The History of the Rites, Customes, and Manner of Life of the Present Jews throughout the World

Estimate

$1,200–$1,800

Hammer price

$1,000

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author

MODENA, LEON

printer

J.L.

Place

London

Publication

1650

Description

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew

references

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 391, no. 6

summary

The first publication written by a Jew in modern times, outlining the practices of Judaism for a Gentile readership. First published in Italian under the title Historia de gli riti Hebraici (Paris, 1637) at the request of Sir Henry Wotton, English Ambassador to Venice, for presentation to King James I. See C. Roth, "Leon da Modena and His English Correspondents," TJHSE, Vol. 17 (1951-1952), pp. 40-41; C. Roth, "Leone da Modena and England" in: Studies in Books and Booklore (1972) pp. 203-4; M.R. Cohen, The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah (1988), p. 256, n.1; Dorit Raines, "Judaism in the Eyes of the Venetian Patriciate in the Time of Leon Modena" (Hebrew) in D. Malkiel (Ed.), The Lion Shall Roar: Leon Modena and His World (2003) pp. 19-20

pp. (46),1-80, 91-249, (1 blank). Title and a few other leaves remargined, browned. Modern boards. 12mo

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