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Auction 42 · Lot 61

(ANTISEMITICA)

Estimate
$800–$1,200
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

Place

Vienna

Publication

Early 19th-century

Description

Group of three Viennese anti-Semitic Broadsides: Frische Judenkirschen ["Fresh Jewish-Cherries"]. Printed both sides. The pamphleteer writes that the Jews are arrogant and overly ambitious and undermining the Austrian military in Italy with their democratic ideas. * Die Juden=Herrschaft ["Jewish Rule": reaction to Emancipation of Jews]. Single side. * Schmidt, Franz. Bittschrift der Christensklaven an die Herren Juden um Christen-Emancipation ["Petition of the Christian Slaves to their Jewish Masters regarding Emancipation of the Christians."] Single side, printed in double columns.

summary

The third item is a reactionary lampoon that ridicules the Emancipation of the Jews of Austria, claiming matters have gone too far, to the point whereby “Christians are now in need of Emancipation from their Jewish masters”
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