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Heinrich Kurtzig, Autograph on his book: Ostdeutsches Judentum. Tradition einer Familie, 1927, in German - Heinrich Kurtzig, Autograph on his book: Ostdeutsches Judentum. Tradition einer Familie, 1st ed., 1927, in German Autograph /dedication of Heinrich Kurtzig on frontispiece of his book, 1927 Mit einem Vorwort von Erdmann Graeser Stolp, Eulitz 1927., VII, 164 S., Erste Ausgabe. Hard Cover with mounted title label, size: 19 x 14.5 cm. Condition: cover worn, rubbed stained, spine torn to hinges; foxing stains to many pages. Weight: 300 gr. Kurtzig (1865-1946) wird hier zum Chronisten seiner judisch-deutschen Familie, die im damaligen Ostdeutschland (heute Polen) lebte. Heinrich Kurtzig (born May 2, 1865, in Inowroclaw, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia; died June 17, 1946, in Casablanca, French Morocco) was a Jewish-German merchant, writer, and magazine editor. He was the most important author of fictionalized accounts of Jewish life in the German Province of Posen. Heinrich Kurtzig came from a wealthy Jewish family. His father, Aron Abraham Kurtzig (1823–1904), owned an oil mill in Inowrocław and was a millionaire; his mother, Emma, née Kuehlbrand, belonged to an educated family.[1] Heinrich Kurtzig attended the gymnasium in his hometown and worked as a merchant from 1882 onward, primarily in his father's oil mill.[2] In 1898, he applied for a patent for an elevator buffer in Germany and the USA.[3] In 1904, he took over his father's oil mill after his death. In 1905, Heinrich Kurtzig moved to Charlottenburg near Berlin, where he worked as a civil servant. In 1907, he founded a publishing house, which he transformed into an agency a few years later.[4] Afterward, he primarily worked as a merchant. From about 1925, Heinrich Kurtzig was active in several Jewish organizations and devoted himself particularly to publishing about his former homeland, the Province of Posen, which by then belonged to Poland. He published the Posener Heimatblätter (Posen Regional Papers) from 1926. His two books, Ostdeutsches Judentum (East German Jewry, 1927) and Dorfjuden (Village Jews, 1928), about Jewish life in the Posen region, garnered him some attention. In March 1939, Heinrich Kurtzig emigrated with his family to Morocco, where his daughter lived. From September to December 1939, he was interned as a former German citizen, and in May 1940, he was placed under house arrest.[5] In 1941, he was able to work as a foreign trade merchant. From March 1942 to February 1943, he was interned again. He died in Casablanca in 1946. Heinrich Kurtzig published his first two works in 1886 under the pseudonym Bogumil Curtius. These were also influenced by the style of the humorist Julius Stettenheim. During this time, he belonged to the Breslau School of Poetry. From 1925 onward, he published several books about the lives of the Jewish population in the former Prussian province of Posen, which had been part of Poland since 1919. In these works, he primarily described the difficulties and disadvantages they faced in many areas of life, but also their successes and humorous moments. In his book East German Jewry: Tradition of a Family (1927), he portrayed the lives of several relatives and ancestors, including his father, Aron Kurtzig, who, as an immigrant, managed to build a successful life that was still largely free of antisemitism. ... In his book *Village Jews* (1928), he humorously depicted the joys and sorrows of the Jewish population. This book was among those burned in 1933. In 1934, he published a humorous retelling of Homer's Odyssey.