Doktor Kohn: Bürgerliches Trauerspiel aus der Gegenwart in vier Aufzügen.

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Lot 193

NORDAU, MAX

Doktor Kohn: Bürgerliches Trauerspiel aus der Gegenwart in vier Aufzügen.

On front fly, inscription by the Author toi Arthur Levy. pp. 200, (4). Vellum-backed marbled boards. Sm. 4to

Berlin: 1902

Est: $100 - $150

This tragedy is transparently autobiographic. Its protagonist is a highly educated young Jew who falls in love with a Christian woman, (as was Nordau's own wife). See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 1211-14.