Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Description of the Trial of a Criminal Band Led by a Jew – Germany, 1737 – Engravings
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Entdeckter Jüdischer Baldober, oder Sachsen-Coburgische acta criminalia, Paul Nicolaus Einert. Coburg: Steinmarck, 1737. German.
"Jewish Bandleader Captured", book by Paul Nicolaus Einert (published anonymously).
Includes three engraved plates, two of which show handcuffed Jewish criminals: Mendel Carbe and Hoyum Moyses.
The author Einert headed the investigation leading to the arrest of a band of robbers, most of whose members were Jews, captured in the 1730s in Coburg in Bavaria, Germany.
The bandleader ("Baldober") was the Jew Mendel Garbe or Carben, following whose arrest many other band members were captured, almost all of them Jewish. The band was responsible for a long series of robberies in various parts of the country. After the investigation was completed and the band members convicted, Einert published this book with the aim of "exposing many heretofore unknown crimes and robberies carried out by Jews". Einert used the affair to disseminate a book of anti-Semitic accusations based by two assumptions: first, that solidarity exists between all Jews, whether criminal or not, making the entire Jewish people accomplices to crime; second, that the motivation of Jewish criminals to commit crimes is not just greed and the desire for profit, but also the desire to harm Christians and Christianity.
Bound together with the book are:
1. Acten-mässige designation derer von einer diebischen Juden-bande… Frankfurt: Jaeger, [1734?]. Einert's previous book, also published following the completion of the investigation of Mendel Garbe and his band. Third edition, expanded.
2. Des berüchtigten Spitz-Buben in London, John Sheppards, lasterhafftes Leben und schändliches Ende. No publisher or place of publication indicated, 1725. German translation of the autobiography of famous British criminal John (Jack) Sheppard, executed in 1724 after escaping from prison four times and becoming a hero of the lower classes in Britain. Title page shows an engraved portrait of Sheppard in prison.
591, 40, 24, 38 pp. 21 cm. Very good condition. Open tear to title page, no damage to text. Binding from the period, with vellum spine and corners, slightly worn and rubbed.
"Jewish Bandleader Captured", book by Paul Nicolaus Einert (published anonymously).
Includes three engraved plates, two of which show handcuffed Jewish criminals: Mendel Carbe and Hoyum Moyses.
The author Einert headed the investigation leading to the arrest of a band of robbers, most of whose members were Jews, captured in the 1730s in Coburg in Bavaria, Germany.
The bandleader ("Baldober") was the Jew Mendel Garbe or Carben, following whose arrest many other band members were captured, almost all of them Jewish. The band was responsible for a long series of robberies in various parts of the country. After the investigation was completed and the band members convicted, Einert published this book with the aim of "exposing many heretofore unknown crimes and robberies carried out by Jews". Einert used the affair to disseminate a book of anti-Semitic accusations based by two assumptions: first, that solidarity exists between all Jews, whether criminal or not, making the entire Jewish people accomplices to crime; second, that the motivation of Jewish criminals to commit crimes is not just greed and the desire for profit, but also the desire to harm Christians and Christianity.
Bound together with the book are:
1. Acten-mässige designation derer von einer diebischen Juden-bande… Frankfurt: Jaeger, [1734?]. Einert's previous book, also published following the completion of the investigation of Mendel Garbe and his band. Third edition, expanded.
2. Des berüchtigten Spitz-Buben in London, John Sheppards, lasterhafftes Leben und schändliches Ende. No publisher or place of publication indicated, 1725. German translation of the autobiography of famous British criminal John (Jack) Sheppard, executed in 1724 after escaping from prison four times and becoming a hero of the lower classes in Britain. Title page shows an engraved portrait of Sheppard in prison.
591, 40, 24, 38 pp. 21 cm. Very good condition. Open tear to title page, no damage to text. Binding from the period, with vellum spine and corners, slightly worn and rubbed.