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Jewish Address Book for Greater Berlin 1929/1930 - the first and rare edition
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Jewish Address Book for Greater Berlin 1929/1930 - the first and rare edition
JUDISCHES ADRESSBUCH FUR GROSS-BERLIN- Augabe 1929/1930 - Address Book of the Berlin Jews - August 1929/1930 - Published by Goedega verlag-Gesellschaft m. b. h. BERLIN. Editor-in-Chief: H. Arnold. First edition of the 'Berlin Jewish Addresses Book' - extremely rare.
The Jewish Address Book is arranged by surnames in order A and B and unites over seventy thousand Berlin Jews (about a third of Berlin's Jews in this period - for example we find the Goldschmidt, Danziger, Adler, Rosenberg, Lau, and others), with their addresses and professions. Next to the Jews who have a telephone set is a small illustration of a telephone earpiece. The guide accompanies advertisements for hundreds of businesses and companies of Jews in Berlin, and of products manufactured by Jews.
The introduction to the Address guide shows the great courage of the publisher in publishing a Jewish guide of this type in Berlin, when hatred and anti-Semitism towards the Jews were at their peak, and many Jews opposed this kind of initiative that might increase anti-Semitism. The publisher writes in response that a third of German Jewry is now scattered in Greater Berlin, and the number of Jews there as of 1929 is 200,000, because many of the provincial Jews migrated to Greater Berlin after the First World War. In this situation, Berlin Jewry lacks a unifying power, and the Jews of Berlin lack a central point. And this disadvantage he came to fill in the book of addresses before us which gives a common stage to all the Jews of Berlin wherever they are. He also adds that the opposition to the publication of the guide came from assimilated Jews, who intended to deny everything Jewish in origin, and that there is nothing to fear of, because the Jews' loyalty to Germany was unquestionable and they proved it in World War I when many Jewish soldiers fought alongside Germans for Germany. .
The plan was to publish a similar guide once every two years, but in fact the guide was reprinted only once more in 1931, before the Nazi Party came to power.
496, [2] p. + [5] Advertisement boards. 30 cm. Stains and wear on cover, slight tears on first pages. Good condition.
