Obj. ID: 40602
Jewish printed books  Endekter Jüdischer Baldober oder Sachsen by Joh. Georg Steinmarck, Coburg, 1758

This text was prepared by William Gross:

Entdeckter Jüdischer Baldober, oder Sachsen-Coburgische acta criminalia, Paul Nicolaus Einert. Coburg: Steinmarck, 1758. German. Second edition after first in 1737. "Jewish Bandleader Captured", book by Paul Nicolaus Einert (published anonymously). Includes three engraved plates, two of which show handcuffed Jewish criminals: Mendel Carbe and Hoyum Moyses.
Study concerning Jewish crime in central Europe during the 18th century. Includes claims against gangs of criminals and Jewish thieves and the rules that apply to them in the principality of Saxe-Coburg. The book served prosecutors and private people interested in law. With 3 engraving-plates, two portraying Jewish criminals, hand-cuffed: Hoyum Moyses and Emanuel Heinermann.
The author Einert headed the investigation leading to the arrest of a band of robbers, most of whose members were Jews, captured in the 1730s in Coburg in Bavaria, Germany.
The bandleader ("Baldober") was the Jew Mendel Garbe or Carben, following whose arrest many other band members were captured, almost all of them Jewish. The band was responsible for a long series of robberies in various parts of the country. After the investigation was completed and the band members convicted, Einert published this book with the aim of "exposing many heretofore unknown crimes and robberies carried out by Jews". Einert used the affair to disseminate a book of anti-Semitic accusations based by two assumptions: first, that solidarity exists between all Jews, whether criminal or not, making the entire Jewish people accomplices to crime; second, that the motivation of Jewish criminals to commit crimes is not just greed and the desire for profit, but also the desire to harm Christians and Christianity.
[14], 600 pp [3] engraved-plates, 21 cm.