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LOT 37:
Secrets of the Jewish cemetery in Prague - Prague, 1942
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Secrets of the Jewish cemetery in Prague - Prague, 1942
Tajemství židovského hřbitova v Praze - Secrets of the Jewish Cemetery in Prague by John Retcliffe (a pseudonym of Hermann Goedsche). ORBIS publishing, Prague, 1942. Czech.
An anti-Semitic libel about a secret conspiracy of 12 representatives of the tribes of Israel, who meet in the ancient cemetery of Prague near the tomb of the Maharal, to plan their plot to take over the world. Each head of a tribe comes from a different city in Europe - Budapest, Krakow, Lisbon, Paris, London, Prague, and more. The heads of the tribes divide the entire world's property between each tribe in advance, and even use the surnames of rich Jews around the world who are going to win the loot, and to be a central force in the action. The author puts in the mouths of the heads of the tribes sentences such as: "All the profits businesses must be in our hands, the trade in alcohol, oil, wool and grain, agriculture...". Also: "We must create access to all the state offices... We must enter all the jobs where there is real influence...". The writer describes in detail the "plan" which conspires to bring down the countries economically and transfer their property to the Jews. Also part of the plan is to undermine the validity of the Christian Church. After the tribes discover that the cemetery guard overheard their plan they quickly escape through the cemetery fence.
In the introduction to this edition, the publisher writes that the original is sold out in the bookstores, and that this is a special edition that comes out following a lot of information that has accumulated about the meeting place of the tribes, the Jewish cemetery in Prague. For this purpose, at the end of the book, he has included plates of photographs of the Maharal statue that he created by Ladislav Shalon in the house Prague City Hall and was placed there from 1917, the entrance gate to the Jewish City Hall in Prague with the Star of David at the top, the headstone of the Maharal, as well as various photographs of the headstones of famous Jews, leaders of the Prague communities for generations in the cemetery in Prague, mainly from the 17th century, and finally a photograph will be taken from the era of the Jews of Prague in a yellow star, in order to connect the ancient story to the time it was published, now during the height of World War II, to strengthen the anti-Semitic narrative in the present.
The author Hermann Goedsche - a famous German anti-Semitic writer [1815-1878] who composed the anti-Semitic libel in the German original under the name "Biaritz" (Berlin 1868) and which served as the basis for the anti-Semitic libel "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Until the First World War, his book did not have extensive moves, however, after the revolution in Russia and the defeat of Germany, the Plaster script gained wide circulation and translations into countless languages. In Germany, the book was one of the central texts used by the Nazis to indoctrinate the German public into the isolation and hatred of Jews.
39 p. [28 photo-plates], 19.5 cm. Good condition.
