Ceremonies et coustumes qui s’observent aujourd’huy parmy les Juifs. [“Ceremonies and customs observed today among the Jews.”] Translated from the Italian. With: Comparaison des ceremonies des Juifs, et de la discipline de l’Eglise

Talya Fishman has suggested that Modena’s bold and unprecedented vernacular presentation of Jewish practices and rituals, was part of a broader campaign to “de-mythologize” the religious “Other,” a project leone Modena advanced from another angle in his Magen va-Cherev, a sympathetic, even conciliatory, treatment of certain Christian doctrines. Just as Magen va-Cherev encouraged Jews to view Christianity in demythologized terms - Modena’s path-breaking work of Jewish self-presentation here, worked to demythologize Christian notions of Judaism. See T. Fishman, Changing Early Modern Jewish Discourse about Christianity in: D. Malkiel (Ed.,)The Lion Shall Roar: Leon Modena and His World (2003), p. 159, 192. Also see Mark Cohen, Leone de Modena’s Riti: A Seventeenth Century Plea for Social Toleration of the Jews in: JSS, Vol. XXXIV (1972), pp. 287-321