Tekanoth asher Yesodu Anshei Shem Sanhedrin - Décisions Doctrinales du Grand Sanhedrin

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

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 387

(FRENCH JUDAICA).

Tekanoth asher Yesodu Anshei Shem Sanhedrin - Décisions Doctrinales du Grand Sanhedrin

FIRST EDITION. Text in French and Hebrew. The Michael Zagayski Copy pp. 72. Lightly foxed in places. Modern half-calf over marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Paris 108

Paris: for the Consistoire Central des Israelites 1812

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

Convened by Napoleon in 1806, the Paris Sanhedrin formulated rulings concerning civil issues that faced the Jews who had become enfranchised citizens of a centralised modern democratic state. See S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin ( 1979) pp.88-114