Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

For the Author

Frankfurt & Leipzig

1748-49

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. Thirty engraved plates of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Titles printed in red and black

Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig. 14 - text of Get)

Bodenschatz (1717-97) a South German Orientalist made Judaism his special study of which the present work on the “ecclesiastical constitution of the German Jews” is the most important result. The work - no doubt due to the detailed engravings - did much to secure for Judaism a favorable consideration in Germany. See I. Abrahams, By-Paths in Hebraic Bookland (1920) who suggests that Bodenschatz himself is represented in the plate of the synagogue during Sabbath morning prayers, (as a hatless observer)