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Lot #
17443
Auction End Date
3/13/2007 12:58:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Jüdisches Liederbuch
Author
Zionistischen Ortsgruppe: Gotha
City
Gotha
Publisher
J. Ellendmann
Publication Date
1920
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
19, 26, 7, 24, 7-11pp., 177:130 pp., Light age staining. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards, rubbed.
Detailed
Description
A volume of Jewish songs, including some in Hebrew, and some translations of Hebrew songs. This volume was put out by the Zionist local group in Gotha, a city in Thuringia, Germany. Jews from Gotha are mentioned in Cologne in 1250 and later in Erfurt. Eight members of the community were killed in connection with a blood libel in Weissensee in 1303. The community suffered during the Black Death persecutions (1349) and again in 1391. Though the community disappeared after the persecutions of 1459–60, a mikveh is mentioned in 1564 and 1614. Until 1848 no Jews were allowed to live in the duchy of Gotha but restricted trading was permitted. The community formed after 1848 increased from 95 in 1872/3, to 236 in 1880, and 372 in 1910 (0.9% of the total population). A synagogue was built in 1903. In 1932 the prosperous community of 350 members maintained a synagogue, school, cemetery, library, and six social and charitable organizations. On Nov. 10, 1938, the synagogue was burned down and 28 men of the community were sent to Buchenwald. The 80 remaining Jews had been deported by 1939. The community was not reestablished after World War II.
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Description
Source: EJ
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Music:
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Other:
Zionism
Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German, Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
