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1939réf. 43670Budapest: Pesti Lloyd-nyomada 1939. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio. 26pp. published unbound. Original cream stapled wraps with title printed in black to back cover protected by modern mylar. To the Honorable Upper and Lower House of the Parliament. Respectful petition of the representatives of the Hungarian Jewish community concerning "Bill No. 72. regarding the restriction of Jews in public and economic life". Official petition of the Hungarian Jews regarding the bill of the Second Anti-Jewish Law No. IV:1939. The Second Anti-Jewish Law was one of a series of anti-Jewish measures passed by the Hungarian Parliament between 1938 and 1941 and the first Hungarian law providing a "racial" definition of the Jewish status according to the Nuremberg Race Law of 1935. Besides of other severe deprivations it sets a ceiling of six percent reduced from twenty of Jews being allowed to work in various financial and commercial professions as well as industrial enterrises employing more than ten persons. It also excluded the Jews from state administrations and jurisdiction prohibited Jews from teaching high school reenacted the Numerus Clausus at universities and partly rescinded their right to vote. Bill No. 702 the Second Anti-Jewish Law was drafted by István Antal state secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Pál Teleki Minister of Religion and Education and was presented for debate before Parliament on December 23 1938. The petition aimed to sway Parliament to disapprove the law claiming it being unconstitutional and delinquent in view of legal equality human rights and the Divine Law and furthermore relinquishing social justice and threatening national unity the emancipation granted by the laws of 1849 and 1867 in short it was deemed to be against the national interest of Hungary. The petition was unsuccessful the bill was approved by Parliament and was signed into law on May 5 1939 effecting the Hungarian Jewry severely with more than 90 thousand Jews losing their jobs and thus lowering the living conditions of approximately 220000 people significantly. Braham R.: The Second Anti-Jewish Law in: The Politics of Genocide: Holocaust in Hungary New York Columbia University Press 1981 pp. 147-156. Scarce important historical document with institutional holdings recorded only in Hungary. Text in Hungarian with slight rubbing to covers. Else in very good condition. Pesti Lloyd-nyomada unknown
1938réf. 022704No Place: Candid Features Publisher 1938. Wraps. Fair. Small tabloid newspaper format. 24 pp. Black and white photos and illustrations. A work against anti-Semitism in the United States juxtaposing events in Germany and asking "What if Hitlerism Came to America" The work debunks commonly held stereotypes of Jewish people highlights their persecution through the centuries and mentions notable Jewish people including Einstein and Sarah Bernhardt. Currently held in 5 libraries worldwide. FAIR condition. Horizontal fold crease present with chipping and tattering along the crease on the cover. Heavy creasing and wrinkling to the corners. Moderate toning and minor soiling. Minor chipping and tearing along the edges. Paper rather brittle. Candid Features, Publisher unknown
1970réf. List3712United States 1970. 33 items: 28 postcards and five pamphlets. Generally excellent. A collection of postcards and pamphlets for hotels resorts and some planned neighborhoods around the US-mainly in New York New Jersey and Florida-with most advertising that they did not accept Jewish visitors. Many of the resorts' restrictions are stated implicitly advertising "restricted" "exclusive" or "carefully selected" clientele or mentioning their proximity to "Catholic and Other Christian Churches". Other postcards are explicit: the Marine Terrace Hotel in Miami advertises "Strictly Gentile Clientele" Mountain Lakes in Bethel New York is described as "a restricted Gentile Vacation Colony" and Awosting in New Jersey assures patrons that "The most careful Christian restriction insures the congenial atmosphere characteristic of the community." Pamphlets for Thendara Lodge and Locust Cottage both in New York state that they are "Gentiles Only"; and the collection includes a souvenir pamphlet for Mooseheart Illinois a planned community operated by the Loyal Order of Moose "an international fraternity restricted to members of the Caucasian or White race". The extent of discrimination against Jewish people inspired the publication of the Jewish Vacation Guide 1917 which documented hotels restaurants and services that were friendly to Jewish clients as the later Negro Motorist Green Book did for African Americans. The items in the collection come from twenty locations eighteen of which did not accept Jewish clients. The two postcards advertising resorts that explicitly catered to Jewish clientele come from Twin Pines in the Lake George region which advertises "Jewish American Cuisine" and Yarkony's Kosher Hotel at the Adler in Sharon Springs. These two hotels were part of the "Borscht Belt" an area of upstate New York that attracted Jewish vacationers mainly from the city. The area flourished between the 1920s and 1960s with hundreds of resorts offering Kosher food Shabbat and holiday services and entertainment. Of interest to historians of anti-Semitic discrimination in the US and of travel and recreation in the midcentury.
