Kochbuch für Israeliten

[Gerald Cohen]

    Two of my campus' reference librarians worked on this, but it
seems the book is no longer in existence, at least not in the Berlin
Library. The book is listed in the catalogue, but the catalogue also
specifies that one has to check whether individual items are actually
available.

     In the case of Kochbuch für Israeliten, the message my librarian
received from the State Library in Berlin is that the book was lost
due to the war. With a moment's reflection I realized that as a
Jewish cookbook, it was almost certainly one of the items taken off
the shelves and burned by Nazi orders. Apparently, the only chance of
the book's still being in existence would be if it somehow made its
way earlier to a library outside of Nazi control.

Gerald Cohen


At 11:45 AM -0400 7/11/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>KOCHBUCH FUR ISRAELITEN
>
>    StaBiKat is the Berlin Library catalog (Buecher der
>Staatsbibliotek), also available at
>http://stabikat.Staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/.
>    I tried "cookbook" and "cook book" with very unremarkable
>results.  Then I tried "kochbuch" and got 989 hits.  Unfortunately,
>it takes one day to order a book, and I haven't got that.
>    Most interesting was number 958 in that search, KOCHBUCH FUR
>ISRAELITEN (Carlsruhe: Muller 1815) by Josef Stolz.  Is this in any
>library in the United States?  Can Gerald Cohen request this by
>inter-library loan?  Have people cited from this cookbook?