Bidspirit auction | Antique Anti-Jewish Book. Sarah's Reisebriefe

Antique Anti-Jewish Book. Sarah's Reisebriefe aus drei Welttheilen Amerika, Europa und - Skobeleffia, 1882, in German - Antique Anti-Jewish Book. Sarah's Reisebriefe aus drei Welttheilen Amerika, Europa und - Skobeleffia, 1882, in German Apocryphal letters from an anonymous anti-Semite The book was written by an anonymous author on behalf of Sarah Bernhardt Wuerzburg.Verlag von L. Kreszner (frueher Juedische Buchhandlung.)(1882), VII-177 pp. Half leather hard cover, size: 17 x 11 cm. Condition: some wear and rubbing to edges of cover; spine damped, rubbed, tear to front hinge of spine; some foxing, mainly to first and last pages Weight: 170 gr. Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her ”the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture”, and Hugo praised her ”golden voice”. She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. She is also linked with the success of artist Alphonse Mucha, whose work she helped to publicize. Mucha became one of the more sought-after artists of this period for his Art Nouveau style.