Shabtai, Judah Halevi ben Isaac ibn. Minchath Yehudah, Son’ei ha-Nashim [“The Gift of Judah, Hater of Women”]

EXTREMELY RARE EDITION OF A MISOGYNISTIC TRACT Few facts survive concerning Judah ibn Shabtai, other than that he lived in Spain in the 13th-century. The date of the mock Kethubah in this tract, “4777” [1017] is an obvious printer’s error. It should read “4977” [1217], when it is believed ibn Shabtai composed the work. Israel Davidson argues, that Son’ei ha-Nashim is as much a parody on the misogynist or woman-hater himself, as it is on the women it supposedly holds up to ridicule. See I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1966), pp. 7-11; EJ, Vol. X, cols. 346-7. The rarity of this work is attested to by the fact that JNUL has but a photocopy in its collection