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Bidding Information
Lot #    4815
Auction End Date    6/10/2003 2:40:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    ``Autoemancipation!'' Mahnruf an seine
Title (Hebrew)    Stammesgenossen von einem russischen Juden
Author    Leo Pinsker (Achad Haam)
City    Berlin
Publisher    Judischer Verlag
Publication Date    1917
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   36 p. plus wrappers, quarto, 231:162 mm., usual browning.
          
Detailed
Description
   Pinsker's famous work in which he analyzed the psychological and social roots of anti-Semitism and called for the establishment of a Jewish national center. The book was intended to serve as a warning to his fellow Jews (Stammesgenossen) and was published anonymously, the author defining himself as "a Russian Jew." The book was written in a passionate style which forcefully expressed the author's deep anxiety for the fate of his people.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Philosophy
  
Characteristic
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica