Va’yakam Eiduth Be’ya’akov [polemic against Jonathan Eybeschuetz]

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

EMDEN, JACOB

printer

By the author

Place

Altona (i.e. Hamburg)

Publication

1756

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Altona 58; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, p. 260 (no. 16)

summary

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

ff. 69,50-66. Usual browning, dampstained in places. Later blind-ruled chestnut mottled morocco, gently rubbed, rebacked. Sm. 4to

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