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Chad Gadjo. German translation by Uriel Birnbaum

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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