Part-handwritten and part-typed draft with handwritten annotations of a collection of selected poems, published privately for friends to mark Bab's 50th birthday in Berlin in 1930. The title page is marked 'als Privatdruck für seine Freunde herausgegeben an seinen 50. Geburtstag' and signed. The verso of the leaves are headed with JB's Berlin address: Akazienallee 4.
Julius Bab. Ausgewählte Gedichte
This material is held atInstitute of Modern Languages Research, University of London
- Reference
- GB 367 BAB
- Dates of Creation
- undated [c1930]
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- German
- Physical Description
- 1 folder (45 leaves)
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Administrative / Biographical History
Bab was a cofounder of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden. He was a close friend of journalist and theater critic Siegfried Jacobsohn and a key contributor to the early years of the magazine Schaubühne, the later Weltbühne. In 1939 he went into exile first to France and then to the United States. In 1951 he visited Germany in a lecture tour. He died in Roslyn Heights, New York in 1955.
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