Recueil sur la Question de Savoir. Si un Juif marié dans sa Religion, peut se remarier après son Baptême lorsque sa femme juive refuse de le suivre & d’habiter avec lui.

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Lot 109
(FRENCH-JUDAICA).

Recueil sur la Question de Savoir. Si un Juif marié dans sa Religion, peut se remarier après son Baptême lorsque sa femme juive refuse de le suivre & d’habiter avec lui.

<<FIRST EDITION. >> pp. 275, 441. Ex-library, few light stains, previous owners marks. Contemporary boards, defective. 8vo. Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica no. 516.

Amsterdam, (Paris?): 1759

Est: $800 - $1,000
A collection of judicial opinions centering upon the case of one Baruch Levi (later Joseph-Jean-François Elie), a converted Jew of Hagenau (Alsace), who sought to marry a Christian woman without having obtained a divorce from his Jewish wife, who in turn, refused to convert to Christianity. The French Parliament subsequently upheld the decision against Levi by the ecclesiastical court of Soissons.