Friedrich Schiff & Paula Eskelund. Squeezing Through: Shanghai Sketches 1941-1945.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Lot 199

(CHINA).

Friedrich Schiff & Paula Eskelund. Squeezing Through: Shanghai Sketches 1941-1945.

<<First Edition.>> Numerous illustrations and photographs, including illustrations depicting the life of refugee Jews in China. pp. (46). Browned. Original pictorial wrappers bound with ribbon, upper cover detached. Rectangular 8vo.

Shanghai: Hwa Kuo Printing Co., c. 1945

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $800

“This little book is an attempt in all modesty to set down in words and pictures an account of what good and evil was characterisitic of daily life in Shanghai during the war year 1941-45.” (Foreword). <<Very scarce.>> A petite volume with witty cartoons depicting daily life in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War Two. A number of pages focus specifically on Jews and the ‘Shanghai Ghetto’ of Hongkau. Friedrich Schiff (1908-68) was born to a Jewish family in Austria who fled Nazi-dominated Europe finding safety in China where he worked as an illustrator and caricaturist with an instantly recognizable style and sense of humor. He later settled in Argentina.