Item #18265 Reminiscences and Comments: The Immigrant, the Citizen, a Public Office, the Jew (SIGNED). Adolf Kraus.
Reminiscences and Comments: The Immigrant, the Citizen, a Public Office, the Jew (SIGNED)
Reminiscences and Comments: The Immigrant, the Citizen, a Public Office, the Jew (SIGNED)
Reminiscences and Comments: The Immigrant, the Citizen, a Public Office, the Jew (SIGNED)
Reminiscences and Comments: The Immigrant, the Citizen, a Public Office, the Jew (SIGNED)

Reminiscences and Comments: The Immigrant, the Citizen, a Public Office, the Jew (SIGNED)

Chicago: Published by the author, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Kraus on ffep. Octavo; xii, 244pp. Laid in is the program for the January 7, 1927 Golden Wedding celebration of Mathilde Hirsh and Adolf Kraus held at The Standard Club in Chicago (with individual photos of the young couple and of the mature couple tipped in), along with a postcard image of Kraus' childhood home in Rokycany, Bohemia. Also laid in are 2 Kraus' October 23, 1928 obituaries - 'Advocate of Jews Dies' and 'Noted Lawyer Dies' - (with offsetting to pp 6-7). A Near Fine copy in 3/4 black leather, top edge gilt and marbled boards & endpapers (perhaps a special presentation binding as all other copies currently offered are in green cloth). Spine lettered in gilt; frontis portrait. Item #18265

At the age of 15 Kraus left the Bohemian town of Rokycany where he had grown up and emigrated to the United States. He worked on a farm and in a factory, later settling in Chicago where he completed his law studies before becoming a lawyer. In 1897 he was the second president of the civil service commission. He also became a grand officer of B'nai B'rith (president of Isaiah Temple in Chicago) and a prominent executive of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (nowadays the Union for Reform Judaism). Kraus had close contacts to American presidents William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. In his position he also helped Czech and Jewish immigrants to the USA. In 1930 a commemorative plaque of Adolf Kraus was unveiled in the town of Rokycany, on the house where he spent his childhood. However, in the 1940s, during the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, the plaque was pulled down. (Wikipedia).

Price: $250.00

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