Les Juifs, A Journal Devoted to the Condition of the Jews – Paris, 1933 – Many Pictures / Essays about the Rise of ...

Les Juifs, A Journal Devoted to the Condition of the Jews – Paris, 1933 – Many Pictures / Essays about the Rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, Albert Einstein's Open Letter, and More
Témoignages de Notre Temps [Contemporary Accounts], Issue No. 2, Les juifs [The Jews]. Paris: Société anonyme les illustrés français, 1933. French.
The issue, which was published upon Hitler's rise to power and the spread of anti-Semitism throughout Europe, offers a comprehensive assessment of Jewish life all over the world. The issue contains hundreds of pictures (including photographs by Helmar Lerski) that are divided by various aspects of the Jewish people's culture and day-to-day life, together with articles and essays: synagogues and study halls; books and Judaica; Jews in science, the arts and sports; Jews in the army and the financial world; Jewish nomads; Jewish communities in Arab countries, America, Poland, and France, and more. Two chapters are devoted to the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, offer a disturbing picture of the humiliations, persecutions, and pogroms in Germany and Ukraine. The issue closes with an exposition of Jewish life being built and developed in Palestine, with pictures of Zionist leaders, portraits of Jews in Palestine, pictures of streets, buildings, and fields, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, of settlers at their work, and farming the soil.
Among the various chapters are several essays, surveys, and open letters by influential Jews throughout the world, including Albert Einstein, Sholem Asch, Chaim Weizmann, and Rabbi Israël Lévi, Chief Rabbi of France.
105, [1] pp., approx. 30 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Minor tears on the first leaf.