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1946ref. 349981946. First Edition. JUDAICA HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. Unser Welt Our World. Partial nearly complete run from 1946 Number 1 through 1951 Number 2. Munich and Paris: 1946-51. Folio earlier numbers 1946 Number 1 through 1948 Number 18 bound in half black cloth and boards; remaining numbers 1948 Number 19 through 1951 Number 2 unbound folded once as issued. $7500.Scarce nearly complete run of the earliest issues of the Zionist newspaper Unser Welt ÒOur WorldÓ the ÒNational Weekly for Jewry in EuropeÓ published in Munich just after World War II and the Holocaust.Unser Welt was a Zionist-oriented publication with a deep respect for the Revisionist wing of the Zionist movement with editorial offices in Munich and Paris. Initially for the first two numbers the newspaper was called Hamdina ""The State""; this collection contains both Numbers 1 and 2 of Hamdina all published under that name along with Number 1 of the newly titled Unser Welt all from 1946. By the late 1940s however Unser Welt's circulation reached several European nations besides Germany namely Switzerland France Austria Belgium Sweden and Italy and its sub-title proclaimed it to be the ""National Weekly for Jewry in Europe."" The very fact that Unser Welt sought to be the publication of European Jewry spoke volumes about a conscious decision of a number of Jews to remain in the continent where two-thirds of their brethren had been murdered. This collection includes from 1946 both Numbers 1 and 2 of Hamdina then of Unser Welt Numbers 1 5 8-15 18 20-21 23-30; from 1947 Numbers 31 33-45a 48-82; from 1948 Numbers 1-18 all of which are bound together in one folio volume. The collection also gathers from 1948 Numbers 19-49 51-62 65-69; from 1949 Numbers 3-13 15-17 20-30 35-42 44/45-46 49; from 1950 Numbers 1-50; and from 1951 Number 2. These are all unbound folded once as issued. Text in Yiddish with photographic and line illustrations. A few minor closed tears and mild edge-wear to unbound numbers. Exceptionally good condition. Scarce. hardcover books
1939231, [1] pages. 9.2" x 6.3". Waton (1871-1959) was a Jewish philosopher keenly interested in the works of Marx and Spinoza. In the Foreword, dated 1939, he states "I convinced myself that human society is irresistibly and inevitably moving towards state capitalism and fascism. Further reflection also convinced me that this social transformation would inevitably bring upon the Jews great suffering. How could the Jews face this world situation? This question occupied my mind for the last twelve years. At last I reached the conclusion which I embodied in a program for the Jews. When the Jews declared war against Nazi Germany and fascism (in 1933), I saw that as a suicidal policy. Thus passed more than five years of ever-increasing suffering for the Jews. When the situation became so grave that the Jews themselves began to realize the gravity of the situation, the Spinoza Institute of America asked me to formulate my program." On page 199 he adds "We have to face the fact that the Leader of the German people has no doubt in his mind that the Jewish problem is the centre of all problems, not merely in Germany, but in the world. It is useless to dismiss this as an illusion, because if it is, it demands explanation. But it is no illusion." Brilliant gilt lettering upon front board. Light external wear. Binding tight. Faint patches of soiling to boards. Occasional light pencil marginalia and underlining until page 21. Moderate age-toning to contents. It is left to readers to ponder the impact Waton's program could have had upon twentieth-century history. Book
1944Signed and inscribed by Jan Karski upon front free endpaper. Karski [1914-2000] recounts his experiences when his homeland of Poland was rent asunder by the joint Nazi and Soviet invasion of 1939, and his harrowing subsequent life as a member of the Polish underground, during which he was captured by the Gestapo and severely tortured. Provides a ghastly eyewitness account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, into which Karski was smuggled so his observations could be reported to the outside world. Firearms advocates will cringe at Karski's account of what happened after he and a large group of Polish soldiers handed over their weapons to their 'comrades' from the Soviet Union. In 2012 Karski was posthumously awarded America's highest civilan honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Obama. 391 pages. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A sound copy of this truly unforgettable WWII narrative. Laska 672, Kehr & Langmaid 5407, Weiner Library Catalogue Seven 997, Enser p.343. Book
