Va’yakam Eiduth BeYa’akov [polemic against Jonathan Eybeschuetz]

EMDEN, JACOB

By the author)

(Altona

1756

Vinograd, Altona 58; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, p. 260 (no. 16)

Excessively rare response to Jonathan Eybescheutz’s Luchoth Eiduth (1755). Almost all of Emden’s polemical writings were banned upon publication. According to Carmilly-Weinberger “copies of [this work] by Emden [are] difficult to obtain because the ban against [them] had been quite effective” (Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History, p.88). An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises which centered over amulets that Eybescheutz circulated in Metz and Hamburg.