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The New and Fashionable Game of the Jew
The New and Fashionable Game of the Jew
by John Wallis, Dunnet and Wallis, E. Wallis (1807)
Player Count
1 to 4
Categories
  • Dice
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    Description

    Cloth-backed, hand-colored folding engraving with slip cover. 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 explantion 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."

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    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.
    From: http://www.gamesetal.net/Stock_Pages/GLB/glb3930.htm

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