Der Jüdischer Kongress in Basel by Dr. M. Mandelstam, translated by Shalom Aleichem. Warsaw, 1897. 30 pages, 19.5 cm. Jacket title page. Yiddish. Composition about the First Zionist Congress. Written by Dr. Max Mandelstam, one of the founders of the Chibat Tzion movement and later Herzl’s prominent assistant. Herzl assumed that Mandelstam would be the first president of the Jewish state. Shalom Aleichem edited and translated the work into Yiddish in his florid and succulent style. One of the early publications of Shalom Aleichem. Written on the title page that it will be distributed in all batei midrash in Kiev. Especially rare. Original binding. Aging stains. Tear on title page with no loss of text. Fine condition.