Francisco de Torrejoncillo. Centinela contra Judíos puesta en la Torre de la Iglesia de Dios.

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 34
(ANTISEMITICA)

Francisco de Torrejoncillo. Centinela contra Judíos puesta en la Torre de la Iglesia de Dios.

pp. (18), 230, (10). Foxed and stained in places. Contemporary limp vellum, wrinkled. 12mo.

Pamplona: (Juan Micón) 1720

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $350
First published in 1673 this is the most infamous anti-Semitic works written in Spain. A notorious anti-Jewish diatribe, it contains all of the classic anti-Semitic allegations and lurid Jewish stereotypes, in addition to an account of Jewish persecutions and expulsions along with justifications for the acts. It also evidences the knowledge of rabbinic texts and Judaic tradition - however distorted - that Iberian Churchmen possessed. “The place of this influential work of anti-Semitic propaganda intended for the masses in the Iberian world deserves to be recognized in the modern canon of European anti-Semitic publications, alongside such infamous publications as the sixteenth-century ‘Von den Juden und Ihren Lugen’ of Martin Luther, the nineteenth-century Russian ‘Protocol of the Elders of Zion’ and Nazi Germany’s 1938 anti-Semitic picture-book for children” (See Francois Soyer, Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire: Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judíos (2014) p. xxii).