Lot 308
"Schlemiel" – Humorous Artistic Periodical – Issues 1-24 – Berlin, 1919-1920
Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor und Kunst [Schlemiel, Jewish paper for humor and art]. Berlin: Welt, 1919-1920. Issues 1-24 (one double issue, 19/20). German.
A volume containing issues 1-24 of the Jewish satiric periodical "Schlemiel", published in Berlin in 1903-1906 and then again in 1919-1920. Features poems and texts by Else Lasker-Schiller, Shalom Aleichem, Uriel Birnbaum, Max Yungman and others, accompanied by many humorous illustrations by artist Menachem Birenboim [Birenbaum] as well as illustrations by Uriel Birenbaum, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt and others.
322, [2] pp + [27] plates (advertisements for Jewish businesses in Berlin), 23.5 cm. Good. Several stains and small tears. Blemishes to binding.
