Sippur Chalomoth Ketz Haplaoth (Me’ora’oth Tzvi) [history of Shabthai Tzvi.]

(SABBATIANA).

(Y. Rosanes

Lemberg

1804)

Vinograd Lemberg 541.

The authorities often prohibited the publication of new Hebrew books. Thus printers hid their names and the true date of publication by using the name of other printers and predating the year of publication. According to Yaari (Beth Defusah shel HaRabanith Yehudith Rosanes, in: Kiryath Sepher Vol. 17 (1940) p. 97 and p. 108 no. 46) this book was not printed by Yehudith Rosanes. He cites “the sharp eye” of Weiner (Koheleth Moshe no. 3220) who states that it was published in 1834. Yudlov (Mehlman 1277) states that it was published “approximately” in 1835. The names and details supplied by the anonymous author of this work “are purely fictitious. The book is in fact the first Hebrew novel about Sabbatai.” See G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi (1973) p. 124 n.52.