Katalog des Jüdischen Kulturbundes in Deutschland E.V. / Abteilung Verlag

As the Nazis closed to Germany’s Jews all sources of livlihood, all Jewish publishing houses were forceably shutted. Those books not seized by the Gestapo, were placed under the ownership of the “Jüdischen Kulturband.” The present catalogue lists all those books held by the newly-formed organization and now offered for sale. A contemporaneous newspaper article reporting of this (the Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt - copy provided in the lot), dramatically notes "though many of us will soon travel to distant lands, this cannot and must not be an obstacle for a Jew to acquire Jewish books..."