Por que ser Anti-Semita? : Um Inquérito entre Intelectuais Brasileiros [“Why be an Anti-Semite? An Investigation among Brazilian Intellectuals.”]
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 190
(ANTISEMITICA).
Por que ser Anti-Semita? : Um Inquérito entre Intelectuais Brasileiros [“Why be an Anti-Semite? An Investigation among Brazilian Intellectuals.”]
Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira 1933
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $275
This book might well be a contender in the contest for "worst title ever! "
Despite the title, the volume discusses why NOT to be anti-Semitic, and includes thoughts on the matter by many of the most important Brazilian intellectuals of the day: Afranio Peixoto, Affonso Schmidt, Coelho Neto, Gilberto Amado, Menotti del Picchia, Orígenes Lessa, and even Plínio Barreto, a novelist who later became leader of the pro-Axis party in Brazil.
All are here responding to the "new German leadership," seeking to examine its philosophical underpinnings and relevance for Brazil.
The work is a snapshot in real time of an intellectual culture trying to come to terms with the unprecedented phenomenon of Government orchestrated anti-Semitism, whose full horrors had not yet been revealed, but whose abnormality was immediately felt.
See Jeffrey Lesser, Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question (1995).