Konstitutsiyon fun di Fareynigte Shtaten - Constitution of the United States…With the Declaration of Independence. By “A Lithuanian Philosopher” (i.e. Getzel Selikovitch). Text in Yiddish and English.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Sarasohn and Son

New York

1892

With lists in Yiddish, of the Presidents of the United States as well as major population centers.

Singerman 4442

Getzel (or George) Selikovitch (1863? -1926) received a traditional Yeshivah education in Mir and Karlin, before entering the Sorbonne to study Egyptology and Oriental languages. In 1885 he accompanied the British army to the Sudan as an interpreter. In 1887 he immigrated to America, where he taught for a short while in the University of Pennsylvania before finding his métier in Yiddish journalism.