Bidspirit auction | Ignaz Zollschan, Holocaust Survivor, Autograph

Ignaz Zollschan, Holocaust Survivor, Autograph on his Book “Das Rassenproblem”, 2nd ed., 1911, in German - Ignaz Zollschan, Holocaust Survivor, Autograph on his Book: “Das Rassenproblem”, 2nd ed., 1911, in German Das Rassenproblem. Unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der theoretischen Grundlagen der judischen Rassenfrage. Autograph of the author on frontispiece, 1914. Wien, Lpz, Braumueller 1911. 2., verb. u. verm. Aufl. XVI, 509 S. Hard cloth cover, green edges, size: 23 x 16 cm. Condition: cover worn, rubbed, stained, discolored; tears to hinges of spine and damage to the ends of spine; tear to paper between endpapers; Several worm holes to first pages; couple of pages with foxing near spine. Weight: 890 gr. Jewish cultural history, philosophy, anthropology, Zionism, racial studies, the race question, antisemitism, the racial problem, the contrast between Aryans and non-Aryans, Indo-European racial predisposition, Judaism, Jewish religion, Jewish racial hatred, racial systematics, racial differences, racial characteristics of the Germanic peoples and the Jews, heredity, consequences of inbreeding and racial mixing, inbreeding among Jews, cultural value of the Jewish race, economic history of Jews in the Middle Ages, the value of Jews for the intellectual culture of humanity, the lack of ideals among Jews, the definition of the Jewish question, Jews as objects of economic development. Ignaz Zollschan (born May 28, 1877, in Erlach, Austria-Hungary; died December 25, 1948, in London) was an Austrian-British physician and anthropologist. Ignaz Zollschan came from a Jewish family; he had two brothers, both of whom escaped the Holocaust. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna. He worked as a radiologist in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) and remained there after the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918, of which he acquired citizenship. Zollschan was a Zionist. He promoted the development of the medical X-ray service at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and held consultative status with the World Jewish Congress (WJC), founded in 1936. From 1910 onward, he published on what was then known as the race question, in an attempt to counter the influential antisemitic publications of Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In 1937, he founded a ”Society for the Scientific Study of the Race Question.”[1] Zollschan married the translator Ruth Wollsteiner (1904–1993), co-editor of the journal Das Blaue Heft, in 1938. Following the Munich Agreement of 1938, the Sudetenland was separated from Czechoslovakia and annexed by Nazi Germany. Zollschan was forced to give up his medical practice in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) and fled via Hungary to Zagreb in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1939, he and his wife moved to England. In London, during the Second World War, he was active in self-help organizations for Czechoslovak refugees. He contributed to the BBC's German-language radio program. In 1942, Zollschan was granted guest status at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.