The Original Mr. Jacobs. A Startling Exposé. (Anonymously penned by Telemachus Thomas Timayenis).

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Lot 97
(ANTISEMITICA).

The Original Mr. Jacobs. A Startling Exposé. (Anonymously penned by Telemachus Thomas Timayenis).

<<First Edition.>> pp. vi, 308. Lightly browned. Recent wrappers. 8vo.

New York: Minerva 1888

Est: $200 - $300
Telemachus (Telemaque) Thomas Timayenis (often T. T. Timayenis, 1853-1918) was a Greek-American academic and promoter of anti-Semitic canards. Stemming from a well-to-do Greek family, Timayenis was born in Smyrna (Izmir) and educated in Athens. He immigrated to the United States and taught classical Greek to the children of some of America’s richest families, including the Rockefellers. In 1888 he left his scholarly work and established the Minerva Publishing Company which issued books deeply critical of Jews. In ‘The Original Mr. Jacobs’ a title used to explain the "real Jew,” Timayenis acknowledges the work of French journalist Edouard Drumont and his 1886 book La France Juive.