(OPPENHEIMER, JOSEPH SUESS).

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 138

(OPPENHEIMER, JOSEPH SUESS).

Frolockender Glücks-Wunsch und freudiges Jubel-Geschrey bey dem wohl-verwahrten Auszuge des fameusen Juden und Ertz-Land-Betrügers Süß Oppenheimers, von Stuttgard nach Hohen-Neiffen, und von daher zum Galgen und denen Teuffeln, in einem kurtzgefaßten Carmine, worinnen dessen vornehmste Verbrechen und Schindereyen angemercket, entworffen von denen hart beträngt gewesenen würtenbergis. Unterthanen [“Jubilant congratulations and joyful cheering at the well-guarded departure of the famed Jew and notorious national impostor, Suess Oppenheimer from Stuttgart to… the gallows and to hell…”] pp. (4). Unbound. 4to.

N.p: (1738)

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $900

Four-page poem celebrating the downfall of Joseph Suess Oppenheimer (1698-1738), court Jew to the Duke of Württemberg. The undoing of “Jud Suess,” an event of widespread revengeful merriment, remained a subject of ridicule within German-speaking anti-Semitic circles for centuries.