Jewish Industrial Establishments in Poland. Zydowskie Przedsiebiorstwa Przemyslowe W Polsce (Volume III)
Warszawa: 1922. Hardcover. 4to. clxv, 151, 169, clxxxiv,pp. Three-quarter faux leather over paper-covered boards. Front and rear board and backstrip detached but present. Hebrew lettering in gold on spine. In the early 1920s, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committe financed an economic survey of the Jewish population in Poland to assist in better funding of the collapsing Jewish economy, as well as refuting claims that Polish Jews were profiting from World War I. The results were published in eight volumes in 1922-23. Each volume contains general tables and separate explanatory texts in English, Polish and Yiddish. With large color fold-out plate containing diagrams of "Active Workshops and Hired Workmen in Byalistok-Cityand District at Time of Investigation 1921." "Surveyed in 1921. Compiled under the Supervision of Eliezer Heller. Volume III, Bialystok City and District. Wedlug Ankiety Z 1921 Roku. Opracowane Pod Kierownictwem Eliezera Hellera. Tom Trzeci, Bialystok Miasto I Wojewodztwo." Backstrip almost separated from front board. Heavy chipping to rear board with parts missing. Front free endpaper torn and chippedwith top right corner missing. Top and bottom corner of leaves bumped throughout. Age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Binding in poor, majority of interior leaves in good condition. As is. Volume III only of eight volumes. poor. Item #30937
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