(Napoleonica). Priere des Membres du sanhedrin, Recite Dans Leur Assemblee Convoquee a Paris le Ier Jour D'Adar de Lanee 5567 (9 Fevrier 1807)

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(FRENCH JUDAICA).

printer

Imprimerie Imperiale

Place

Paris

Publication

1807

Description

Printer's device. From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps

references

Not found in Vinograd

summary

Convened by Napoleon in 1806, the Paris Sanhedrin formulated rulings concerning civil issues that faced the Jews who had become enfranchised citizens of a centralised modern democratic state. The present work is a prayer of gratitude from the newly emancipated Jews for Napoleon, whom many regarded as their political savior. See S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin ( 1979) pp.88-114

pp. 16, final leaf torn, missing upper portion. Middle Hill boards. 8vo

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