Francesco IV. Duca di Modena…Arciduca d’Austria, e Principe Reale d’Ungheria, e di Boemia [Proclamation by Francis IV, Arch-Duke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire concerning the Jews of Modena].
Auction 90 |
Tuesday, July 21st,
2020 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts
Lot 153
(ITALY).
Francesco IV. Duca di Modena…Arciduca d’Austria, e Principe Reale d’Ungheria, e di Boemia [Proclamation by Francis IV, Arch-Duke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire concerning the Jews of Modena].
Modena: Eredi Soliani 1816
Est: $200 - $300
With the fall of Napoleon’s relatively benevolent empire in 1814, the Jews of Modena in north central Italy, once again found themselves under Austrian rule with concomitant draconian restrictions: Exclusion from public office, disallowment professional callings, and a prohibition to hold real estate.
See Cecil Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946) pp. 445-47.