Chad Gadjo. German translation by Uriel Birnbaum

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).

printer

Welt-Verlag

Place

Berlin

Publication

1920

Description

Ten dramatic color plates by Birnbaum. Hebrew and German text. On front fly, inscription signed by Author: "Herrn Prof. Paul Glaessner in menschliches und "patientlicher" Ergebenheit. Menachem Birnbaum. Pessach 5664" [!]

summary

“most chilling bibliophilic book.” Signed by the Author. Menachem Birnbaum (1893-1944) was the son of Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937), an early Zionist leader, who later achieved renown as an ideologist of the Agudath Israel movement. A native of Vienna, Menachem Birnbaum fled 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

Some staining. Original pictorial colored boards, lacking ties, upper cover loose. Lg. 4to

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