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August 21, 2024

A Forgotten History of Jewish Magicians

Written as the Nazis came to power.

Over 40 years ago, Richard Hatch, a particle-physicist-turned-professional-magician—came across a German book about Jews and magic, published in 1933. Given the date, he assumed its author, Günther Dammann, was an anti-Semite repackaging familiar myths about Jews and the occult. Hatch revisited the book more recently, and discovered something very different, writes David Segal:

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