Forward From Exile Autobiography Shmarya Levin 1967 JPS First Edition DJ

Forward From Exile: The Autobiography of Shmarya Levin

Translated and Edited by Maurice Samuel

The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia

First Edition, 1967

EDITION DETAILS

- Copyright 1967 by The Jewish Publication Society of America

- Confirmed First Edition per copyright page

- Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-16188

- xxiii, 419 pages

- Designed by Sidney Feinberg

- Includes original red and black dust jacket (price intact: $7.50)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Shmarya Levin (1867–1935) was one of the great figures of the early

Zionist movement — a brilliant orator, member of the Russian Duma,

and close associate of Chaim Weizmann and Theodor Herzl. This

autobiography, originally written in Hebrew and Yiddish, was

translated and condensed into a single volume by Maurice Samuel,

one of the foremost Jewish literary translators of the 20th century

(also known for The World of Sholom Aleichem). The book chronicles

Levin's extraordinary life from a traditional Lithuanian cheder

through Russian Jewish society, the Zionist congresses, and his

emergence as a leader of world Jewry. Praised by contemporaries as

a matchless portrait of Russian Jewish life in the 19th century,

comparable in richness of humor to Sholom Aleichem.

CONDITION

- Dust jacket: Good to Very Good – red and black jacket with light

edge wear and rubbing; price intact ($7.50); no major tears;

text remains bright and legible

- Cover: Very Good – black cloth binding; tight and square

- Interior: Pages clean with mild age-toning; binding tight;

xxiii + 419 pages complete

- Please review all photos carefully as they are part of the

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