Rot und Hoffnung Gedicht sammlung für jüdische Schulen Herausgegeben von Joseph Feiner Elias Gut Theodor Rothschild - A collection of distress and hope poems for Jewish schools, edited by Joseph Feiner, Elias Gut, and Theodor Rothschild - poems for Jewish schools. Leipzig, 1936 - first edition. German.
A compilation of poems released in Leipzig at a time when German antisemitism was rampant. The poems were meant to inspire hope in the hearts of Jewish students in schools, who were already being discriminated against. The poems cover biblical heroes, yearning for freedom, "Israel in exile, " Hanukkah songs about the bravery of the Maccabees, songs of encouragement, and many more.
How much these poems were essential for children in Germany at that time one could learn from the testimony of Ze'ev Boxbaum, who described the atmosphere in Leipzig in 1936 after the Nazis rose to power when he was a 14 year-old boy. "I remember quite a bit from that time. Firstly, I can talk about the impression that stayed with me, the overall impression that remained with me from that period. I have the impression of the rise of the Nazis, in October 1936, of our family gathering in our apartment. My late mother had many brothers and sisters, they were there. Most of them were in Leipzig, some of the family remained in Galicia, in Galicia - Western Galicia. My father was in Dubno. My brother and sister were in Leipzig. They gathered, and I was then an 11-year-old child, I remember the gathering of the entire family, they were very worried and whispered, I still didn't understand all the implications that came with Hitler's rise. Later on, I remember sitting on Friday evening, on Shabbat, it was usually Friday evening, sitting by the Shabbat table, and the Nazi period had already begun after 1933. I still hear today, they started to parade in the street, intentionally with a truck full of what's called the stormtroopers (STURM ABTEILUNG, S.A), cars, shouting in unison "Germany awake" (Deutschland erwache), "Jews perish" (Juda veratten), and that's what stayed with me, it's the memory that remained with me." (Boxbaum hid in a bunker in the Netherlands during the war years, after being discovered he found hiding in an agricultural village, and with fake aryan papers he received from resistance fighters he lived under false identity until the release by the British. He immigrated to Israel on the "Tel Hai" ship in 1946).
Extremely rare. Not found in the WorldCat library catalog.
116 p. Original cloth covered cardboard binding. Minor stains on the cover. Good - very good condition.
