Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor through Europe and the East, during the Years 1824 to 1840. Translated from the Third German Edition, by William Howitt. ...
- Singerman ID
- supp1261
- Year
- 1842
- Entry
- Holthaus, Peter Diedrich. Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor through Europe and the East, during the Years 1824 to 1840. Translated from the Third German Edition, by William Howitt. ... New-York: J. Winchester, New World Press, [1842?]. 97 p., [6] p. of adv.
- Author/Editor
- Holthaus, Peter Diedrich
- Location
- New York, NY
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor through Europe and the East, during the Years 1824 to 1840. Translated from the Third German Edition, by William Howitt. ...
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- J. Winchester, New World Press
- Notes
- Chap. 1, "My First Passage Through Germany and Poland" (at p. 12, Posen is "the promised land of the Jews"); chap. 2, "Zigzag Traversings of Germany" (at p. 17, a visit to Prague as Holthaus retells (incorrectly) the story of the city’s magnificent Charles Bridge and its crucifix traced to a collective punishment of the Jewish community); chap. 5, "Return to Poland" (p. 29, Lemberg is infested with swarms of Jews); chap. 9, "Constantinople" (p. 48, "Spanish" and "Polish" Jews); chap. 13, "Jerusalem," p. 75, Ahasuerus and the inception of the Wandering Jew legend. Running title: Holthaus’s Wanderings. Rinderknecht 40-3227.
- Collection
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Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Holthaus, Peter Diedrich, “Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor through Europe and the East, during the Years 1824 to 1840. Translated from the Third German Edition, by William Howitt. ...”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 16, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/50215