(Napoleonica). Tekanoth asher Yesodu Anshei Shem Sanhedrin - Décisions Doctrinales du Grand Sanhedrin qui s’est tenu a Paris au mois d’Adar permier, l’an de la Création 5567 (Février 1807), sous les Auspices de Napoléon-Le-Grand

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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

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Lot 183

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

(Napoleonica). Tekanoth asher Yesodu Anshei Shem Sanhedrin - Décisions Doctrinales du Grand Sanhedrin qui s’est tenu a Paris au mois d’Adar permier, l’an de la Création 5567 (Février 1807), sous les Auspices de Napoléon-Le-Grand

FIRST EDITION. Text in French and Hebrew on facing pages pp. 72. Lightly foxed in places. Recent half-calf over marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Paris 108

Paris: for the Consistoire Central des Israelites 1812

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

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