(ANGLO JUDAICA)

AUCTION 35 | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:00

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Lot 35

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

Remarks upon David Levi’s Dissertations on the Prophecies...by an Inquirer, London, Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1810 . * Bound with: The Obligations of Christians to Attempt the Conversion of the Jews, London, B. R. Goakman, [n.d.] * The Duty... to Seek the Salvation of Israel. London, B. R. Goakman, [n.d.] * Considerations Respecting the Jews..., London, B. R. Goakman,1811. * A Short and Easy Method With the Jews. London, B. R. Goakman,1812. * A Brief Survey of the Ways of God to Man, London, B. R. Goakman, [n.d.] * A Letter to Some Jews, London, B. R. Goakman, 1812. some browning, contemporary calf, lacking spine, covers loose. 8vo Picciotto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history, p. 219-220]

Est: $500 - $700

David Levi (1742-1801) was the first Jew to write in defense of Jews and Judaism in the English language. Although he is well known for his English translations of the Pentateuch, Haggadah, and Hebrew prayers, Levi performed a great service to English Jewry through his polemical writings defending Judaism against the attacks of Thomas Paine and Joseph Priestly. His book “Dissertations on the Prophecies” (London, 1793) was an onslaught against the notion that Jesus was the promised Messiah. It made a great impression among scholars and especially disturbed English Christian theologians.