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LOT 104:
Book of Poetry by the Austrian Jewish Poet Josef Kiss - Binding with Islamic Decorations. Budapest 1888
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Book of Poetry by the Austrian Jewish Poet Josef Kiss - Binding with Islamic Decorations. Budapest 1888
Book of Jewish poems by the Austrian poet Josef Kiss. Parchment binding with bucklesIslamic, decorations on the binding and among the leaves of the book [illustrations of mosques and Islamic architecture] which the poet used for camouflage at a time the authorities prohibited distribution of Jewish compositions. Budapest 1888, Hungarian.
The book opens with apparently neutral poems: "A Mindennapi Kenyerert" ("The Daily Bread"), "Ima" ("Devotions"), "Harmatert." Later on, there are Jewish poems about Zion with an illustration of the Western Wall, Chanukah, Purim and more. The design of the book as a whole is comparable to the look of a Islamic religious book.
127 pages. 16 cm. Metal buckles for closure (one is missing), overall very fine condition.
