Carl Anton. Sammlung Einiger Rabbinischen Oden nebst einer Freyen Uebersetzung.

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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Lot 95
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Carl Anton. Sammlung Einiger Rabbinischen Oden nebst einer Freyen Uebersetzung.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> pp. (12), 171. Foxed. Contemporary vellum, worn. 4to.

Braunschweig: F.W. Meyer 1753

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $600
The author, a convert to Christianity formerly named Moses Gershon Cohen, had previously studied for seven years in Prague under R. Jonathan Eybeschütz. The duke of Brunswick appointed him professor of Hebrew at Helmstedt folowing his baptism in Wolfenbüttel. Anton was distinguished from other Jewish converts to Christianity by the fact that, though he occasionally reviled his former co-religionists, he also spoke well of them. He took part in the well-known dispute between Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybenschütz, in which he warmly defended the latter. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls (2001) pp. 215-17.