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Hamburg - Page 2 PDF Print E-mail

The following scan shows another pair of very scarce serienscheine issued in Hamburg. On the reverse, can be seen a picture/caricature of the stereotypical Jewish man. It is a known piece of Judaica.......anything with a link to the Jewish (Judah) people or their history.

Hamburg - Kunstalt Merkur (Lm.523)
Hamburg - Kunstalt Merkur (Lm.523)

 

 

The translation of the verse is: 

  • The Polish Jews oh my oh my with every man are standing by.
  • Newspaper, top hat, cigar smoke
  • already makes for a big stroke.
  • In the newspaper he does read
  • solely the Michel can help recuperate. (the 'Michel' is a nickname for Hamburg's main church, St. Michaelis)
  • And now from Germany take they want
  • the last of our last for the new Poland.

The translation of the second note, reads: 

  • With granade in hand, the cockerel has to leave the land.
  • He can't woo the hen, the crowing is only for the children.

(Goehren is a term for children, similar where children might be called 'brats' in English.)

 




 

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