Auction 11 Eretz Israel, settlement, anti-Semitism, Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita, postcards and photographs, Judaica - Books, Rabbinical Letters, Objects
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May 24, 2021
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LOT 50:

"Levi's Song" - an antisemitic children's book with many illustrations. Düsseldorf, 1933


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"Levi's Song" - an antisemitic children's book with many illustrations. Düsseldorf, 1933


Das Lied vom Levi ["Levi's Song"], an antisemitic children's book by Dr. Eduard Schwechten. Accompanied by 51 illustrations by Siegfried Horn, published by J. Knippenberg, Düsseldorf, 1933. German. A plot story that drips venomous anti-Semitism throughout, and introduces the average German, the so-called typical Jew, who is dangerous to German society.


The book written in the form of a rhyming poem describes a boy named 'Levi' who was born in Germany to a Jewish family who came with the Jewish waves of immigration, and characteristic the typical Jew. As a baby he presented to German citizens who find deformities in the shape of his face ['Crooked nose, calf's foot, salty lips, smells bad ...'], The boy Levy is growing up, and from an early age he already understands the capital market and leaves the bosom of his Jewish family towards financial success in the German public. When Levy becomes a boy, he shows traits of greed and he tries his relationship with a 'pure' Aryan German girl, but she recognizes from his tendons and the shape of his face the fact that he is a strange and greedy foreign planter and runs away from him. At this point the narrator stops the plot and goes on to describe the inferiority of the Jewish race against the Aryan race, and goes on to describe the disastrous result of Weld being mated between Aryan and Jew in the form of a distorted and damaged offspring born from such mating (Accompanied by harsh antisemitic illustrations). The author then continues the plot and describes how Levy became a real gentleman, and how his house is filled with property he fraudulently obtained from the German people, the Jews make millions in the blink of an eye at the expense of completely disintegrating countries! Returning to the plot, the writer describes the misfortune of the Germans who bought goods from Levi and after a while it became clear that he sold them type damaged goods under the guise of Excellent merchandise. (The author describes the 'wandering Jew' as having no rest from getting more and more goods and selling fraudulently, and how he deceives the German - sells him a crop in the heat and promises that no storm will come soon, the German loses all his fortune when storm and rain ruined his field, And the Jew is unwilling to give him his money back. The Jew got rich and the German became poor). 

Finally, a 'savior' arises in the form of an Aryan German who calls on his people to put an end to the Jewish antics, and to cleanse Germany of the Jews from end to end. "Support German trade, the honor of the industrious Germans will return to them, we will be free from the lice plague of the Jews as in the days of the early days ... Throw the Jews out!" (At this point, many cartoons appear depicting the overthrow of the Jew and his defeat). The story ends with a few passages in rhymes praising hatred of the Jew, and that the redemption of the peoples will not come as long as the Norse peoples are under Jewish control from within. At the end of the story there is a painting of a typical Aryan waving his sword, and stepping on the 'Jewish snake' with his foot.


In the introduction to the book about the author and about the book, which was written by Dr. Hermann Bartmann. He writes that the author had direct contact with Jewish merchants, and that he knew their character well, and according to his acquaintance with them he wrote the story, adding antisemitic hate words that today (things were written in 1933) When the German economy was controlled by the Jews, it was important that the words of "Levi's Song", originally written in 1896, penetrate into the German population until Germany became the property of the Germans only.


See also Holocaust Museum in Washington Record No. 2016.184.856.


[32] pages, 19.5 cm. On the page behind the cover is a commercial paper label of the store where the booklet was first purchased in Nuremberg. Good condition.