Carl Anton. Sammlung Einiger Rabbinischen Oden nebst einer Freyen Uebersetzung.

(CONVERSIONARY).

F.W. Meyer

Braunschweig

1753

The author, a convert to Christianity formerly named Moses Gershon Cohen, had previously studied for seven years in Prague under R. Jonathan Eybeschütz. The duke of Brunswick appointed him professor of Hebrew at Helmstedt folowing his baptism in Wolfenbüttel. Anton was distinguished from other Jewish converts to Christianity by the fact that, though he occasionally reviled his former co-religionists, he also spoke well of them. He took part in the well-known dispute between Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybenschütz, in which he warmly defended the latter. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls (2001) pp. 215-17.