Sepher ha’Galuth Veha’Peduth [“Exile and Deliverance”]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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author

MASSARANO, ABRAHAM

printer

n.p

Place

Venice

Publication

1634

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd 1204 Mehlman 1606

summary

Rare pamphlet containing fascinating details concerning the worst disaster in the history of Mantuan Jewry when in 1629-30 the city was sacked by the soldiers of Emperor Ferdinand II and her Jews banished. See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua, Jerusalem, 1977,pp.44-64; EJ, vol. XI, col. 896

ff. 28. Some staining. Modern vellum. 12mo

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