Buy this book on-line Glanz, Rudolf : THE JEWS IN AMERICAN ALASKA (1867-1880)New York : Published By The Author., 1953.
1st edition. Original printed gray wrappers, 8vo; 46 pages. "After the United States purchased the Alaskan Territory from Russia in 1867, some San Francisco Jewish miners, merchants, fur dealers, and traders moved up to Alaska. At the formal transfer of sovereignty in Sitka, Jewish soldier Benjamin Levi (Levy) lowered the Russian flag and raised that of the United States. The following year, two Jews from San Francisco, Louis Sloss and Lewis Gerstle, helped found the Alaska Commercial Company" (Wikipedia). Somewhat scarce self-published booklet on this key 14-year period in Alaska Jewish history. Rudolf Glanz was a historian, philologist, lecturer, archivist, and lawyer. He obtained a doctoral degree in law at the University of Vienna in 1918 and founded the YIVO Circle of Western Jewish Scholars in Vienna; He was also a visiting lecturer in YIVO's training division in Vilna and rom 1938 to 1954 was a research associate at YIVO in New York. Glanz authored many books on Jewish history as well as numerous monographs on folklore and Jewish history in YIVO publications such as the YIVO bleter and in other Yiddish periodicals including Yidisher kemfer (New York) and Filologishe shriftn (Vilna). Glanz specialized in Jewish emigration from Germany and Eastern Europe. Some of the topics about which he published included the Jewish lower classes and their slang; group relations between Jews and other ethnic groups; and the history of the Jews in the Far West. He was a ong-standing member of the Poalei-Zion (Labor Zionist) movement and was archivist at the Labor Zionist Archives. SUBJECT(S):Jews -- Alaska. Juifs -- Commerce. Emigration and immigration. OCLC: 886715856. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (HUV, UTexas, Utoronto, Fenimore Art Museum, Ben Gurion, Univ Bibl Johann Christian Senckenberg, Univ & Landesbibliothek Dusselsorf), none at any Ivy League Institution. Very Good condition. Scarce. (AMR-26-2-ECC) xx Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Glanz, Rudolf : THE JEWS IN AMERICAN ALASKA (1867-1880) . Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, libri antichi, collectables, out-of-print books and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |