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RARE compilation of all 1861 issues of the "Jüdisches Volksblatt" (8th Jahrgang), a weekly German-Jewish periodical edited by Ludwig Philippson, an eminent 19th-century German rabbi and writer on Jewish themes, renowned for his translation of the Old Testament. One of his main aims in publishing the `Jüdisches Volksblatt` was the emancipation of his Jewish fellow men, while at the same time to entertain and tighten the Jewish population to its culture. Text in Gothic lettering (Fraktur). 210x260mm. 208 pages. Marbled board Hardcover with cloth spine. Cover worn and detached. Cover corners and edges worn and peeling. Spine missing. Wormholes on cover. Most pages penetrated by wormholes, but mostly not on text. Ink inscription on front whitepage. Front whitepage and last page wrinkled. Book almost unbound (pages 1-20, 21-84, 85-208 detached from each other). Corner/s of some pages bumped/creased. Pages yellowing, wavy and age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is otherwise in fair reading condition.