WASSERMANN JAKÓB Masks by Erwin Reiner [seventh edition].

FIGHT. Translated on the author's authority by MARCELI TARNOWSKI, RENAISSSANCE Publishing Institute, Warsaw-Poznan-Krakow-Lwow-Stanislawow, pp. 303, dimensions 12.5 x 19, cloth binding, gilt titling on spine, good condition.

WASSERMANN JAKOB (1873- 1934) - German writer of Jewish descent, popular in the interwar period. A staunch opponent of Nazism. A connoisseur of the European novel tradition. With his work, he joined his contemporaries in the discussion of the self-consciousness of German Jews. He undertook moralistic criticism of society and its institutions in his novels: The Child of Europe, or Kacper Hauser, The Case of Maurizius, Twilight of the Angels, Joseph Kerkhoven's Third Existence. In 1926 he was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, but resigned in 1933, having anticipated his removal from the Academy by the Nazis. That same year, he was on the list of authors banned in Germany because of his Jewish background.