Va’yakam Eiduth BeYa’akov [polemic against Jonathan Eybeschuetz]
AUCTION 61 |
Wednesday, March 12th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 95
EMDEN, JACOB
Va’yakam Eiduth BeYa’akov [polemic against Jonathan Eybeschuetz]
(Altona: By the author) 1756
Est: $5,000 - $6,000
Excessively rare response to Jonathan Eybescheutz’s Luchoth Eiduth (1755). Almost all of Emden’s polemical writings were banned upon publication. According to Carmilly-Weinberger “copies of [this work] by Emden [are] difficult to obtain because the ban against [them] had been quite effective” (Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History, p.88).
An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises which centered over amulets that Eybescheutz circulated in Metz and Hamburg.