Book details: DER JÜDISCHE LÄUFER [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]
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Pinczower, Felix
DER JÜDISCHE LÄUFER [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]
Imprint: Berlin: B. Levy, 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 57 pages, 22 cm. In German. Title translates to “The Jewish Runner.” Inscribed by the author on the inside front cover. Published in Berlin the year after the 1936 Olympics there. Felix Daniel Pinczower (1901-1993) was a German-Jewish sportsman and journalist who played for the Jewish "Hakoach" Berlin. While working as a sports journalist he covered the second Maccabiah, held in Tel-Aviv in 1935 and the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Pinczower immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 after being arrested on Kristallnacht for five weeks. SUBJECTS: Running in the Bible. OCLC lists 6 copies in the US (HUC, LBI, YIVO, Harvard, LOC, Spertus) (OCLC:9894449). Light edge wear to wrappers. Very good condition. (YID-41-47)
Stock number:41715.