A Question of Honor - A Tragedy In the Present Day. In Four Acts - Translated by Mary J Safford
by JUDAICA - MAX NORDAU
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
Boston: John W. Luce & Co, 1907. First American Edition. Signed by Max Nordau with a revealing inscription dealing with anti-Semitism: “This play is called Doctor Kohn in the German original. The American editor insisted upon the change of title, alleging, an outspoken Jewish name would have a repulsing effect on the American reader and buyer. This shows remarkably an American publishers judgment of the degree of racial prejudice among his countrymen. Paris, May 3d, 1909, Dr. M. Nordau.” Max Nordau was a Hungarian-born doctor who settled in Paris in 1880, where he because a best-selling author, not for his controversial works of social and artistic criticism, and was a co-founder with Theodore Herzl of the Zionist Movement. Nordau helped draft the Basle Program at the first Zionist Congress in 1897, and played a major role in subsequent congresses. This book is the first translation in English which was originally published in German in 1898, and it concerns the question of intermarriage of Jews and Christians. Bookplate of writer Stephen Caplin. Very good plus to near fine copy in decorated gilt-stamped cloth. A remarkable copy.
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- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16003J
- Title
- A Question of Honor - A Tragedy In the Present Day. In Four Acts - Translated by Mary J Safford
- Author
- JUDAICA - MAX NORDAU
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John W. Luce & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1907
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