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Das Jüdische Magazin. Edited by Oscar Gruen.

Auction 73 · Lot 257

Das Jüdische Magazin. Edited by Oscar Gruen.

Estimate
$800–$1,200
Hammer price
$700

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

author

(PERIODICAL)

Place

Berlin

Publication

1929

Description

Numbers 1-4 (all published). Illustrated throughout.

summary

A mixture of photographs, literary texts, as well as sports, entertainment and puzzle corners. One of its unmistakable goals was to illustrate the extraordinary contributions of Jews to international cultural and intellectual life. Each of the four issues published had a theme devoted to a major Jewish celebrity (Walther Rathenau, Max Liebermann, Moses Mendelssohn, Yehudi Menuhin). Selling a monthly to a core target group of less than two percent of the German population (as well as a probably very small number of indomitable philo-Semites) was a courageous endeavor. Although still bearing an ad for subscriptions on its back cover, the fourth issue was apparently the last.
Contemporary calf-backed boards with original color pictorial wrappers bound in. 4to.
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