Аукцион Bidspirit | Worte am Wege. Poetry. Herausgegeben

Worte am Wege. Poetry. Herausgegeben fuer den Bund Deutsch-Juedischer Jugend, 1st and only ed., 1935, in German. Materialamt. Philo Verlag und Buchhandlung GmbH, 1935, 24 pages, soft cover, 21 x 15 cm. Cover detached with some stains, chips to edges. The Federation of German-Jewish Youth (BDJJ) was a Jewish youth organization in Germany. It was founded in December 1933. Its aim was to provide children and young people with opportunities for social interaction, hiking, and learning about Jewish culture. The organization held non-Zionist views. A literary almanac of the youth movement, published two years after the Nazis came to power, and therefore only a very small number of copies survive. It contains poems and short texts reflecting the spiritual life of German-Jewish youth amidst increasing persecution. Contributors listed on the last page (rear cover): Guenter Friedländer (1914-1996), a figure in the German-Jewish youth movement. After emigrating, he lived in the United States and left behind memoirs and materials on the history of Jewish youth in Germany. Ruth Hirsch, a member of the Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend movement, known primarily for her contributions to youth publications of the 1930s. Heinz Kellermann, one of the young authors of the anthology. Paul Yogi Mayer (1910-2005), one of the most famous representatives of the German-Jewish youth movement. He led the Blaue Schar youth group and later emigrated to the United States, where he became a historian and professor. Kurt Julius Riegner (1912-1995) was a lawyer, diplomat, and public figure. He is world-famous for being the first to provide the Allies with reliable information about the plan to exterminate European Jews in 1942 (the so-called ”Riegner Telegram”). After the war, he served as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress. Erich Stern was a member of the youth movement; Julius Stern was one of the compilers and authors. - Worte am Wege. Poetry. Herausgegeben fuer den Bund Deutsch-Juedischer Jugend, 1st and only ed., 1935, in German.