Judaica: Karl Emil Franzos, The Jews of Barnow 1883

Description: The Jew of Barnow: Stories by Karl Emil Franzos. Translated from German by M.W. MacDowall. Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York, in 1883. First American Edition. Hardcover, 334 pages. Condition is used as shown. The covers are discolored or stained in places as shown in photos. There is a bookplate (Elliott J. Brill) inside the front cover. The half-title page has come loose but is still present as shown in photo. The interior pages are tanned around the edges and the spine is splitting in places. Aside from browning, the interior pages are clean and have no pen/pencil notations or dog-ears. Franzos wrote these stories early in his career, mostly while he was a university student. They were set in the Podolian Ghetto in southwestern Ukraine; formerly a region of southeastern Poland, which became part of Russia in 1793. Karl Emil Franzos (25 October 1848 – 28 January 1904) was a popular Austrian novelist of the late 19th century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of Galicia, Podolia and Bukovina, now largely in western Ukraine, where the Habsburg and Russian empires met. This area became so closely associated with his name that one critic called it "Franzos country". A number of his books were translated into English, and Gladstone is said to have been among his admirers. The main focus of Franzos' writing was the relationships between the different nationalities of the region—Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Germans and Jews—and his sympathies clearly lay with the oppressed groups, in particular the Ukrainian peasants and shtetl Jews. Barnet Phillips (1827-1905), a founder of the American Jewish Historical Society, observed in the Preface to this edition of The Jews of Barnow: "To the American Jew, The Jews of Barnow shows very clearly a great many things he may have been ignorant about. Jews who came to this country fifty years since ... are prone to forget their early surroundings, or hesitate to tell their American children of that bigotry which existed in their European birth-places." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our father was a bibliophile who collected rare books, letters, and ephemera for more than 60 years. For now and into the foreseeable future, we will be listing rare paper items from his estate. Take a look at all our items for sale. We combine shipping upon request. Please LET US KNOW if you’ve purchased multiple items so we can combine.

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