(Furtado, Abraham). Exhortation aux Israélites de France et du Royaume d'Italie [“Call to the Jews of France and the Kingdom of Italy to Muster Support for the Assembly of Notables Convened by the Emperor Napoleon.”]

Estimate: $600–$800
Hammer price: $550

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author

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

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Plassan

Place

Paris

Publication

1806

references

Szajkowski, Judaica-Napoleonica 83

summary

Open letter by Abraham Furtado, Chairman of the Assembly of Notables, exhorts the Jews of France and Italy to be patriotic and faithful subjects of Emperor Napoleon. Their Mosaic Law has been held up to examination and found pure and they were adjured to cease the practice of usury and take up agriculture as a means of livelihood. See S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin (1979), pp. 57-59, 75-77, 79

pp. 4. Crisp, clean copy. Loose. 4to

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