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Anti Jewish Book “Ueber Den Sogenannten Judischen Geist” von Hans Ehrenwald, 1st and only ed., 1938, in German - Anti Jewish Book “Ueber Den Sogenannten Judischen Geist” von Hans Ehrenwald, 1st and only ed., 1938, in German Ueber Den Sogenannten Judischen Geist. Eine Aufsatzfolge. Kreis-Verlag Buchdruckerei Bruder Mandl, Bratislava, 1938., 95 pp., Soft cover, 23 x 15.5 cm. Condition: some use wear, some soiling to cover, small tear to rear cover; binding is loose, almost detached to small six blocks. Weight: 140 gr. „Der sogenannte judische Geist“: Denies the legitimacy of Jewish culture and thought; used in German journalism of the 1920s and 1930s exclusively in a polemical and defamatory sense; contrasts ”Jewish” as alien and false with ”authentic” (German/European). This is a persistent anti-Semitic rhetorical device of the time.