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"Schlemiel" – Paper for Humor and Art – Berlin, 1919-1920

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Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor und Kunst [Schlemiel, Jewish paper for humor and art]. Berlin: Welt, 1919-1920. Issues 1-24.
Bound volume compiling 24 issues of the satiric Jewish periodical "Schlemiel", published in Berlin during the years 1903-1906 and resumed in 1919-1920.
The issues, printed on thick paper, feature poems and texts by Else Lasker-Schiller, Sholem Aleichem, Uriel Birenbaum, Max Yungman and others, with numerous humoristic illustrations by the artist Menachem Birenboim [Birenbaum] as well as illustrations by Uriel Birenbaum, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt and others.
322, [2] pp, 25 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Binding with leather spine.
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