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"Schlemiel" - Humoristic and Artistic Periodical - 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 (one double issue, 19/20).
A bound volume 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 the artist Menachem Birenboim [Birenbaum] as well as illustrations by Uriel Birenbaum, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt and others.
VII, [1], 322, [2], 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Some tears. Stains (mostly to binding). Binding torn and almost entirely detached. Detached leaves and signatures. Defects to binding.
Research and Bibliography books, Jewish Communities
Research and Bibliography books, Jewish Communities