Five issues of venomous antisemitic newspaper ‘La Libre Parole’ edited by antisemitic agitator journalist Édouard Drumont, founder of the Antisemitic League in France. Different months in the years 1896-1897.
* December 12, 1896 – On the title page is a cartoon mocking ‘The Wandering Jew’ with a distorted French caption mocking the Yiddish language of the Jews.
* December 26, 1896 – On the title page an antisemitic cartoon depicting different nationalities in stereotypical faces each of which rules a different country and in its face one can discern the characteristics of a member of the same nation. The accompanying antisemitic caption, after each one presents his controlled country of origin: “We are all Jews.”
* May 29, 1897 – On the title page is a large antisemitic cartoon depicting wounded and bloodthirsty Jews known as “Zi” (zid – Jew) who say in Yiddish ridiculous and distorted: “It is good to steal the Gentiles … and harm them … but if we killed them it would be Best”.
* June 12, 1897 – On the title page is an antisemitic cartoon in which a stereotypical Jewish guard is seen holding a gun in his hand to defend the ‘French Bank’, facing a French minister, and the antisemitic caption: “Our war front is well preserved.”
* July 31, 1897 – On the title page is a cartoon mocking ‘the young Jew Strauss who chose Senator La Seine’.
About La Libre Parole (“The Free Word”) See previous item.
Complete sheets, 38 cm. Very good condition.
