Jüdisches Adressbuch für Gross-Berlin [Jewish Directory (Address Book) for Greater Berlin]. Managing editor: H. Arnold. Berlin: Goedega Verlags-Gesellschaft, [1929]. German. A directory (address book) of the Jews of Berlin, published for the years 1929-30, and listing the names and personal details of over seventy thousand Jewish Berliners – roughly a third of Berlin's Jewish population at the time. Alphabetically arranged according to last name, giving last and first names, occupation or profession, and address. A small picture of a telephone receiver is added to indicate telephone owners. The address book includes advertisements for hundreds of Jewish companies and places of business in Berlin (some printed on colored paper). The last section of the book gives information regarding the Jewish community of Berlin (the educational system, welfare system, religious services, and more) and lists dozens of Jewish associations and organizations, grouped according to various categories: general associations, aid organizations, synagogue and community associations, youth organizations, professional organizations, cultural organizations, women's organizations, student organizations, Zionist organizations, sport leagues, and more. Even before it was printed, this book aroused a great deal of controversy among the Jews of Berlin. Some regarded its publication a provocative act that exposed the city's Jews to grave danger. In the introduction to this edition, the editors addressed the issue of the atmosphere in Berlin and attempted to refute their opponents' arguments: "There are of course Jews who object to a Jewish address book, since they are not interested in seeing themselves described as Jews in print. We do not consider such an objection to be valid. We know very well that the anti-Jewish movement nowadays has a clear tendency to identify any person with a Jewish-sounding name as Jewish […] the German Jews, in general, see themselves as a loyal organ of the German people […] they proved it during the World War, when tens of thousands sacrificed their lives for the German people and homeland." The printers of the present directory intended to publish a new directory once every two years, but only one more edition was published, in 1931, two years before the Nazis came to power. 496, [2] pp. + [5] advertisement plates. Approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Stains. Somewhat brittle paper. Tears, some open, mostly to edges of leaves (some mended). Strips of glued paper for reinforcement to length of one leaf (p. 9-10). One plate detached. Inked stamps. Notation in pen on front pastedown. Pen marks on some leaves. Binding boards stained and slightly worn. Spine restored.