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Lot #    18126
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:03:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Gutachten der Sachverständigen über den ...
Author    Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger
City    Berlin
Publisher    Im Selbstverlag
Publication Date    1903
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    87 pp. 223:156 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy loose in later boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    Full title: Die Gutachten der Sachverständigen über den Konitzer Mord Full author: Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens.
          
Detailed
Description		    A work on the 20th-century blood libel that had occurred in Konitz (Pol. Chojnice)], a town in Poland, until 1918 in Germany. Although a few Jews probably lived and traded in Konitz from the middle of the 15th century, the first Jewish resident is mentioned in 1767. After Hardenberg's decree of 1812, a steady stream of Jewish emigrants came to the town (80 attained citizenship in 1813–50), and in 1856 the Jewish population totaled 429. On March 15, 1900, the dismembered body of Ernst Winter, aged 19, was found in the river. The police charged a number of Jews on flimsy and insubstantial grounds. The first defendant, Israelski, was acquitted, but the crime was defined as ritual murder. Anti-Semites accused the authorities of shielding Jewish suspects and anti-Jewish riots broke out; the synagogue was attacked, and widespread agitation and unrest shocked the world. Adolf Lewy and his son Moritz, butchers, were accused of the ritual murder of Winter on the prefabricated evidence of a petty thief, B. Masloff. Moritz was acquitted of the murder charge but sentenced to four years' imprisonment for denying that he was acquainted with the victim. The jury awarded Masloff the minimal sentence, one year, for perjury, and petitioned for his pardon. However, William II granted a pardon to Moritz but refused to give one to Masloff. The Jewish population of Konitz subsequently declined (many were economically ruined) to 257 in 1913. After World War I, when the town was annexed to Poland, the number of Jews declined further, to 110 in 1920.
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Germany:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
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Kind of Judaica