Ephemera 2
100,000 emigrants wanted! :
The Commonwealth of Missouri, or, the empire state of the American Union :
a lecture by L.U. Reavis;-
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Published in London, England : by Smyth & Yerworth, 1880. With 57 pages, numerous illustrations within the 12 pages to the back with both ads and illustrations, In original light blue paper wraps. Title to front covers, in a decorated black border. Ad to the back covers for The Iron Mountain Route to Texas. The booklet is in fine condition with all its original pages intact, no other copy to be found on the world-wide net.
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A Peep at the P*v****n;
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Statistics of the Jews of the United States,
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Die Israeliten und der Monotheismus
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Der Sieg des Judenthums uber das Germanenthum-
Von nicht confessionellen Standpunkt aus betrachtet.
Von W. Marr
Published in Bern:
by Rudolph Costenoble, 1879.
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1st.German Edition Pamphlet by W. Marr, in Original light blue paper wraps. Titels in a red border, with original sellotape along the spine.
Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Marr was a German agitator and publicist, who popularised the term "antisemitism" 1881. Marr's speeches and articles showed first indications of antisemitism in 1848. He was influenced by the Burschenschaft movement of the early nineteenth century, which developed out of frustration among German students with the failure of the Congress of Vienna to create a unified state out of all the territories inhabited by the German people. The latter rejected the participation of Jewish and other non-German minorities as members, "unless they prove that they are anxious to develop within themselves a Christian-German spirit" (a decision of the "Burschenschaft Congress of 1818"). While they were opposed to the participation of Jews in their movement, like Heinrich von Treitschke later, they did allow the possibility of the Jewish (and other) minorities to participate in the German state if they were to abandon all signs of ethnic and religious distinctiveness and assimilate into the German Volk. Marr took these philosophies one step further by rejecting the premise of assimilation as a means for Jews to become Germans. In his pamphlet Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism, 1879) he introduced the idea that Germans and Jews were locked in a longstanding conflict, the origins of which he attributed to race—and that the Jews were winning. He argued that Jewish emancipation resulting from German liberalism had allowed the Jews to control German finance and industry. Furthermore, since this conflict was based on the different qualities of the Jewish and German races, it could not be resolved even by the total assimilation of the Jewish population. According to him, the struggle between Jews and Germans would only be resolved by the victory of one and the ultimate death of the other. A Jewish victory, he concluded, would result in finis Germaniae (the end of the German people). To prevent this from happening, in 1879 Marr founded the League of Antisemites (Antisemiten-Liga), the first German organisation committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to Germany posed by the Jews and advocating their forced removal from the country. Toward the end of his life Marr came to renounce anti-semitism, arguing that social upheaval in Germany had been the result of the Industrial Revolution and conflict between political movements. According to Moshe Zimmermann he "openly requested the Jews' pardon for having erred in isolating the problem". He published in Hamburg a final essay entitled Testament of an Antisemite in which he explained the history of his thinking, asserting that he had originally been a "philo-Semite", having rejected "the miserable Romantic madness of Germanism". He complained that modern anti-Semitism was becoming merged with German mysticism and nationalism. Marr condemned 'the beer drinking leaders, the gay "Heil" shouters of modern anti-Semitism' and crude prejudice against Jewish writers and thinkers. Worn, a few slight nicks and tears, some age browning as to be expected, a few old pencil notes throughout the 50 pages, otherwise a good copy of an original 1st.German Edition Pamphlet by W. Marr. Scarce/Rare. |
The Election of Mr. Lincoln:
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Hand-Book on Mormonism. 1882
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1st. Edition, green Pamphlet;-Published by Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cincinnati
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