Scenes Familiales Juives - Yudishes Familienleben [Yiddish]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

LEVY, ALPHONSE

Place

Paris

Publication

circa 1900

Description

Frontispiece and 21 charming plates of Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare

references

not in Rubens

summary

For an interesting comparison between Levy and his contemporary Moritz Oppenheim (see lot ***) see, N.L. Kleeblatt, Illustrating Jewish Lifestyles on Opposite Banks of the Rhine: Alphonse Levy’s Alsatian Peasants and Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Frankfurt Burghers, in: Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 16/17 (1990/91) pp.53-63

Contemporary gilt-stamped 3/4 tree-calf over marbled boards with original pictorial wrappers bound in, lightly rubbed, folio

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