Dietrich Schwab. Detectum velum Mosaicum Judaeorum nostri temporis [“The Jewish mask of Mosaic Law, under which the Jews of today practice and carry on knavery, vice, disgrace and finagling… lifted and revealed.”]

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Dietrich Schwab. Detectum velum Mosaicum Judaeorum nostri temporis [“The Jewish mask of Mosaic Law, under which the Jews of today practice and carry on knavery, vice, disgrace and finagling… lifted and revealed.”]

Second edition. <<With rare folding woodcut of the Judensau and Messiah’s donkey.>> pp. (8), 226, (2). Browned and dampwrinkled. Later vellum, spine chipped. Sm. 4to. Freimann, p. 414.

Meyntz: Schwab 1619

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

A Jewish convert to Christianity, the author offers a complete description of the Jewish prayer service, his agenda being to uncover anti-Christian references in the Jewish prayer book. Schwab’s new Christian identity severely jaundiced his many early childhood memories recounted here, even to ascribing to Jewish ritual the practice of employing Christian blood. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750 (2001) pp. 98-9, 209, 213, 220, 300; and I. Shachar, The Judensau: A Medieval anti-Jewish Motif and its History (1974).