MANUSCRIT - NORDAU] Max NORDAU (1849-1923) Die Krankheit des Jahrhunderts Autograph manuscript, titled and signed. One quarto volume of 268 pp. numbered on linen paper, of which only the rectos are used, and mounted on tabs. Half-leather binding. Numerous erasures and corrections throughout. Important first draft manuscript. This work, La maladie du siècle, was published in 1887. It forms part of the corpus of works in which Nordau analyzes the mental and moral pathologies of modern civilization. Written in the form of a novel, the book explores the themes of melancholy, disenchantment and moral decay in 19th-century European society. Max Nordau portrays a lost generation, criticizing the loss of traditional values and the rise of materialism and pessimism. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba