Auction 64 · Lot 193
Chad Gadjo.
- Estimate
- $800–$1,200
- Hammer price
- $900
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).
printer
Welt-Verlag
Place
Berlin
Publication
1920
Description
Ten dramatic hand-colored plates by Menachem Birnbaum. Hebrew with German translation prepared by the artist’s brother, Uriel Birnbaum.
summary
A “most chilling bibliophilic book.” See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp. 128-30 (illustrated).
Uriel Birnbaum (1894-1956) and Menachem Birnbaum (1893-1944) were the sons of Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937) an early Zionist leader, who later achieved renown as a prominent ideologue of the Agudath Israel movement. Natives of Vienna, both brothers fled the Nazis to Amsterdam. With the Nazi conquest of Holland, Menachem Birnbaum was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished; Uriel managed to survive in hiding.
Some staining. Original pictorial colored boards with ties. Lg. 4to.
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