Bidspirit auction | Die Mission des Juden von

Die Mission des Juden von Paul Cohen-Portheim, 1st ed., 1922, in German Berlin : Erich Reiss, 1922, 118 pages, soft cover, 21 x 14 cm., Condition: some wear and stains to cover; spine damaged; binding started getting loose; Some pages detached; brown paper Paul Cohen-Portheim (born Paul Heinrich Cohen on March 22, 1879, in Berlin[; died October 4, 1932, in Paris) was a German-speaking Jewish painter, writer, and translator. In an essay published in 1922, he described himself as a follower of the belief “in a progressive and higher evolution”; although “the author himself is Jewish, his viewpoint would be condemned by an orthodox member of the Mosaic faith as much as by an orthodox Christian.”