Auction 17 -  Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita

"Four-Voice Humorous Scene" - Anti-Semitic Musical Composition, Leipzig, 1875

Opening: $300
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
Pinkeles, Jeiteles, Isaak Scholem und Moses Hersch. Humoristische Scene in Form eines Quodlibets fֳ¼r vier Mֳ₪nnerstimmen mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, von Emil Neumann [Pinkeles, Yeteles. Isac Shulem and Moses Hersch, four-voice humorous scene with piano-forte, by Emil Neumann]. Leipzig: Rob. Forberg, Publishing, [ca.1875].
Set of booklets for a theatrical show of this composition, with anti-Semitic characteristics, "Polnisches Juden-Quartett" [Polish Jews Quartet]. The set consists of five booklets: a large booklet of music notes and four additional ones for each of the singers. With direction comments and humorous lyric texts in Yiddish-Deitsch, in a German-Ashkenazi accent mocking the Jews who ask to approach German girls, and discuss between themselves their cynical ideas about politics, their relations with gentiles, and other topics. On the cover of the large booklet and on its title page is an illustration of the four Jews in lithographic printing (see photo). 19; 8; 8; 8; 7 pp, 33 cm; 28 cm. Fair-good condition. Creases, wear and staining, minor tears, some restored. Ownership ink stamps.
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita