Volume 1-50 of the weekly Das Fraye Wort, founded by Yitzhak Nachman Steinberg, London, September 1933 - November 1934. On the leaflet appears a dedication in the handwriting and signature of Steinberg: א הארציגן גרוס זוימר י. נ. שטיינברג'.. Yiddish.
Above the dedication, an illustration is probably signed by Steinberg.
Yitzhak Steinberg [1888-1957]: Born in Russia, a Soviet Jewish politician active in the Territorialist movement. He came to Berlin in the 1920s because of political persecution by the Soviet authorities, where he published a series of books that attacked the regime in the Soviet Union mainly on human rights issues. In 1933, after Hitler's rise to power, he fled to London, where he began publishing the weekly. Steinberg, who opposed the Zionist idea, expressed his views on solving the problem of the Jews in Europe by finding a settlement for Jews outside of Europe, not necessarily in the Land of Israel, and published in Yiddish in order to appeal to the Jewish audience. Following this doctrine he worked to bring Jews to Kimberly, Australia, where he remained until the end of World War II.
50 sheets bound in hard cover, many advertisements by Jewish business owners, and institutions around London. Moth marks on binding lining. The issues themselves are in good condition.
