifth reprint 1988), which played a significant role in educating East European Jewish immigrants in English and is still an outstanding example of a multilingual dictionary used by Yiddish speakers and lexicographers.(Mordkhe Schaechter and Jean Baumgarten in EJ). For more on Harkavy, see I. Shatzky, Harkavis bio-bibliografye (1933); and A. Harkavy, Yidish-Eynglish-Hebreisher Verterbukh, ed. with introd. by D. Katz (1988). Not to be confused with Isidore Schwartz’ bilingual Yiddish-English booklet of the same name. SUBJECT(S): Naturalization -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Citizenship --Document Type:BookEntry:19990326Update:20220407Accession No:OCLC: 122887592. OCLC lists 8 institutions holding copies of all variant editions worldwide (YU, NYBC, Gratz, YIVO, Heinz Hist Ctr, UIowa, JTSA, BPL). Spine and Yiddish cover heavily edgeworn with loss of 2 letters. English cover has some corner wear, Internally clean and strong. Good Condition Thus. (YID-42-24A-L-’ex)

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