All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk

Boris Kletzkin

1913

Yiddish Titles [Part 1]

  • Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913).

  • Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder, Kishinev-Vilna. Price 5 kopeks.

  • David Konigsberg, Poems, Lemberg (1913).

  • Peretz Hirschbein, My Book, published by Menachem, sales headquarters: Vilna publishers of B. A. Kletzkin, Vilna (1913).

  • Y. A. Leizerovich, The Wolfish Wedding, published by Yehudiah, Warsaw (1913).

  • Celebrating the Holiday [Lekoved yontev], the Babruisk Compilation, Vilna (1913). Price 10 kopeks.

  • Y. Schwartz, Letters from an Oppressed Writer, New York (1913).

  • BA"R, Stories from the Bible, translated into Yiddish, pt. 1, published by Moriah, Odessa (1913).

  • Yehoash, From This World and the Next: Sketches, Anecdotes, Short Stories, published by Yehoash, New York (1913).

  • Yehoash, In Sun and Fog, Poetry in Verse and Prose, published by Yehoash, New York (1913).

  • [Eugene] Brieux, The Damaged [Woman], a Play in Three Acts, translated by Dr. Lieber, New York (1913).

  • Robert L. Stevenson, (Reb) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [translated] from the English by B. Rose and A. Frumkin. Published by Kunst, London (1911).

  • Jacob Mestel, Vita the Jew [?]. Published by Shulamis, Kraków (1913).

  • Kalif, Serious and Fun: A Collection of Feuilletons, Satires, and Anecdotes. Łód´(1913).

  • The New Life [Dos naye lebn], edited by Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, August–September, 1912, New York.

  • Trades and Crafts: Illustrated Weekly [on] Economic, Technical, and Business Matters [Handl un melokhe: ekonomish tekhnish, un handls-ilustrirtes vokhnblat], nos. 1–2, 3–4.

  • Our Health: a monthly Jewish Journal, for Questions about Health [Unzer gezunt: a monatlekher yudisher tsyat-shrift far gezunthayts-fragen], August 1913, New York.

  • The Jewish Farmer [Der yidisher farmer], New York (September 1913).

  • The Future [Di Tsukunft], edited by A. Liessin, September 1913, New York.

Hebrew Titles

  • Isaac Schwinger, Being Choked, Pages from the Middle, vol. 1. Published by Nisyonot, Kiev (1913).

  • Israel Zan, Crushed Lives. Published by Hatḥalah, Warsaw (1913).

  • Pathways [Netivot]: A Public Platform for Life and Literature, Book One, Warsaw (1913). Published by Aḥisefer Society. Price 2 rubles.

  • Revival [Teḥiyah], a Monthly for Literature, Science, and Arts, August 1913, New York.

  • Ha-Shiloaḥ, a Monthly for Literature, Science, and Life, August 1913, Odessa.

  • The Homeland [Ha-Moledet], a Youth Monthly, edited by Jacob Fichman, Tishrei-Av 1913, Jaffa.

  • The Mast [Ha-Toren], a Hebrew Monthly, no. 50. Menachem Av, 1913 New York.

  • Jerusalem [Yerushalayim], no. 1. Published by Ḥoveve Yerushalayim, Jaffa (1913).

  • Small Rain [Revivim] no. 3–4, edited by Y. H. Brenner. Published by Hasharon, Jaffa (1913).

  • Avner, Regarding the Question of Our Labor in The Land [of Israel]. Published by Aḥdut, Jerusalem (1913).

Yiddish Titles [Part 2]

  • Shalom Asch, Rabbi Shlomo Nagid. Price 60 kopeks, bound 90 k. Vilna publishing house of B. A. Kletzkin (1913).

  • H. D. Nomberg, The Family: A Play in Four Acts. Price 40 k. Vilna publishing house of B. A. Kletzkin (1913).

  • D. Hokhberg, The New School: An Illustrated Alphabet, with a Great Deal of Material to Read After the Alphabet. Price bound: 50 kopeks. Vilna publishing house of B. A. Kletzkin (1913).

  • D. Hokhberg and K. Zhitomirsky, Methodical Instructions for the “New School.” Price 75 kopeks. Vilna publishing house of B. A. Kletzkin (1913).

  • D. Einhorn, My Poems, 2nd Edition. Price 50 kopeks. Vilna Publishing House of B. A. Kletzkin (1913).

  • Der pinkes [Journal], Yearbook for the History of Yiddish Literature and Language, Folklore, Criticism, and Bibliography. Edited by Sh. Niger. Price 2.50 rubles, bound 3.25 rubles. Vilna publishing house of B. A. Kletzkin (1913)

  • Y. Levin, Y. Lukowsky, and S. Horowitz, “Our New School”: Chrestomathy for the Second and Third School Year. Published by Levin-Epstein, Warsaw (1914).

Russian Titles

  • Kolossia: Journal for Jewish Children (July–August, 1913).

  • A. Bloom and L. S. Zack, eds., Cooperation [i.e., economic cooperatives] Among the Jews. St. Petersburg (1913).

  • Ukrainian Life. Moscow (July–August 1913).

  • The Jewish Community Messenger, Vol. 1. St. Petersburg (August–September 1913).

German Titles

  • The Orient: Monthly Journal for the Economic Development of the East, nos. 2–3 (1913).

  • Die Freistatt [The Free State]: alljüdische Revue, August volume (1913).

  • Vom Judentum [Regarding Jewry]: A Collection Published by the Bar Kokhba Jewish High School Jewish Students’ Union in Prague. Published by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig (1913).

  • Dr. Hugo Bergmann, Moses’ Words. Published by Bruns’, Minden.

Editor-publisher: B. A. Kletzkin

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Boris Kletzkin, “Bikher, vos zenen ongekumen in redaktsye” [All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk], Yudishe velt 3 (1913): pp. 148–49.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Boris Kletzkin

1875–1937

The only child of wealthy parents, Boris Arkadevich Kletzkin was born in Horodishche, Russian Empire (today in Belarus) and received a traditional Jewish education as well as secular tutoring. In his youth, his family moved to Vilna, and Kletzkin embarked on a career in Yiddish publishing. A supporter of The Bund, he helped establish The Bund’s central publishing house and its main organs, Der veker and Di folks-tsaytung. Deeply devoted to the Yiddishist idea of creating a new secular Yiddish high culture, in 1910 Kletzkin founded his own publishing company devoted to that ideal and the Kletzkin Farlag in Vilna immediately became the premiere publishing house for Yiddish secular literature, scholarship, and children’s literature—attainments embodied in the premiere Yiddishist “thick journal” of the prewar era Di yudishe velt, the pioneering Yiddish scholarly anthology Der pinkes, and the premiere Yiddish children’s journal Grininke boymelekh [beymelekh]. Although his activities were interrupted by World War I, he refounded the Kletzkin Farlag after the war and devoted the rest of his life and much of his own personal wealth to Yiddish literary publishing in Vilna and Warsaw. Kletzkin’s influence on Yiddish letters was profound, and important works of Yiddish literature continued to appear under his name even after his death.

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