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Lot #    15351
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 1:33:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Werther der Jude
Author    [First Ed.]? Ludwig Jacobowski
City    Berlin
Publisher    Krolls Buchdrukerei
Publication Date    1892?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    224 pp., 185:117 mm., usual age staining. A very good copy bound in later cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Ludwig Jacobowski (1868–1900), German poet and author. Born in Strelno, Posen, Jacobowski spent most of his short life in Berlin. He edited the newspaper Die Gesellschaft and wrote several volumes of poetry including Funken (1890), Satan lachte (1898), Aus bewegten Stunden (1899), Ausklang (1901), and Leuchtende Tage (1901). His novel Werther der Jude (1892), which expressed his inner turmoil, provoked more interest than his verse. In a second novel, Loki, Roman eines Gottes (1899), the eponymous figure of the lonely dark god rejected by the blond Teutonic deities symbolized the isolation of the Jew in Germanic culture. Jacobowski was also an essayist and author of a comedy, Diyab der Narr (1895). A significant Jewish figure in the last decade of 19th-century German literature, he conducted an interesting correspondence with many of the leading writers of his time, including Karl Kraus, Alfred Kerr, and Jacob Wassermann. He was an active defender of Jewish rights in the Verein zur Abwehr des Anti-semitismus and entered into a controversy with Hermann Ahlwardt, whose anti-Jewish "racial" work Der Verzweiflungskampf der arischen Voelker mit dem Judentum provoked Jacobowski's spirited reply, Offene Antwort eines Juden (1891). He also published Der Juden Anteil in Verbrechen (1892) and Der christliche Staat und seine Zukunft (1894). The works of Jacobowski reflect both his attempt to find a synthesis between Judaism and German culture and his own personal tragedy.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Literature
  
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Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica