Lot 187
"Hebrew Spoken Here" - Six Records for Teaching Hebrew in Nazi Germany, 1934
"The Speech Machine as a Language Teacher, six records - Hebrew Spoken Here, according to the book Hebrew for Olim, by Rabbi Dr. Emil Cohen", edited by Asher [Oscar] Plevner. Stuttgart: Otto Sperling, [1934].
"The Speech Machine as a Language Teacher", a teaching set recorded and produced as part of the revival of Jewish education in Germany after the rise of the Nazi party to power. The initiator of the project, Asher Plevner, was impressed by the popular teaching booklet "Ivrit LeOlim" by the scholar and author Rabbi Emil Cohen, and turned to the owner of a records manufacturing company, Otto Sperling, who at the time produced series of records for learning languages. Sperling agreed to produce the records, and in May 1934, Asher Plevner, his brother Dov and his sister Helena, met in the studio of the "Avner" company and recorded the Hebrew talks for the study of the language.
The set includes: six records; six transcripts of the talks in Hebrew; five study booklets (out of six) with the talks in phonetic transcript in Latin characters and the meaning in German. Placed in an original box. One booklet and one printed card are missing.
Records: diameter 25 cm. Transcript booklet: 23 cm. Study booklets: 22.5 cm. Original cardboard box: 28X28 cm. Good overall condition. Wear. Stains, creases and small tears to margins of booklets and paper covers of records. A long tear at the margin of the first leaf of one of the booklets. Tears and defects to box.
Enclosed is the book: Deutsch, Neuhebräisch, Arabisch in lateinischen und hebräischen Lettern by Moses Jacobson. Berlin, 1935.
