Very good, ex-lib, stamps book-plate and blind stamp title page; From the onset in the mid-nineteenth century, the YMHA, which began as the Youn Men's Hebrew Literary Association, had social rather than sectarian goals, with emphasis on lectures, literary and musical, and classes in Hebrew language and literature. This book covers an interesting period which saw the huge influx of Jewish immigration coming from Eastern Europe beginning in the 1880s and continuing on until WWI. ; vii-115 pp pages

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