(Karl Boromäus Alexander Sessa). Spekulanterne, eller: Hoben se nix zu schachern? Fars i en akt. Öfversättning efter tredje original-upplagan af Unser Verkehr [“The Speculators: or, Have You Nothing to Haggle? A Farce in One Act.”]
AUCTION 70 |
Thursday, September 22nd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 213
(ANTISEMITICA).
(Karl Boromäus Alexander Sessa). Spekulanterne, eller: Hoben se nix zu schachern? Fars i en akt. Öfversättning efter tredje original-upplagan af Unser Verkehr [“The Speculators: or, Have You Nothing to Haggle? A Farce in One Act.”]
Stockholm: A. Gadelius 1817
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,500
Swedish translation of a German play anonymously penned by Karl Boromaeus Alexander Sessa (1786-1813), a district physician in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder. His crude anti-Semitic dramas presented Jewish characters in the most vulgar way, all driven by the lowest mercenary motives and speaking a ridiculous, stilted and broken German. The present play was first presented in Breslau in 1813 to immediate popular reception, although it was banned in Berlin due to liberal sentiment. It is written in a fake “Yiddish-German” that makes fun of the Jews and their language. This Swedish edition retains this spoof jargon. The hand-colored frontispiece, featuring the principal characters of the play, appears only in this Swedish edition.