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Lot #    19523
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 10:38:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Komodie des Lebens
Author    [Signed Copy] Benjamin Korber
City    Leipzig-Raschwitz
Publisher    Bruno Volger Verlagsbuchhandlung
Publication Date    1912
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 88 pp., 190:130 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound , original wrappers detached and chipped.
          
Paragraph 1    The subtitle of this play is: Schicksalstragodie in 5 Akten (the tragedy of fate in 5 acts).

This copy is signed by the author with a special dedication to Esther Kahn.
          
Detailed
Description		    This work is not listed in any of the major library collections. The published, Bruno Volger, is listed in various years with locations such as Leipzig-Gohlis and Leipzig-Raschwitz (particularly in 1911-1912). Raschwitz seems to be an area slightly northwest of the city of Leipzig and perhaps was one of the locations where Bruno Volger had a publishing operation.
          
Paragraph 2    The only time a Benjamin Korber seems to be mentioned is a report of the first important trial against the Astors, in 1929, a rabbi named Benjamin Korber came to the USA with very valuable documents, to his own saying from the original German branch of the Emerick family. He asked Calvin I. Hoy, one of the lawyers of the Emericks, $10,000 for the documents. When he refused to pay, Korber is said to have offered the documents to the Astors. From there, the rabbi and the documents are untracable. It is said, however, that Korber returned to Europe with two suitcases full of money... As the story goes, he obtained even more documents, but he was killed by the Germans in the last World War. A verdict in this case would be concerned with a vast amount of money. In 1928, the Astor property (in New York only) was estimated at 300,000,000 dollar. It is unlikely, however, that new information to open the case is found.
          
Reference
Description		    http://emmerichnet.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=67
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Autographed:    Checked
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica