Аукцион Bidspirit | Felix Weltsch, Holocaust Survivor “Judentum

Felix Weltsch, Holocaust Survivor “Judentum und Nationalismus”, 1920, Berlin, in German. Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1920, 41 pp., 6 pp., soft cover, 22 x 14.5 cm. Condition: some wear to cover; brown fragile paper; chips to the first two leaves because of fragile paper. A short philosophical and political work in which the author attempts to reconcile the idea of national self-awareness with universal ethical values. The book is one of the early programmatic works of cultural Zionism. Felix Weltsch (1884-1964) born October 6, 1884, in Prague; studied law and philosophy at Charles University; one of the closest friends of Max Brod and Franz Kafka, and a member of the famous ”Prague Circle”; from 1919 to 1938, editor-in-chief of the Zionist newspaper Selbstwehr; in March 1939, left Prague on the last train together with Max Brod; after emigrating, lived in Jerusalem and worked at the National Library; died November 9, 1964. Felix Weltsch's best-known books: Anschauung und Begriff (1913, with Max Brod) Organische Demokratie (1918) Nationalismus und Judentum (1920) Gnade und Freiheit (1920) Zionismus als Weltanschauung (1925, with Max Brod) Judenfrage und Zionismus (1929) Antisemitismus als Völkerhysterie (1931) Rassentheorie und Judentum (1934) Das Raetsel des Lachens (1935) Das Wagnis der Mitte (1936) Natur, Moral und Politik (1950) Religion und Humor im Leben und Werk Franz Kafkas (1957). - Felix Weltsch, Holocaust Survivor “Judentum und Nationalismus”, 1920, Berlin, in German.