Cologna, Abraham Vita de. Discours Pronoce la Grande Synagogue de Paris a l’Occasion de l’Ouverture du Grand Sanhédrin. [Sermon delivered at the Paris Grand Synagogue on the occasion of the inception of the Grand Sanhedrin]
AUCTION 9 |
Tuesday, March 28th,
2000 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Lot 214
(FRENCH JUDAICA).
Cologna, Abraham Vita de. Discours Pronoce la Grande Synagogue de Paris a l’Occasion de l’Ouverture du Grand Sanhédrin. [Sermon delivered at the Paris Grand Synagogue on the occasion of the inception of the Grand Sanhedrin]
Paris: Imprimerie de Levrault 1807
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $550
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. Abraham De Cologna, the Italian rabbi of Mantua was one of the founding delegates to the Assembly of Jewish Notables. In 1807, he was appointed vice-president of the Sanhedrin