Meyer Sluyser. Joden in Nood! [”Jews in Need”]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $500

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author

(POLAND).

printer

N.V. De Arbeiderspers

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1932

Description

Dutch text. Illustrated with 8-page series of photomontages by Lex Althoff.

summary

Dutch journalist and resistance fighter Adrian Aloijsius Felix (Lex) Althoff (1904-43) displays his avante garde photographic style in this publication that sought to bring attention to the poverty of the Jews of Poland. The cropped and stylized images here depict Jewish genre scenes in creative compositions. Interestingly, a photograph of the Grand Rabbi of Munkacs, Chaim Elazar Spira (the Minchas Elazar) appears on the final page.

pp. 76, (8). Lightly stained. Original pictorial wrappers, starting. 8vo.

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