NOTE: This game is Anti-Semitic in both name and presentation but is included here for historical interest. --- Cloth-backed, hand-colored folding engraving with slip cover. Rules are printed on board. Shows a publication date of May 27th, 1807. Board is 18.5 x 16", cover is 7 x 5". Game is played with two six-sided dice, but while I have pictures of the case and board, I can find no explanation of game play other than this quote from "Deconstructing Sondheim", a March 8, 1993 New Yorker article by Stephen Schiff: When you enter his five-story town house in midtown Manhattan, the first thing you notice, besides an enormous black poodle named Max, is his antique-game collection: on the walls, in glass museum cases, on various low tables. Most of the items look faintly sinister: here is something called Schimmel, or Ball and Hammer and here an inscrutable British concoction, Squails, and, behind the sofa, his earliest acquisition — the ghastly New and Fashionable Game of the Jew, a dice game devised in 1811 that, according to Sondheim, "taught kids to be anti-Semitic. But all the games you see here are very nice to look at and real boring," he adds. "This thing about games — I'm not really fascinated with games." -- Looks to be a variation of Gluckshaus. Roll both dice and pay the amount rolled onto the space of the same value. If there is something already on the space, collect it instead. Rolling a 7 always pays to the Jew space. Rolling a 12 collects all the counters on the board.

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