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
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners
Lot 366
EMDEN, JACOB
Akitzath Akrav [polemic with Jonathan Eyebescheutz] * BOUND WITH: Sha’agath Aryeh [eulogy for Aryeh Leib, Av Beth Din of Amsterdam]
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