Weimarer Historisch-Genealoges Taschenbuch des Gesamten Adels Juhudaischen Ursprunges.

(GENEALOGY).

Kyffhäuser Verlag

Munich

1913

Frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

A comprehensive survey of those families of Jewish ancestry who were members of the titled European nobility (and a handful of non-European royalty or nobility). Published at a time when the prestige and influence of European Jewry was high and represented pride in Jewish social achievements since the Emancipation. Unhappily, this rare publication was later to be used by the Nazis to identify families and individuals for extermination and many copies were destroyed both by the Nazis themselves and by those Jewish families who had once been proud to have been included. Birth dates are indicated with a Star of David, while a Jewish tomb stone symbol indicated who died in the Jewish faith, and a Cross those who died in the Christian faith. Marriage dates are indicated with two bold rings interlocking if husband and wife both had Jewish blood, while a bold ring with an outline ring indicate whether only one of the partners was of Jewish ancestry. Two opposite pointing horizontal arrows indicate divorce. (See also next lot).