Dietrich Schwab. Detectum velum Mosaicum Judaeorum nostri temporis [“The Jewish mask of Mosaic Law, under which the Jews of today practice and carry on knavery, vice, disgrace and finagling… lifted and revealed.”]

Estimate

$1,500–$2,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(ANTISEMITICA).

printer

Schwab

Place

Meyntz

Publication

1619

Description

Second edition. With rare folding woodcut of the Judensau and Messiah’s donkey.

references

Freimann, p. 414.

summary

A Jewish convert to Christianity, the author offers a complete description of the Jewish prayer service, his agenda being to uncover anti-Christian references in the Jewish prayer book. Schwab’s new Christian identity severely jaundiced his many early childhood memories recounted here, even to ascribing to Jewish ritual the practice of employing Christian blood. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750 (2001) pp. 98-9, 209, 213, 220, 300; and I. Shachar, The Judensau: A Medieval anti-Jewish Motif and its History (1974).

pp. (8), 226, (2). Browned and dampwrinkled. Later vellum, spine chipped. Sm. 4to.

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