Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt. Large collection of more than 100 issues of the Berlin edition from 1940-42. <<* And: >> Two issues from the Prague edition, 1944-45 - including the final issue.

Following the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938, Jewish life in Germany was even further curtailed and all remaining Jewish newspapers were shut down by the government. In their place, the Nazi Party ordered the creation of a single, new Jewish newspaper, “Das Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt,” that would be directly under Gestapo control. It was published concurrently in Berlin, Vienna and Prague and was occupied to a large extent with announcing the ever-increasing number of anti-Semitic discriminations, orders and exclusions imposed by the Reich government. Over the course of its history, the editors of the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt were Leo Kreindler (1938-42) and Willi Pless (1942-43). The Berlin edition ran from the 23rd November, 1938 until the final issue of 4th June 1943. The Prague edition continued until 1945. In a ghoulish twist of Nazi irony, Gentiles were forbidden from reading the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt yet the newspaper’s targeted readership, the Jews, were literally hounded to their deaths by the very authorities who presided over the newspaper’s ownership! Contained in the present lot are: <<*>> Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt (Berlin). Three issues from 1940 (4 pages each): Numbers 10, 15, 22. <<*>> Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt (Berlin). Seventy-one issues from 1941 (4 pages each): Numbers 1-47 and 49-72. <<*>> Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt (Berlin). Twenty-six issues from 1942 (4 pages each): Numbers 4-6, 8-23, 25, 27-29, 31, 36-37. <<*>> Prag Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt. Zidovske Listy. Two issues. From 1944, Number 1 (only issue from 1944?) and 1945, Number 2 (final issue) . See Reiner Burger, Von Goebbels Gnaden: “Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt” 1938-1943 (2001).