Original boards with original dust jacket. 8vo. Pages 11-77; 21 cm. Written in German. Title translates to “Verses of a Jew. ” A collection of Jewish poetry. Dedicated to all of the fighters for a Jewish state. Divided into 5 sections. Georg Mannheim was an Austro-Czechoslovakian journalist and writer. He worked for Bohemia, a daily newspaper, as a political reporter but quit after Nazi powers censored the content of the paper. He founded a magazine called Truth, “In which he led a journalistic struggle against fascism in Europe without political consideration” (Wikipedia, 2016) . He was blacklisted by the Nazis and placed on their list of banned authors and books. He was arrested in September 1940 and sent to Dachau where he died in 1942. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish poetry, German poetry. Some dampstaining and marks. Slight toning. One pencil mark that does not affect text. Library stamp. Very good condition. (ZION-22-36)