Va’yakam Eiduth Be’ya’akov [polemic against Jonathan Eybeschuetz]
AUCTION 19 |
Tuesday, March 11th,
2003 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art
Lot 76
EMDEN, JACOB
Va’yakam Eiduth Be’ya’akov [polemic against Jonathan Eybeschuetz]
Altona (i.e. Hamburg): By the author 1756
Est: $4,000 - $5,000
Excessively rare response to Jonathan Eybescheutz’s Luchoth Eiduth (1755). Almost all of Emden’s polemical writings were banned upon publication. According to Carmilly-Weinberger “copies of [this work] by Emden [are] difficult to obtain because the ban against [them] had been quite effective” (p.88).
An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises which centered over amulets that Eybescheutz circulated in Metz and Hamburg