{"product_id":"jewish-youth-magazine-judische-jugend-zeitschrift-fur-die-judische-jugend-osterreichs-nr-1-i-jahrg-nr-6-iii-jahrg","title":"[JEWISH YOUTH MAGAZINE.] Jüdische Jugend. Zeitschrift für die jüdische Jugend Österreichs. [Nr. 1. I. Jahrg.–Nr. 6. III. Jahrg.].","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eYouth Magazine for Viennese Jews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[JEWISH YOUTH MAGAZINE.]\u003c\/strong\u003e Jüdische Jugend. Zeitschrift für die jüdische Jugend Österreichs. [Nr. 1. I. Jahrg.–Nr. 6. III. Jahrg.]. \u003ci\u003eVienna: Victoria-Druckerei\u003c\/i\u003e. [September\/October 1935–June 1937.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty issues (of twenty-four?) bound in two volumes. Original wrappers printed in dark brown, bound together in contemporary half navy cloth with marbled sides, blue endpapers; small tear to upper joint of vol. II neatly repaired; browning to wrappers of a few 1936 issues, light toning throughout; else very well preserved; December 1935 issue with 5-Groschen stamp and postmark to title, address labels of Professor E.M. Klarmann to several issues (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwenty issues of this very rare Viennese magazine for Jewish youth, printed on the eve of the Anschluss and featuring contributions by the likes of Stefan Zweig, Chaim Bloch, and Chaim Nachman Bialik.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magazine was issued by the Jüdisch-Kultureller Elternbund (Jewish-Cultural Parents’ Association), established in 1934 as part of an initiative on the part of Jewish teachers to support Jewish schoolchildren in Vienna in religious and cultural matters. The association established a youth library, organised events and holiday celebrations, gave lectures, and arranged excursions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJüdische Jugend\u003c\/i\u003e provides an extraordinary glimpse of Jewish life in Vienna immediately before the Anschluss. It includes, \u003ci\u003einter alia\u003c\/i\u003e, book recommendations, a chess column profiling famous Jewish chess players, a ‘photo corner’ featuring reader submissions, and a column with photographs and political reports from Palestine, jokes and crosswords in Hebrew, a crafts section (with instructions for making wallet bindings, portable watercolour sets, and Purim masks), and articles on the history of the Jews of Split, Rembrandt’s Jewish subjects, Tomáš Masaryk, Ludwig Zamenhof (creator of Esperanto and author of the first Yiddish grammar), a life of Richard Beer-Hoffmann written on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, a Jewish institute for the blind, and much more. The inaugural issue (September\/October 1935) opens with a preface by David Feuchtwang, chief Rabbi of Vienna, who died the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are also contributions by student readers, including Elfriede Pick, then aged sixteen; due to Nazi intervention she would later be expelled from the University of Vienna after a single term studying mathematics and physics. \u003cstrong\u003eThe October 1936 issue features Stefan Zweig’s \u003ci\u003eDie Legende der dritten Taube\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Legend of the Third Dove\u003c\/i\u003e), an allegorical, anti-war story written during the First World War inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark\u003c\/strong\u003e: here, a third dove is sent out from the ark to find dry land, but instead of returning to the ark finds a peaceful spot and chooses to stay there. It is reproduced here with the permission of Dr Martha Hofmann, who had included the short story in her 1925\/26 \u003ci\u003eJüdischer Almanach auf das Jahr 5686\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary annual featuring contributions by the likes of Werfel and Schnitzler with illustrations by Floch, Chagall, and others. \u003cstrong\u003eAlso included is an extract from Chaim Bloch’s 1925 tale of the Golem of Prague (\u003ci\u003eDer Prager Golem\u003c\/i\u003e, here published as \u003ci\u003eGolem-Geschichten\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as the poem ‘Nach meinem Tode’ by Israel’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, from the 1922 collection \u003ci\u003eAusgewählte Gedichte\u003c\/i\u003e (translated into German by Ernst Müller).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magazine came under fire by the Stadtschulrat für Wien, the city’s educational authorities. Synagogue and school services were ‘jointly organised by the Jewish Community of Vienna and the Stadtschulrat, as with Christian denominations. What the Austrian school authorities demanded in these years was patriotism. In 1936, the Stadtschulrat refused permission to use the magazine \u003ci\u003eJüdische Jugend\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the Zionist Judisch-kultureller Elternbund, in religious instruction’ (Spevak, p. 604, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). The October 1936 issue features a brusque letter from Privy Councillor and State School Inspector Oskar Freund complaining that the preceding issue had advertised a lecture he was to give at the inauguration of Vienna’s Jewish Commercial school, noting that he had ‘expressly declined the invitation of the founder of the school […] citing its incompatibility with [his] official position’ (p. 7, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two bound volumes contain issues up to June 1937; the magazine seemingly ran until December 1937, a mere three months before the Anschluss. Although there is – likely deliberately – little explicit mention of mounting antisemitism in Austria, the March 1937 issue advertises the Victoria-Druckerei’s newly published work ‘\u003ci\u003eNicht nur die Juden geht es an\u003c\/i\u003e’ (\u003ci\u003eIt’s Not Just about the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e), a collection of articles by the Austrian-Jewish journalist and correspondent for the British Jewish Chronicle Bruno Heilig arguing that the Nazi persecution of the Jews would affect society as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: Several issues bear the printed address label or manuscript ownership inscription of Prof. Dr E.M. Klarmann of Gebhardtgasse 1\/14 in Vienna. Klarmann was the official distributor (and likely also the producer) of Haivri, a weekly instructive magazine in Hebrew featuring glossaries in four languages (\u003ci\u003eDie Stimme\u003c\/i\u003e, 17 January 1936). We have been able to find little other information about Klarmann, but he would have lived in the same building as the philologist Walter Otto, who had used his flat as a collection point for donations for the financial support of Else Lasker-Schüler \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1913. \u003cstrong\u003eThere is one article, on the Jews of Poland, by a Dr Moschéh Elijahu Klarmann (October 1936), who may be a relative of the Dr E.M. Klarmann who owned these copies, or they may be one and the same.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside continental Europe, we find copies of any issue at the National Library of Israel, Wiener Holocaust Library, and Leo Baeck Institute only, the latter seemingly in microform.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA full list of contents is available on request.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124996\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64528772759929,"sku":"2124996","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124996f.jpg?v=1789110349","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/jewish-youth-magazine-judische-jugend-zeitschrift-fur-die-judische-jugend-osterreichs-nr-1-i-jahrg-nr-6-iii-jahrg","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}