LEDERER, EDUARD "LEDA"
AUCTION 48 |
Thursday, May 27th,
2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Featuring an Exceptional Collection of American Judaica
Lot 318
LEDERER, EDUARD "LEDA"
Est: $800 - $1,200
The Czech-Jewish assimilationist and man of letters Dr. Eduard Lederer (pseud. "Leda") was born in 1859 in Chotoviny. He studied Law at the University of Prague and subsequently practiced in Neuhaus. After the founding of the independent Republic of Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of World War One, Lederer became Consultant for Jewish Culture to the Ministry of Education. and subsequently devoted much of his writing to the Jewish Question. A Czech nationalist to the core, nonetheles, Lederer was deported to Theresienstadt where he perished in 1944.
See The Jews of Czechoslovakia: Historical Studies and Surveys, Vol. I (1968) pp. 78, 446; Vol. II (1971) pp. 151-2; EJ, Vol. X, col. 1557.