Lot 620
Angstruf eines Israeliten – Pamphlet in German calling for the Complete Emancipation of Austrian Jewry – Vienna, 1848.
Angstruf eines Israeliten [A Jew’s distress call], by Bernard Mauthner [Vienna, 1848?]. German.
The pamphlet, which was written by Bernard Mauthner, an Austrian Jew, addresses the citizens of Austria (particularly its wealthy and influential Jews), calling upon them to work for the full emancipation of Austrian Jewry. It appears to have been written in 1848, under the influence of the European revolutions that became known as the Spring of Nations. On the cover page, Mauthner quotes a line from a poem by Schiller (Don Carlos, Act 3, Scene 10): "Der Bürger, den Sie für den Glauben verloren, Sire, war ihr bester" ("The honest burgher / For his faith exiled, was your noblest subject!").
[4] pp. (leaf folded in half). 22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases at the edges.
