Carl Anton. Nachlese zu seiner letztern Nachricht von Sabbathai Zebhi, worin zugleich das Ende dieser Streitigkeit erzaehlet wird.

(EMDEN-EYBESCHÜTZ CONTROVERSY).

Schröders Erben

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 following 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 Eybeschütz and in the present text warmly defended the latter against accusations that amulets Eybeschütz prepared contained hidden Sabbatian leanings. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls (2001) pp. 215-17; M.J. Cohen, Jacob Emden, pp. 205-7.