Two anti-Semitic booklets depicting Jewish figures. Amsterdam and Berlin, second half of the 19th century.
1. Prentenboek, een ijverige hand vindt werk door 't gansche land [Album, a diligent hand finds work all over the country], by J. Schenkman. Published by G. Theod. Bom, Amsterdam, [ca. 1850]. Dutch.
A booklet by the Dutch author Jan Schenkman (1806-1863), portraying through illustrations and short poems different professionals. Among the figures in this booklet is also a Jewish rag vendor by the name of Levi, and the poem which accompanies the illustration introduces the Jew as a suffering person who wanders along lanes and channels but finds nothing of value.
[24] pp, 16.5 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves (lacking staples). Stains to spine and to inner margins of leaves (from the staples which originally held the leaves together). Tears and creases at margins. Dark stains in the beginning of the booklet.
2. Gewaltsachen; Eine Auswahl der besten jüdischen Anekdoten [Horrible deeds, selection of Jewish jokes], illustrations by Wilhelm Scholz. Published by A. Hofmann & Comp, Berlin, [ca.1870s or 1880s]. German.
A booklet with Jewish jokes. The jokes are accompanied by anti-Semitic illustrations by Wilhelm Scholz (1824-1893), German painter and caricaturist, mainly known for his illustrations of Bismark. Six more plates with caricatures and short texts are bound at the end of the booklet (with no reference to Jews).
88 pp, [6] plates, 19 cm. Fair condition. Four last plates are detached. Numerous stains. Contemporary cardboard binding, with part of the original cover pasted on it. Binding stained.
Both booklets are not in NLI.