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Auction 32 · Lot 162

Magen ve-Tzinah [an attack upon the views of Uriel da Costa]. Kitzur Magen ve-Cherev, and Kitzur Chayei Yehudah

Estimate
$200–$300
Hammer price
$200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH (LEONE) DA

printer

H. Sulzbach

Place

Breslau

Publication

1856

Description

FIRST EDITION. Edited with a lengthy German introduction by Abraham Geiger and an afterword by Samuel Reggio

references

Vinograd, Breslau 308

summary

Modena was a most enigmatic figure: rabbi, scholar and gambler. Magen Ve-Cherev is a highly effective polemic against heresy
ff. 16, 64. Contemporary boards. 8vo
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