Meyer Sluyser. Joden in Nood! [”Jews in Need”]

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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

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Meyer Sluyser. Joden in Nood! [”Jews in Need”]

Dutch text. Illustrated with 8-page series of photomontages by <<Lex Althoff.>> pp. 76, (8). Lightly stained. Original pictorial wrappers, starting. 8vo.

Amsterdam: N.V. De Arbeiderspers 1932

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $500

Dutch journalist and resistance fighter Adrian Aloijsius Felix (Lex) Althoff (1904-43) displays his avante garde photographic style in this publication that sought to bring attention to the poverty of the Jews of Poland. The cropped and stylized images here depict Jewish genre scenes in creative compositions. Interestingly, a photograph of the Grand Rabbi of Munkacs, Chaim Elazar Spira (the Minchas Elazar) appears on the final page.