Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
UNCLE TOM IN YIDDISH (SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Translated into Yiddish by J. Jaffa. Frontispiece of the author and copious illustrations throughout. Large, thick 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth, worn and shaken; front inner hinge started. New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, (1911)

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first edition in yiddish. An uncommon translation, aimed at New York's early Jewish immigrant population. Jews fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe and Russia could easily relate to the sufferings of blacks under slavery.