ZWIEBEL, SALOMON. Zer HaNitzachon ["The Crown of Victory": defense of Judaism by Joseph Samuel Bloch against anti-Semitic accusations by Prof. Rohling]
AUCTION 49 |
Wednesday, October 27th,
2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art
Lot 75
(BLOOD-LIBEL)
ZWIEBEL, SALOMON. Zer HaNitzachon ["The Crown of Victory": defense of Judaism by Joseph Samuel Bloch against anti-Semitic accusations by Prof. Rohling]
Drohobycz: A.H. Zupnik 1895
Est: $100 - $150
In his scurrilous work, Die Polemik und das Menschenopfer des Rabbinismus [“Human Sacrifice of Rabbinics”] (1883), Prof. August Rohling (1839-1931) accused the Jews of ritual murder, finding supposed allusions to the ritual throughout rabbinic literature. Rohling testified to that effect in Hungary's infamous Tisza-Eszlar blood-libel trial, when local Jews were accused of the abduction and murder of a fourteen-year old girl. Rabbi Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch succesfully disproved the allegations and this booklet celebrates the victory in rhyme. See JE, Vol. XII, pp. 148-50; EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 1103-4; Vol. XIV, col. 224; Vol. XV, cols.1155-6