Lot 17
Das Neue Ghetto – Herzl – First Hebrew Edition
HaGeto HaChadash - Das neue Ghetto, play in four acts, by Theodor Herzl, translated by Reuven Breinin. "Achiasaf" publishing, Warsaw, 1898.
First published in German in Die Welt. Location: Vienna, 1893. The play was written following the Dreyfus trial which Herzl surveyed as journalist. The play focuses on an assimilated Jewish lawyer who tries to break through the social ghetto enforced on western Jews, but he fails. The lawyer's death at the end of the play serves as a warning that the situation of western Jews is unbearable. 63 pages, 19.5 cm. Good condition, original binding. Stains and some wear to bindings borders.
