Jean-Paul Sartre. Réflexions sur la Question Juive.

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

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Lot 57

(ANTISEMITICA).

Jean-Paul Sartre. Réflexions sur la Question Juive.

<<First Edition>> . Half-title <<inscribed and signed by Sartre.>> pp. 198, (2). Touch foxed, manuscript dedication on half title. Original printed wrappers. 12mo.

Paris: Editions Morihien 1946

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

Jean-Paul Sartre’s lengthy and most important essay concerning anti-Semitism. Written shortly following the liberation of Paris from German occupation, 1944. Noticing that popular public discussion in post-war France failed to address the tragedy of the return (or not) of French Jews deported by the Nazis, Sartre was concerned that the French people lacked an appreciation for what indeed actually happened to the Jews. So he set about writing this historically placed critique of anti-Semitism, thus expressing the great French philosopher’s solidarity with the Jews.