AUFBAU ALMANAC: THE IMMIGRANT’S HANDBOOK. 1941/5701
New York; German-Jewish Club, Inc, 1941. with no dust jacket. Item #43508
1st edition. Original Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 192 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated. In German and English.
Photographic and line illustrations in text, includes many advertisements as well as a black and white frontispiece portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes foreword of endorsement by Albert Einstein.
Handbook for recently arrived German-Jewish exiles from Nazi Germany, with information and instruction on Jewish-German immigrant associations, citizenship classes, American life and customs (particularly in New York City), the text of The Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America, and the meaning of such vernacular expressions as the 'Bronx cheer' and 'sawbucks.' Produced by the editors of the monthly magazine Aufbau, which began publishing in 1934.
A copy sold for $2000 with buyers commissions at auction in 2018.
Subjects: Almanacs, American -- New York (State) OCLC: 970939227, 248298786, 243425010, 959348607. OCLC Locates 4 copies in North America (HUC, JHU, NYHS, LBI), plus a copy at the US Holocaust Museum which they keep in their Rare Book Room. “L(?). T. Edelberg” penned on title page. Covers laminated and spine rebacked. German-Jewish historical institute stamps, Otherwise Good condition. (B) (HOLO2-110-12-RESA).
Price: $950.00