Tzentrale Arbayter un Folks Bibliotek “Bronislav Grosser,” Warsaw [“The Central Worker’s and People’s Library]

(POLAND)

July,

Warsaw

1936

Commemorative album of photographs presented by the Bronislav Grosser Library to “Comrade B. Vladek.” Twenty pages, each inscribed in an elegant Yiddish hand serving as descriptive captions alongside 43 photographs (a few signed “RAK”).

A commemorative album of photographs serving as a statistical report of the activities of Warsaw’s famed Yiddish library. Features superb photographs depicting the Modernist layout of the library, librarians, readers and its various technical facilities. The Bronislaw Grosser Library of Warsaw was one of the central institutions in the cultural firmament of the Bund Movement. The library was named after the Bund’s leading activist, Bronislaw Grosser, who moved from a position of total Polish cultural assimilationism to one of being the most articulate defenders of Jewish national–cultural autonomy within Poland. The recipient of this album, Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886-1938) was a leading American-Jewish socialist agitator and theoretician, manager of The Jewish Daily Forward for twenty years and a member of the New York City Council. His brothers were the Yiddish literary figures Shmuel Niger and Daniel Charney.