(Abraham NANSICH-HAMBURGER). Kuntress…Olam Chadash…Olam Haphuch ["A New World…An Upside Down World": commentary on the state of disbelief of English Jewry]

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(Abraham NANSICH-HAMBURGER). Kuntress…Olam Chadash…Olam Haphuch ["A New World…An Upside Down World": commentary on the state of disbelief of English Jewry]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border ff. (1), 7. Title marginally repaired. Foxed. 8vo Vinograd, London 123; Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 272; Roth, Kiryath Sepher XIV (1937/38), p. 104, no. 59

London: n.p. 1789

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

In this brief work, the Author expresses his anguish at the skepticism that has infected Anglo-Jewry. It seems Voltaire's Age of Reason made considerable inroads in the Jewish community, to the point where men saw "Moses as a legislator like other kings who write laws" (f.2r.). On a more practical level, we are painted a vivid picture of the process of acculturation into mainstream English society: the men's bare heads ("giluy rosh"), the powdered wigs ("epher tachath pe'er"), mixed dancing, comedies, etc. (f.7r.)