Auction 28 · Lot 37

Wülfer, Johann. Theriaca Judaica. * Bound with Vindex Sanguinis (Amsterdam: Adam Jongbloet, 1681). pp. (2), 3-20.

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

(ANTISEMITICA)

Place

Nuremberg

Publication

1681

Description

German, Judeo-German, and Latin. Separate German title of Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangen-Balg (Nuremberg, 1680), and Judeo-German title of Jüdischer Teriac (Altdorf, 1680). Kabbalistic diagram between pp. 74-75. Headpieces and tailpieces, and historiated initials

references

Freimann, p. 416; Steinschneider 7399-2; Friedberg, Y-364

summary

Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangen-Balg, by the apostate Jew, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, provoked a refutation in Yiddish by Solomon (Zalman) Zevi Aufhausen; that book, in turn, was refuted by the Christian Hebraist Johann Wülfer (1651-1724). Wülfer’s Theriaca Judaica reproduces Brenz’s German diatribe against the Jews, followed by Aufhausen’s Yiddish defense, which Wülfer then translates into Latin and refutes point by pount. Thus we have three works in one. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany 1500-1750 (2001), pp. 214, 284, n. 46

pp. (18), 44; ff. (1), 37, (3); pp. (2), 392, (22). Browned. