The Jews in the Soviet Union by Schwarz, Solomon M - (1951)

Syracuse University Press, 1951. Foreword by Alvin Johnson 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 380 pages including index From dust jacket: "(This book) penetrates the Iron Curtain of propaganda, silence and falsification behind which the Communists of Soviet Russia have hidden the treatment of the Jewish population of the USSR... Communist propagandists have long boasted that antisemitism is non-existent in the USSR: that discrimination against any race or nationality is sternly repressed: and that the Jewish minority in the Soviet Union, along with all other minorities, is free to develop its own language, culture, and communal life." Contents include: The Historical Legacy Community Doctrine on the National Problem The Jewish People in Leninst Perspective Self-Determination and Self-Government in Soviet Practice Jewish Administrative Autonomy Agraianization and Industrialization Birobidzhan The War and After Jacket is in poor condition with a large trip missing… Read More

Syracuse University Press, 1951, 380 pages, 6.25" x 9.25", Near Fine Hardcover / Good Dustjacket.

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 1951. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Browning on front endpapers from newspaper clipping. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (5.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Foreword by Alvin Johnson. A thoroughly documented study with chapters on: Historical Legacy; Communist Doctrine; Jewish People in Leninist Perspective; Protection of Minority Rights; Destruction of the Jewish Community; A "National" Policy for Jews; Cultural Activities; Jewish Administrative Autonomy; Agrarianization and Industrialization; Biobidzhan; The War and After; Evacuation of Jews in the War; The Emergence of Popular Antisemitism; Antisemitic Grievances and Jewish Reality; Under the Nazi Occupation; Postwar Contradictions; etc. Chapter notes. Index. Original blue cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good+ DJ (lightly frayed). 8vo. xviii, 380pp.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 1951. (Hardcover) 380pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Notes, tables, index.The corners are bumped, the front free endpaper has been clipped, the dust jacket is edgeworn and price-clipped, and there is a previous owner's name. Foreword by Alvin Johnson. Locale:. (History--Russia, Anti-Semitism, History--Russia, Jews--Russia).