Bidspirit auction | Arthur Ruppin “ Die Juden

Arthur Ruppin “ Die Juden der Gegenwart”, 1918, Berlin, in German - Arthur Ruppin “ Die Juden Der Gegenwart”, 1918, Berlin, in German Die Juden Der Gegenwart: Eine Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie Berlin, Judischer Verlag, VIII 309 pp., 3. Auflage, Publishers logo by Joseph Budko Dedication on front endpaper in German , 1918 Hard cover with mounted title label, size: 22 x 15 cm. Condition: some wear and discoloring to cover; spine damaged, missing to top ca.4 cm.; light brown paper. Weight: 450 gr. Arthur Ruppin (Hebrew: ארתור רופין; 1 March 1876 – 1 January 1943) was a German Zionist and one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv. Appointed director of Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics (Büro für Statistik der Juden) in 1904, he moved to Palestine in 1907, and from 1908 was the director of the Palestine Office [he] of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa, organizing Zionist immigration to Palestine. In 1926, Ruppin joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the Department for the Sociology of the Jews. Described posthumously as the ”founder of German-Jewish demography” and ”father of Israeli sociology”,[4] his best-known sociological work was The Jews in the Modern World (1934). He was also a proponent of pseudoscientific race theory. Joseph Budko (born August 27, 1888 in Plonsk, Russian Empire; died July 17, 1940 in Jerusalem, League of Nations Mandate for Palestine) was a Jewish-Polish artist who worked predominantly in Berlin and later in Jerusalem.