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Zhitlowsky, Chaim : DI ASIMILATSYE: VOS ZI ZOGT TSU UN VOS ZI GIT

Vien [Vienna, Wien]: Ferlag Naye Velt, 1914

First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 40 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Assimilation: What It Means and What It Gets. ” Chaim Zhitlowsky (1865 - 1943) was a Jewish socialist, philosopher, social and political thinker, writer and literary critic born in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) . He was a founding member of the Union of Russian Socialist Revolutionaries and was later, a founding member and ideologue of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia. He was a major proponent of Yiddishism and Jewish Diaspora nationalism, which later influenced the Jewish territorialist and nationalist movements. He was an advocate of Yiddish language and culture and was a vice-president of the Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference of 1908, which declared Yiddish to be "a national language of the Jewish people. In the present treatise, Zhitlowsky argues for a rejection of Jewish assimilation and an embrace of a progressive, Jewish national culture (Wiki, 2016) . SUBJECTS: Jewish Socialists – Bund –Narodnik. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide with none outside of the U. S. ) ..Otherwise, Very Good Condition. (YID-24-3)

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