Simon, W. La Question Juive. Vue par vingt-six éminentes personnalités [“The Jewish Question. Viewed by Twenty-Six Eminent Personalities”]

(HOLOCAUST)

Les Presses Artistiques et Commerciales

Paris

1934

On front cover, black Scales of Justice superimposed upon red Nazi swastika. Black and white photographic plates. On p.102 a trenchant printer’s error: "Hitler" for "Hillel," and corrected by hand

In response to Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the Nazis' promulgation of the theory of Aryan racial supremacy, several members of the French Jewish intelligentsia collaborated on this collection designed to demonstrate the Jews' contribution to French society in various areas of endeavor: the miltary, medicine, business, philosophy, literature, theater, education, etc.