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Ha-Minhal ha-Yehudi ha-Atsmi (ha-Yudenrat) be-Geto Bialystok [The Jewish Self-Administration (Judenrat) in the Bialystok Ghetto] [INSCRIBED & SIGNED]

Shalhav, Yacov

[Jerusalem]: Hebrew University, 1961. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [4] 59pp. Tan heavy stock paper wrappers, with stapled binding. Handwritten text in pen on the front cover. Inscribed and signed by the author to Dr. Aryeh Bauminger, in pen at the top of the first page. This scarce mimeographed work was submitted by the author as his thesis for a degree in Public Administration, at the Eliezer Kaplan School of Economics and Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It examines the history, organization, and activities of the Judenrat in the Bialystok ghetto (1941-1943) during the Holocaust. The Judenrat (meaning "Jewish Council" in German) was comprised of a group of 24 Jews who presided over and administered the Jewish population of the ghetto, and was one of many such similar groups set up by the Nazis in Jewish communities across eastern Europe.

Text throughout in Hebrew.

Wrappers with some sunning, creasing and some light foxing along the right edge of the front cover. Title page with a light water stain on the left side. Pages otherwise extremely clean and tight. Wrappers in good+, interior in very good+ condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Scarce. g+ to vg+. Item #48034

Hebrew title: המינהל היהודי העצמי )היודנראט( בגיטו ביאליסטוק [sic]
Alternate spelling : המנהל היהודי העצמי )היודנראט( בגטו ביאליסטוק
Author: יעקב שלהב
Alternate transliteration: Yaacov Shilhav.

Price: $950.00