(Furtado, Abraham). Exhortation aux Israélites de France et du Royaume d'Italie [“Call to the Jews of France and the Kingdom of Italy to Muster Support for the Assembly of Notables Convened by the Emperor Napoleon.”]
AUCTION 41 |
Thursday, September 18th,
2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art
Lot 118
(FRENCH JUDAICA)
(Furtado, Abraham). Exhortation aux Israélites de France et du Royaume d'Italie [“Call to the Jews of France and the Kingdom of Italy to Muster Support for the Assembly of Notables Convened by the Emperor Napoleon.”]
Paris: Plassan 1806
Est: $600 - $800
PRICE REALIZED $550
Open letter by Abraham Furtado, Chairman of the Assembly of Notables, exhorts the Jews of France and Italy to be patriotic and faithful subjects of Emperor Napoleon. Their Mosaic Law has been held up to examination and found pure and they were adjured to cease the practice of usury and take up agriculture as a means of livelihood. See S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin (1979), pp. 57-59, 75-77, 79