Eisenmenger, Johann Andrea. Entdecktes Judenthum "Judaism Revealed".

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

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Eisenmenger, Johann Andrea. Entdecktes Judenthum "Judaism Revealed".

Second edition. Two volumes. German interspersed with Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Judeo-German in waybertaytsch letters. On both titles, "Ex libris Andr. König." Scattered German marginalia Vol. I: pp. (4), 960, 969-1016, (1), (1 blank). * Vol. II: pp. (20), 1111, (1 blank), (1), (1 blank). Title of Vol. I laid to size. Browned. Recent calf-backed marbled boards. Thick 4to

Koenigsberg: 1711

Est: $700 - $900

A notorious anti-Semitic compendium in German with many Hebrew quotes from a prodigious number of sources, ranging from the Talmud through the works of the Mahara”l of Prague. At the onset of Volume II, is an impressive register of the works consulted - replete with accurate bibliographic details. Though the texts are quoted accurately and translated literally, "Eisenmenger read the sources through the prism of assumptions which formed the bedrock of medieval Christian anti-Judaism"(E. Carlebach, Divided Souls (2002), (pp. 212-13) The Jewish community of Frankfurt succeeded in having the 1700 first edition of the Entdecktes Judenthum suppressed, only to see it reissued in this second edition in 1711