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Lot #    15959
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 11:18:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Der Sprung übers Herz: Vier Akte
Author    [Only Ed.] Emil Bernhard
City    Berlin
Publisher    Volksbühnen-Verlags- u. Vertriebs-G.M.B.H.
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 74 pp., 203: 159 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    A play in four acts by "Emil Bernhard" (1881-1948), which was the pen name for Emil Moses Cohn. He was a German rabbi, writer, and active Zionist. Cohn, who was born in Berlin, was the son of the pro-Herzl Zionist Bernhard Cohn. He received both a Jewish and Zionist education at home. As a student, he organized a Zionist student group together with J. L. Magnes, A. Biram, and others. In 1906 he was appointed prediger (preacher and teacher of religion) by the Jewish community in Berlin, but was forced to resign in 1907 because of his Zionist views. The resignation caused a scandal and gave rise to much polemical literature. After serving as rabbi in Kiel (1908–12) and in Essen (1912–25), he returned to Berlin. In 1939 he immigrated to the U.S. where he lived until his death. Cohn published plays (mostly under the pseudonym Emil Bernhard), some of which were performed in Germany and abroad. He is also the author of Der goyel : drame in finf akten (Berlin, 1925), Schattenliebe : vier Akte / (Berlin, 1930) Hotel Eden : ein Schauspiel in 15 Bildern (Berlin, 1931) and others. One of them, Brief des Uriah (1919), was performed by the Habimah theater. He also wrote poetry, ideological essays on Judaism and Zionism, a book entitled David Wolfsohn, Herzls Nachfolger (1939; Eng. tr. 1944), and a translation of Judah Halevi's Diwan into German. In the field of Zionism he was one of the editors of Zionistisches ABC Buch (1908) and published his Zionist and Jewish credo called Judentum, ein Aufruf der Zeit (1923, 19342). He also published Juedischer Kinderkalender (1928–31) and Juedischer Jugendkalender (1928–34).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Theater
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica