Akitzath Akrav [polemic with Jonathan Eyebescheutz] * BOUND WITH: Sha’agath Aryeh [eulogy for Aryeh Leib, Av Beth Din of Amsterdam]

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

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Lot 366

EMDEN, JACOB

Akitzath Akrav [polemic with Jonathan Eyebescheutz] * BOUND WITH: Sha’agath Aryeh [eulogy for Aryeh Leib, Av Beth Din of Amsterdam]

FIRST EDITION ff. 20 and ff. 8. Foxed. Contemporary vellum. 4to Vinograd, Altona 56 and Amsterdam 1718; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, no.10 and 21; Mehlman 1711

Amsterdam (i.e. Altona), (By the Author), 1752; and Amsterdam, G. J. Janson, 1755:

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises: An examination of the amulets produced by Jonathan Eyebescheutz said to contain distinct Sabbatian characteristics. By decree of the Council of Four Lands, this printed polemic was banned and almost all copies were incinerated upon publication. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp. 86-92; and M. J. Cohen, Jacob Emden: A Man of Controversy (1937) p. 221