The Modern Jew SIGNED
by White, Arnold
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann, 1899. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 'The Modern Jew', London, William Heinemann, 1899, 1st edition, signed and inscribed in pencil to half title "Charles Beresford Sept. 1899 From Arnold White", xvii, 301pp + publisher's 32pp catalogue of adverts at end dated July 1899, period cream polished buckram, calf gilt title label to spine. A close to Fine copy. Rare in any condition, much more so signed and inscribed thus.Note : Historians of British antisemitism consider Arnold White (publicist, author, journalist, campaigner) a key exponent of racially orientated anti-Jewish sentiment in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. These attitudes were repeatedly demonstrated by his vehement opposition to East European Jewish immigration and underscored by a large literary output on the topic. In the late 1880s, White frequently clashed with leading Anglo-Jewish figures on immigration yet, in general terms, there was often difficulty in assigning him definitively to the antisemitic camp, as a result of his work for Baron Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Colonization Association, which led to a more flattering interpretation of White's contribution to solving the so-called ‘Jewish question’. For instance, an appreciation in the Jewish Chronicle described him as a ‘veritable Janus at the gates of Jewry’, essentially a two-faced troublemaker whose true attitude was not easy to determine. For almost three decades, the question of whether White was friend or foe was asked by various individuals and publications. Signed by Author
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- Bookseller
- finecopy ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110370
- Title
- The Modern Jew SIGNED
- Author
- White, Arnold
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann, 1899
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
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