Die Jungen vom “Gush EIN JUDISCHES JUGENDBUCH” – The Boys from the “Gush”, a book for Jewish youth by Bernard Gelbart. published by “Kedem”, Berlin, 1936 – first edition. German. On the protective page is the signature of the owner and stamp of Hans Finn – apparently the copy of the Berlin-born German Jewish photographer Hans Chaim Finn (1916-1978 Finn immigrated to Israel in 1938, from his famous photographs is the Declaration of Israel’s Independence ceremony).
The story of the adventures of a group of Jewish boys in various German cities who build a camp that serves as their home. The author writes that he searched the Jewish bookshelf for the vast variety of books available, and found that all Jewish books were “serious”. He was looking for a book about the mischiefs of Jewish children and their cheerful lives, and since he couldn’t find one, he decided to write one himself.
125 p. 20 cm. Stains on many pages of the book. Light tears on the spine. Good – Moderate Condition.
