(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

David b. Mordechai Halevi

London

1794-95-99

ELIAKIM BEN ABRAHAM (i.e. Jacob Hart). Asarah Ma’amaroth: Milchamoth Hashem [polemic in defence of Judaism and against the rationalist theories of Voltaire, Paine and others]. ff. (3), 9, 9-33. * Binah La’itim [on the cryptic chronology in the Book of Daniel and predicting the coming of the Messiah in the year 1840]. ff. (2), 26. * Tzuph Noveloth [Kabbalistic commentary to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo’s Noveloth Chachmah]. ff. 36 (1).

Vinograd, London 139, 143 and 159; Roth, London 71

A unique figure in his time, Hart (1745-1814) was the first native-born English Jew who posessed a level of Jewish learning on a par with his co-religionists on the Continent. The present work represents the first three parts of an intended ten-part tract, a further two appeared in Berlin in 1803 before the project was aborted. For a detailed appraisal of Hart’s life and evaluation of his writings, see JHSET, vol. IV (1940) pp. 207-23 See also A.J. Karp. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) p.225 for reference to America