1777réf. ST20535-04La Haye The Hague but Geneva: Aux dépens des Libraries 1777. FIRST EDITION. 215 x 140 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". 1 p.l. 303 3 pp. Publisher's marbled paper wrappers flat spine edges untrimmed. A Large Paper Copy. Benesco 1860. Andrew R. Morehouse "The Voltaire Collection in the Rare Book Room" The Yale Library Gazette 17 no. 4 1943 p. 75. Paper wrappers a bit faded as expected slightly defective at corners and a little curled otherwise and perhaps even so A VERY FINE COPY--the text within immense margins entirely clean fresh and bright. This is a remarkable survival in its original wrappers of a work related to one of the most resonating controversies of Voltaire's life and writings--the question of his anti-Semitism. A giant of the Enlightenment and one of the greatest of French writers and philosophers Voltaire real name François-Marie Arouet 1694-1778 writes here in response to "Lettres de quelques Juifs portugais allemands et polonais à M. de Voltaire" a 1776 critique by Antoine Guénée objecting to the anti-Semitism especially as expressed within a commercial context in our author's "Dictionnaire Philosophique." Deeply philosophical and leavened with satire the 120 chapters of the seminal "Dictionnaire" were widely read much condemned and not infrequently burned as they challenged religious authority advocated for toleration and dealt with many social and political issues from an uncomfortable Enlightenment perspective. And there can be no doubt that Voltaire's "Dictionnaire" does in fact contain critical remarks about the Jews; at the same time the author's criticism is extended with equal warmth to organized religion in other forms. In the present response to Guénée Voltaire is nothing if not scathing which in the end works against him. As Voltaire scholar Andrew R. Morehouse wryly puts it the text here expands upon Voltaire's previous points in such a way as to "justify the accusation that he is cruelly anti-Semitic." This work is not exactly rare but it is very unusual to find it in original wrappers as here particularly in such fine condition. Aux dépens des Libraries unknown
1860réf. 535891860. Softcover. Good- to good condition. 1. Discrimination in Switzerland. Washington D.C. House of Representatives. 1860. Octavo. 101pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover. Collection of correspondence between US officials and Theodore S. Fay among others at the time secretary of the US legation in Bern Switzerland. In 1859 Fay had delivered a report to the Swiss Federal Council Memorandum concerning the admission of North American Israelites to settle in Switzerland that was important in the struggle for emancipation of Jews in Switzerland. It had provided an overview of discriminatory Swiss laws against Jews in Switzerland while going to great depth to refute arguments that supported these laws. As a result small steps were taken in the Swiss cantons contributing to the eventual emancipation of Jews in Switzerland in 1866. Missing wraps but for most of spine. Very lightly age-toned. 2. Address "To the President of the United States." Single light blue printed leaf. Not dated. Memorial of Subscribers of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania protesting against the Swiss laws discriminating against Jews in Switzerland. An attempt to influence the President to take steps to abolish the discrimination against Jews in Switzerland. Light wear along edges of leaf small chips and folded several times. Undated. 3. This Memorial. 1857. Printed Octavo circular 4pp. Protest addressed to the President of the United States against the Swiss for their restrictive laws against American Jews. Vigorous protest to President James Buchanan against blatant anti-Semitism in Switzerland. "It so happens that certain Cantons of the Swiss Confederation among which Basle and others have laws prohibiting Israelites from sojourning temporarily domiciliating or establishing themselves permanently. The treat. has clearly failed. for we are met by a dark age prescriptive law declaring us unworthy of participating in the rights of our fellow citizens on account of our professing the Israelitisch religion." This demand illustrates the disparity between the United States Constitution which protects freedom of religion and yet is not doing enough to protect these same freedoms for its citizens when they travel abroad. Signed by various Jewish petitioners including Isaac M. Wise of Ohio. Scarce: Singerman 1515 cites two other known copies of this pamphlet. With some wear along edges small chips and folded three times. Lightly age-toned. unknown
1965réf. 003265Isle of Man: Britons - Times Longman 1965. Good original wraps with the Britons Publishing Company label pasted over original publisher VERY SCARCE Attacks Jews as being in control of Bolshevism etc. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Britons - Times Longman paperback
réf. 500051London: Anglo-hebrew Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Anglo-hebrew Paperback
