Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Parodiee, Gedichtches und prousaische Uffsätz (Parody, Poems and Prosaic Compositions)

Speyer: J. F Kranzbühler senior, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. (10) 124 (2)pp. Bound in black paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and ruling on red labels of spine; retaining original tan wraps with black lettering and decorative border. Stiff black glossy endpapers. Engraved frontispiece by F. C. Schwaab, with captions and title line in German dialect, Yiddish (in Hebrew typeface) and German. Dedicated to Itzig Veitel Stern (Heinrich Holzschuber*).

The dialect presented in this publication is spoken in the area around Speyer, near Heidelberg, slightly different than the dialect spoken in other parts of Germany. The words are printed as they are pronounced (Preface). The collection of poems include various pieces, parodies of Schiller's and Bürger's writings as well as the author's poems, a play and a travelog.

Gilardone was a German poet, nephew of Friedrich Müller, known as Maler Müller. He was proficient in Lotegorisch or Lekoudesh, used as a trading language in Palatine. The language was a variant of Rotwelsch, a secret language based on a mix of Yiddish, Hebrew and German. This set him apart from Gilardone from the other native poets. His work was often attributed to the Yiddish literature. Today only fragments may be understood but at the time Gilardone had a wide readership in the Palatine. This title was one of three titles in Lekoudesh. Although they were very much like his German publications, these three titles were not only specific and humorous but dealt with the life and customs of his Jewish countrymen. Four OCLC entries.

Text in Lekoudesh. Binding with some light scuffing along edges, including spine, less on boards. Small numbered (4871) of Paul Wallich pasted to inside front cover. Original wraps with light staining and age-toned with small tape reinforcement on verso and Berlin dealer plat at upper foredge corner. Back cover age-toned. Generally age-toned, including frontispiece and some light fraying along uncut bottom and foredge. Some foxing of block. Good- to good condition. Item #49839

* Heinrich Holzschuber: "Itzig Veitel Stern" is the pseudonym of the Christian author Heinrich Holzschuber, who signed several of his anti-Semitic essays using this fictitious Jewish name. The book is written in faulty German, intending to imitate and ridicule the Jewish manner of speech. Holzschuber wrote a number of humorous caricatures on Jewish culture under his Jewish pseudonym and Gilardone was inspired by Stern's work though not known as much or as popular.

Price: $2,000.00

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