(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 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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(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. Contemporary wrappers. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Paris 108

Paris: for the Consistoire Central des Israelites 1812

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $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. See S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin ( 1979) pp.88-114