Shevirath Luchoth Ha’even.

EMDEN, JACOB

By the Author)

Zolkiew (i.e. Altona

1756

FIRST EDITION. Two-leaf German and Latin Authorization at end.

Vinograd, Altona 59 ; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, p. 256 (no. 12); Mehlman 1713

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” (p.88). An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises which centered over amulets that Eybescheutz circulated in Metz and Hamburg.