TALMID TZACHKAN MUSARI [Dialogue in Hebrew and Yiddish against gambling and card playing based upon Jewish sources.]

With introduction by the puported translator, Eliahu B. Leizer Chazan of the “Kutnim “ family of Amsterdam, who states that although the author of the Hebrew version is annonymous, he seems to have been a great scholar. L. Rosenthal, however, has already shown in his Yodea Sefer , that the real author is Modena (the original title is Sur Mera, Venice 1596) and that the translation was “stolen” from the convert Friedrich Albert Christian (Leipzig, 1683). The word “stolen” is too harsh, as that translation was in German, not Yiddish. Although in this book the gambler repents and returns to his scholarlly and other business activities, in real life, however, Modena remained an inveterate gambler consorting with disreputable company and was constantly in debt because of his vice.