Item 8474. EXOTISCHE JUDEN; BERICHTE UND STUDIEN

EXOTISCHE JUDEN; BERICHTE UND STUDIEN

Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1932. Item #35193

Original Cloth. 8vo. 246 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. 'Exotic Jews. Reports and Studies. ' Collection of travel-vignettes on Jewish, Jewish sects, and Crypto-Jewish communities: the Lithuanian and Cairo Karaites, Sephardi Jews of Thessaloniki, Maghrebian Mizrahi Jews, Yemenite Teimanim, and the crypto-Jewish Dönmeh (Sabbateans) in Turkey as well as Mallorquin Conversos; financed by and originally written for the Yiddish daily Haynt; these reports formed the basis for this book. Ezriel Carlebach (1908–1956) , was a “Hebrew writer and journalist. Carlebach, who was born in Leipzig, left there at the age of 15 to study at Lithuanian yeshivot and later became a pupil of Rabbi Kook in Jerusalem. He was secretary of the international Sabbath League and organized its first conference in Berlin in 1929. Carlebach worked on the editorial staff of the Hamburger Israelitisches Familienblatt from 1929; of the Haynt of Warsaw from 1933; and also the Tel Aviv papers Haaretz and Ha-Zofeh. ” - EJ 2008. Subjects: Jewish diaspora. Cloth soiled, internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (SEF-52-58) xx.

Price: $100.00

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