Our goal was to capture and record on these pages everything essential—everything great, strong, and significant—within Berlin’s Jewish life.
 
Jüdisches Adressbuch für Gross-Berlin[Jewish Address Book for Greater Berlin]
Goedega Verlags-Gesellschaft
Berlin, 1929
 
First edition. A directory of over 70,000 Jewish residents of Berlin, approximately a third of the city’s Jewish population, listing occupations, addresses, and telephone earpiece symbols denoting phone ownership. The book also contains numerous advertisements of Jewish-owned businesses and a host of community organizations - religious, student, women, youth, and more. Upper spine tears, spine a shade faded, binding somewhat shaken but sound, tape-repaired tears on title and another leaf, 7 leaves tape-attached, pages clean, overall a Very Good copy of a rare artifact.
 
While some feared that this work would expose the Jewish population to danger(and apparently the citizens listed were not asked their permission), its publishers expressed in the book’s editorial that the proven patriotism of the German Jews, particularly during World War I, would overcome anti-Semitic attitudes. Only one more directory would appear, in 1931, before the onset of a dark era.
 
A unique piece of history.