Description: Juedischer Almanach , 1st ed., art nouveau illustrations, 1903, in German, J?discher Verlag, Berlin, 306pp., 22.5x20cm., bad condition ? binding is loose, brown fragile paper, some pages chipped to edges because of fragile paper. Journal of articles by prominent Jewish writers accompanied by attractive illustrations by now renowned Jewish artists published by the J?discher Verlag. The title-page describes Juedischer Almanach as Teilweise veraenderte Neuausgabe (Partially modified new edition.) The list of authors describes this as a Literarischer Teil (literary volume). Among the fifty contributors are such eminent and varied figures as Achad Haam, Scholem Asch, Israel Auerbach, Ch. N. Bialik, Martin Buber, Prof. J. Friedlander, Martin Friedlander, Dr. Theodore Herzel, Georg Hirshfeld, Dr. Anselm Lutwak, J. L. Peretz, Scholem Aleichem, Adolf Stand, Israel Zangwill, and Stepan Zweig. The artists include Mark Antolski, A. Aronson, Jehudo Epstein. Josef Israels Haag, Levitan. L. Pasternak and Jakob Weinles, these from such varied locations aas Paris, Wein, Rom., Berlin, Moskau, Lodz, London, and Warschau. The articles and paintings are as varied as the author and artist list. Among the illustrations are Herman Struck?s Polnischer Jude, Samuel Hirzenberg?s Jeshibah, L. Pasternak?s Musikanten, Lessary Ury?s Jeremias, and Josef Israel?s Ein Sohn des Alten Volkes. All of these illustrations are full page, as are most of the others but there are also some smaller pictures