Scenes Familiales Juives / Yudishes Familienleben. Preface by Bernard Lazare.

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Lot 239

LEVY, ALPHONSE.

Scenes Familiales Juives / Yudishes Familienleben. Preface by Bernard Lazare.

Frontispiece and 21 charming plates of Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Some wear. Original pictorial wrappers, chipped and repaired. Folio Not in Rubens

Paris: circa 1900

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

For an interesting comparison between Levy and his contemporary Moritz Oppenheim, see N.L. Kleeblatt, "Illustrating Jewish Lifestyles on Opposite Banks of the Rhine: Alphonse Levy’s Alsatian Peasants and Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Frankfurt Burghers" in: Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 16/17 (1990/91) pp. 53-63.