(Napoleonica). Priere des Membres du sanhedrin, Recite Dans Leur Assemblee Convoquee a Paris le Ier Jour D'Adar de Lanee 5567 (9 Fevrier 1807)
AUCTION 16 |
Tuesday, June 25th,
2002 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 108
(FRENCH JUDAICA).
(Napoleonica). Priere des Membres du sanhedrin, Recite Dans Leur Assemblee Convoquee a Paris le Ier Jour D'Adar de Lanee 5567 (9 Fevrier 1807)
Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale 1807
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
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. The present work is a prayer of gratitude from the newly emancipated Jews for Napoleon, whom many regarded as their political savior. See S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin ( 1979) pp.88-114