Francesco IV. Duca di Modena…Arciduca d’Austria, e Principe Reale D’Ungheria, e di Boemia [Proclamation by Francis IV, Arch-Duke of Austro-Hungarian Empire concerning the Jews of Modena]
AUCTION 27 |
Tuesday, February 08th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art
Lot 136
(ITALIAN-JUDAICA)
Francesco IV. Duca di Modena…Arciduca d’Austria, e Principe Reale D’Ungheria, e di Boemia [Proclamation by Francis IV, Arch-Duke of Austro-Hungarian Empire concerning the Jews of Modena]
Modena: Eredi Soliani Tipografi 1816
Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $550
With the fall of Napoleon’s relatively benevolent empire in 1814, the Jews of Modena in north central Italy, once again found themselves under Austrian rule with the concomitant draconian restrictions: exclusion from public office, inability to follow certain callings such as that of apothecary, and a prohibition to hold real estate. See Cecil Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946), pp. 445-7