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kestenbaum· Mar 2025
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>(HOLOCAUST).</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>(ZOLTAN HIRSCH) “ZOLI.”</strong></span> Kis Ember Nagy Elete - Önéletrajz) [“The Great Life of a Small Man - An Autobiography.”]</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>FIRST EDITION.</strong></span> Hungarian text. <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>One of only 100 copies</strong></span>. Photographic illustrated plates. <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Inscribed and Signed by the Author</strong></span> in Hungarian on title-page.</p>
<p>pp. 159. Original gilt-titled patterned boards. Sm. 8vo.<br /></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>(Budapest, 1942).</p>
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<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>A MOVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN-JEWISH CIRCUS CLOWN, ACROBAT AND COMEDIAN.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p>Zoltán Hirsch (1885-1944), popularly known as “Zoli” issued this book (and personally sold copies of it in the streets of Budapest) after he was expelled from the Fényes (formerly Beketow) Circus due to the anti-Jewish decrees imposed in Hungary that strictly limited the number of Jews permitted in the workforce. As expected, these blatant anti-Semitic rules affected numerous doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists - but in this case, it affected Zoli, a circus performer, born a dwarf, who was tremendously - and uniquely - popular throughout Hungary.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Zoli was arrested for illegal “book-peddling” and for wearing a yellow star that did not comply with Nazi requirements on the grounds of being too small. His witty defense that the badge was proportionate to his size was rejected by the authorities. Zoli was imprisoned, and eventually deported - together with the majority of the Hungary’s Jewish population - to Auschwitz, where he perished.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Accompanied by:</strong></span> </p>
<p>Roli Zoli. <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Mechanical toy</strong></span> representing a tin clown on a red motorcycle. </p>
<p>* With original box <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>and</strong></span> mechanical key. (Hungary, 1950’s-70’s).</p>
<p> <br /></p>
<p>See: Anna Kérchy, From Showbiz To The Concentration Camp: The Fabulous, Freakish Life Of Hungarian Jewish Dwarf Performers, Zoli Hirsch And The Ovitz Family, in: Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment (Cambridge 2012) p. 211-32.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>See also: <a href="http://www.theescapeactshow.com/blog/past-zoltan-hirsch" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.theescapeactshow.com/blog/past-zoltan-hirsch</a></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>and <a href="https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1414520548391010304" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1414520548391010304</a></p>
![<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>(HOLOCAUST).</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>(ZOLTAN HIRSCH) “ZOLI.”</strong></span> Kis Ember Nagy Elete - Önéletrajz) [“The Great Life of a Small Man - An Autobiography.”]</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>FIRST EDITION.</strong></span> Hungarian text. <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>One of only 100 copies</strong></span>. Photographic illustrated plates. <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Inscribed and Signed by the Author</strong></span> in Hungarian on title-page.</p>
<p>pp. 159. Original gilt-titled patterned boards. Sm. 8vo.<br /></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>(Budapest, 1942).</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>A MOVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN-JEWISH CIRCUS CLOWN, ACROBAT AND COMEDIAN.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p>Zoltán Hirsch (1885-1944), popularly known as “Zoli” issued this book (and personally sold copies of it in the streets of Budapest) after he was expelled from the Fényes (formerly Beketow) Circus due to the anti-Jewish decrees imposed in Hungary that strictly limited the number of Jews permitted in the workforce. As expected, these blatant anti-Semitic rules affected numerous doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists - but in this case, it affected Zoli, a circus performer, born a dwarf, who was tremendously - and uniquely - popular throughout Hungary.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Zoli was arrested for illegal “book-peddling” and for wearing a yellow star that did not comply with Nazi requirements on the grounds of being too small. His witty defense that the badge was proportionate to his size was rejected by the authorities. Zoli was imprisoned, and eventually deported - together with the majority of the Hungary’s Jewish population - to Auschwitz, where he perished.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Accompanied by:</strong></span> </p>
<p>Roli Zoli. <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Mechanical toy</strong></span> representing a tin clown on a red motorcycle. </p>
<p>* With original box <span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>and</strong></span> mechanical key. (Hungary, 1950’s-70’s).</p>
<p> <br /></p>
<p>See: Anna Kérchy, From Showbiz To The Concentration Camp: The Fabulous, Freakish Life Of Hungarian Jewish Dwarf Performers, Zoli Hirsch And The Ovitz Family, in: Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment (Cambridge 2012) p. 211-32.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>See also: <a href="http://www.theescapeactshow.com/blog/past-zoltan-hirsch" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.theescapeactshow.com/blog/past-zoltan-hirsch</a></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>and <a href="https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1414520548391010304" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1414520548391010304</a></p>](/img/aHR0cHM6Ly9iaWRzcGlyaXQtaW1hZ2VzLmdsb2JhbC5zc2wuZmFzdGx5Lm5ldC9rZXN0ZW5iYXVtL2Nsb25lZC1pbWFnZXMvMTIxNzE4LzAwMS8wMDEuanBn.M361le8gSoFZL0gg0gwA5A)
