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, Myerson, Abraham / Goldberg, Isaac. The German Jew. His Share in Modern Culture. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, stated First Edition, xii, 161, ix (index), worn and badly chipped dust-jacket missing a large 6x6cm triangle at top of front panel taking part of the title, good yellow cloth, one corner lightly bumped, bottom foredge scuffed. INSCRIBED on front endpaper: For / Bernice + Eddie / with the collaborative / compliments of the / authors / Abraham Myerson / and / Ike / 5-26-1933. CONTENTS: Preface - The New Anti-Semitism - The Judaeo-Christian Dilemma - The Comparative Evaluation of Genius - Medicine - Physics, Mathematical Physics, Chemistry - Philosophy, Mathematics - Music and Art - Literature, Journalism - Drama and Stage, Cinema - Conclusions - Index. - NOTE: chapters begin with historical or sociological overview of the field, followed by biographical discussions of great Jewish figures, along with occasional references to anti-semitic critics. The author's concepts are condensed on the last two pages: the "paranoid, medieval Hitler", whose inferiority complex has been used to infect an entire nation, using the psychology of defeat to stamp the Jews as scapegoats. The enemies of the Jews are also enemies of the spirit of modernity (Renan). The concluding statement makes "liberty" the main issue of events: "We write the final pages of this little book on May 10, 1933, the day devoted by Hiterlism to the public burning of Jewish books and of other volumes proclaiming the spirit of liberation. From these ashes, as from the ashes of old, the Jew - the Phoenix of peoples - will arise. These are but the embers of an ancient holocaust. Together with the silenced Germans who regard this persecution with shame we watch the inglorious flames. Together with them we know that this is not only a conflagration of Jewish books; on these pyres burn, too, the lost liberties of the German people. And that liberty, too, will rise, Phoenix-like, from these ashes…" (161). Seller Inventory # 36085
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