ZWIEBEL, SALOMON. Zer HaNitzachon ["The Crown of Victory": defense of Judaism by Joseph Samuel Bloch against anti-Semitic accusations by Prof. Rohling]

Estimate

$100–$150

Hammer price

Not recorded

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

author

(BLOOD-LIBEL)

printer

A.H. Zupnik

Place

Drohobycz

Publication

1895

Description

FIRST EDITION. Signature of former owner, Isaac Joseph Chazan

references

Friedberg, Z-610

summary

In his scurrilous work, Die Polemik und das Menschenopfer des Rabbinismus [“Human Sacrifice of Rabbinics”] (1883), Prof. August Rohling (1839-1931) accused the Jews of ritual murder, finding supposed allusions to the ritual throughout rabbinic literature. Rohling testified to that effect in Hungary's infamous Tisza-Eszlar blood-libel trial, when local Jews were accused of the abduction and murder of a fourteen-year old girl. Rabbi Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch succesfully disproved the allegations and this booklet celebrates the victory in rhyme. See JE, Vol. XII, pp. 148-50; EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 1103-4; Vol. XIV, col. 224; Vol. XV, cols.1155-6

pp. 16. Trace wormed along inner margins. Unbound. 12mo

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