Auction 38 · Lot 247
Chad Gadjo. German translation by Uriel Birnbaum
- Estimate
- $1,200–$1,800
- Hammer price
- $1,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).
printer
Welt-Verlag
Place
Berlin
Publication
1920
Description
Ten dramatic color plates by Birnbaum. Hebrew and German
summary
A fine copy of a “most chilling bibliophilic book.”
Menachem Birnbaum (1893-1944) was the son of Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937), an early secular Zionist leader, who later achieved renown as an ideologist of the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel movement. A native of Vienna, Menachem Birnbaum fled before the Nazis to Amsterdam. With the Nazi conquest of Holland, Birnbaum was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991), pp.128-130
Original pictorial colored boards, lacking ties, upper cover loose. Lg. 4to
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