Das neue Ghetto ["HaGeto HaChadash"], play in four acts, by Theodor Herzl, translated from Ashkenazic into Hebrew by Reuven Breinin. Warsaw: "Achiasaf", 1898. 1st edition.
First published in German in Die Welt. Location: Vienna, 1893. The play was written following the Dreyfus trial which Herzl surveyed as a journalist. The play focuses on an assimilated Jewish lawyer who tries to break through the social ghetto enforced on Western Jews, but he fails. The lawyer's death at the end of the play serves as a warning that the situation of Western Jews is unbearable. 63 pp, 19.5 cm. Good condition, Original binding. Stains and some wear to binding's margin. Non-original foresatz leaves.