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Lot 145

Booklet with Anti-Semitic Poems by Itzig Feitel Stern – Munich, 1827 – Print

Gedichter vun dien grausse Lamden der Jüdischkeit, by Itzig Feitel Stern. Munich, 1827. German.
Itzig Feitel Stern was the pseudonym of Christian writer Heinrich Holzschuher, who used it to sign some of his anti-Semitic. His books introduced dialogues, stories and poems that were written in distorted German, in order to imitate and mock the way Jews spoke.
This booklet contains six poems, accompanied by a folded printed plate with a dozen of illustrations (titled "Der Rekrute" – "The Recruit").
24 pp + [1] folded plate, 19 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and tears to margins. Blank paper cover.
This edition is not in OCLC.