American Jewish Year Book : (31 volume set)

American Jewish Committee, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [A Jewish American view of World Events during the Rise of Nazism, the Final Solution, and the Holocaust] 31 volumes. Bound in publisher's cloth. Gilt spine lettering. Some staining, discoloration to some of the covers. Pages generally clean and unmarked. Bindings sound. Personal library or institutional stamps on most volumes. <br> A fascinating yearly chronicle of the status of Jews in American and around the world. This set contains some of the most pivotal years in modern Jewish history, describing in detail the destruction of the Jews of Europe. Each volume contains a record of the events of the year as they related to Jews in the United States and other countries, Special Articles, Biographies (often with portraits of Jewish leaders), Communal Activity, Directories, History, Statistics, Censuses, Bibliographies, etc. Much of the content is written in advocacy for Jewish rights and against the rising discrimination, bigotry and anti-Semitism that was sweeping across the world during the early 20th century. <br> <br> A selection of the contents: 5662: 1901-1902 (Jews of Roumania; Etc.); 5674: 1913-1914 (Balkan Wars and Jews, Levantine Jews in the United States); 5675: 1914-1915 (Beilis Affair, Jewish Education); 5680: 1919-1920 (Jews of France in the Great War, British Jewry in the War, Jewish Battalions and the Palestine Campaign); 5692: 1931-1932 (Jewish Soldiers in the Spanish American War, Biographies, Jewish Battalions and the Palestine Campaign, Jews in the Great War, Kishineff to Bailystock, pogroms, In defense of the Immigrant, Sunday Laws of the United States and Judicial Decisions Having Reference to Jews); 5693: 1932-1933 (Jews of Roumania, Recent Jewish Progress in Palestine, Jews of Serbia, Jewish population of Maryland); 5694: 1933-1934 (Jews of Latin America, The Rights of Minorities, Portraits of Early American Jews, Jews of Hungary); 5695: 1934-1935 (Bernheim Petition, Jewish Community of New York, Jewish Welfare Board, Jews of Russia (USSR), Jews of Turkey, Jews of Germany); 5696 : 1935-1936 (Passport Question, Minority and Refugee Questions before the League of Nations, Jews of Latvia, Jews of Lithuania, Jews of South Africa, Yiddish Press); 5698 : 1937-1938 (Migration of Jews in Recent Years, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Hitler, Zionism, Agitation by Nazis in America, partition of Palestine); 5699 : 1938-1939 (Jewish Immigration to Palestine, Poland, Nazis, the Bund in America, anti-Jewish excesses in Austria, Anti-Jewish Law, Goering, Ayranization, Official Hate Propaganda, Anschluss, Suicide or Flight); 5700 : 1939-1940 (Benjamin Cardozo, Italy, Fascism, Czechoslovakia, Jewish slave labor camps in Germany / Austria, Suicide of the German Jews, annihilation of the Jews of Germany, rounding up of Jews in the Netherlands, anti-Jewish actions in France, destruction of the Jews of Belgium, Das Schwartze Korps, "Germany did not rest with the annihilation of the Jewish community within her own frontiers, but sought, insorfar as it was able, to visit the same fate upon Jews all over the world."; 5701 : 1940-1941 (World War II, American Jews fighting for democracy and freedom, the cataclysmic dislocation and destruction of the Jews of Europe, occupation of Poland, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazi enslavement of Poland's Jews, concentration camps "reservation in the Lublin area", Chaim Weizmann, surrender of France, "disappearances" of the Jews of France, Jewish "reservation" in the Netherlands, destruction of the Jews of the Netherlands, Gestapo, destruction of synagogues, Dachau, deportation of Jews to "reservations", "A Work is done in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told." Habakkuk I:5, the destruction of the Jews of Poland, massacres and executions, mass arrests and forced labor, fate of Jewish women and children); 5706 : 1945-1946 (The year 5705 witnessed the end of the critical period during which the Jews of Europe were marked for, and came close to, extermination at the hands of the Nazi hordes.", Franklin Roosevelt, Jewish War Records of World War II, Zionism, Jews in the Armed Forces, the defeat of Nazi Germany, Jews in France during the occupation, Himmler, liberation of the concentration camps, Warsaw Ghetto, Lotz, "an inferno of terror and suffering," "liquidation actions," "gas-chambers and extermination dens," A note from the Warsaw Ghetto: "We doubt whether it will be given to us to live to see you. Our warmest greetings to all workers in the field of Jewish culture, writers, journalists, musicians, artists, and all the builders of modern Jewish culture and fighters for national liberation and the liberation of mankind," Death factories, Jewish Armed Resistance in the Ghettos and Partisan Warfare, Nazi annihilation of the Jews in the USSR, Liberation (cataloger's note: at a certain point of reading this chronicle I became quite sad and had to stop for a time); v.48. 5707 : 1946-1947 (President Truman, the transfer of surviving Jewish refugees to Palestine, arrival of new immigrants, Palestine.) <br> Provenance: Edward Whitehill's bookplate; J. Solis-Cohen, Jr. bookplate. <br> Refs: Sarna, Jonathan D., and Jonathan J. Golden, "The Twentieth Century Through American Jewish Eyes: A History of the" American Jewish Year Book", 1899-1999." The American Jewish Year Book 100 (2000): 3-102. <br> 5661 : 1900-1901; 5662 : 1901-1902; 5670 : 1909-1910; 5671 : 1910-1911; 5674: 1913-1914; 5675: 1914-1915; 5676 : 1915-1916; 5677 : 1916-1917; 5678: 1917-1918; 5680: 1919-1920; 5681 : 1920-1921; 5683 : 1922-1923; 5684 : 1923-1924; 5685 : 1924-1925; 5686 : 1925-1926; 5688 : 1927-1928; 5689 : 1928-1929; 5690 : 1929-1930; 5692: 1931-1932; 5693: 1932-1933; 5694: 1933-1934; 5695: 1934-1935; 5696 : 1935-1936; 5697: 1936-1937 5698 : 1937-1938; 5699 : 1938-1939; 5700 : 1939-1940; 5701: 1940-1941; 5702 : 1941-1942; 5706 : 1945-1946; 5707 : 1946-47