Kol Ya’akov [interpretations of Legends of the Talmud]

MARGOLIOUTH, JACOB KOPPEL

Vendramin - Antonio Rizzini

Venice

1658

Title within typographical border. Head- and tail-pieces. On final page, additional title within typographical border. Inscription by former owner “Rafael Michel Sanguinetti, 1732.”

Vinograd, Venice 1341

In the Introduction, the author tells a tale of woe. He stemmed from Vladimir, Volhynia. As a result of the recent spate of calamities that befell his native Poland, he was forced to flee to Constantinople, while his children were taken into captivity. The author refers to the Chmielnicki Uprising of 1648-9 and appended to the book is an elegy for the martyred Jews of Poland. Therein the elegist describes various atrocities commmitted, including the rape of Jewish young women who were subsequently tortured. See JE, Vol. VIII, p.329