Sepher Simchath Israel/Die Freude Israelis [Missionary tract]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $450

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author

August, Jacob Michael

printer

Heinrich Christoph Tatte

Place

Leipzig

Publication

1738

Description

Head-and tail-pieces. Judeo-German and German

references

Not in Freimann

summary

This work by a Jewish apostate, on the faculty of the “yeshivah ha-kedoshah” (holy yeshivah, i.e. theological academy) of Leipzig, was written to show his fellow Jews the supposed way to salvation. Elisheva Carlebach has dealt with such converts from Judaism in Germany during this period. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750 (New Haven, 2001). Our author does not appear there.

pp. 8, 144. 4to

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