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. ...
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Link 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. ...
Printer/Publisher: J. Winchester, New World Press
Language: English
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.