Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]
AUCTION 55 |
Thursday, June 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 57
ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HA’ROPHÈ.
Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]
Cremona: Christopher Draconi 1576
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
Eliezer Aschkenazi’s Biblical exegesis is permiated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship. This edition of Yosef Lekach, was the last Hebrew book printed in Cremona, which for a little over twenty years was a center of Jewish learning and printing, amidst the rigid censorship of the Inquisition. See D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) pp. 306-19.