Huge Collection of Over 1500 Issues of the Prominent Warsaw Newspaper "Der Yid" - Especially Rare

Huge Collection of Over 1500 Issues of the Prominent Warsaw Newspaper "Der Yid" - Especially Rare

Huge and rare collection including seven volumes comprising over 1500 daily and weekly issues of the prominent newspaper Der Yid with a total weight of over 45 kg! Warsaw 1919-1927. Valuable collection, precious find, with a treasure trove of historic documentation of one of the most important historical periods for the Jewish nation.

The newspaper Der Yid served as the Chareidi/Orthodox organ in Poland, and it includes a tremendous treasure chest of historic information about pre-Holocaust Jewish life in Poland. Chareidi Jewish opinion in contrast to that of the Zionists, was refined in this newspaper. There is much information about Agudat Yisrael brought in these pages, as well as about the magnificent Chachmei Lublin yeshivah (including the historic announcement about the beginning of the study of Daf Yomi!!), information about what was going on in the Land of Israel, and more. The editor of this newspaper was the Gur activist Baruch Kaminer.

Printed newspapers, and certainly daily newspapers, are especially rare, for several reasons. 1) Newspapers are a product meant to provide up-to-date news, and as such, most subscribers discarded a newspaper after finishing reading it. 2) Not all subscribers subscribed to a newspaper during all the years of its existence. 3) Very few people who subscribed to newspapers kept all the issues and then bound them so they would be preserved even longer. 4) A very large amount of books were burned and destroyed by the Nazi enemy, may their names be obliterated. 5) Those who made the effort to save a minimal amount of books during the Holocaust and thereafter, preferred investing their efforts in saving sacred sefarim, and not newspapers.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for specifications of the volumes and the issues.

Also included: A volume of Vochenblatt Yid, issues 1-31 (19 Shevat-22 Elul 1925). 

Various sizes. Maximum size: Approximately 40x56 cm, for a total of eight thick volumes.

Poor-moderate condition. Many leaves are detached and torn. Aging stains. Fragile paper, dry and brittle. Lacks in the leaves of the issues have not been completed. This lot is being sold as is.