Akitzath Akrav [polemic with Jonathan Eyebescheutz] * BOUND WITH: Sha’agath Aryeh [eulogy for Aryeh Leib, Av Beth Din of Amsterdam]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

EMDEN, JACOB

Place

Amsterdam (i.e. Altona), (By the Author), 1752; and Amsterdam, G. J. Janson, 1755

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Altona 56 and Amsterdam 1718; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, no.10 and 21; Mehlman 1711

summary

An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises: An examination of the amulets produced by Jonathan Eyebescheutz said to contain distinct Sabbatian characteristics. By decree of the Council of Four Lands, this printed polemic was banned and almost all copies were incinerated upon publication. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp. 86-92; and M. J. Cohen, Jacob Emden: A Man of Controversy (1937) p. 221

ff. 20 and ff. 8. Foxed. Contemporary vellum. 4to

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