Het Nieuwe Jooden-Spel [The New Jew Game].
AUCTION 27 |
Tuesday, February 08th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art
Lot 365
(ANTISEMITICA).
Het Nieuwe Jooden-Spel [The New Jew Game].
Amsterdam 1837.:
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
Though anti-Semitism was never as virulent in Holland as in neigboring Germany, this Dutch board game is an example of an unpleasant sense of humor. Purporting to be a polite table game involving the throwing of dice, the object is to mock the Jew depicted in the center with roaming nose and unkempt beard. Mozes Heiman Gans' Memorbook, a pictorial history of the Jews in Holland, abounds with such antisemitic caricatures. This game however, is not in Gans' book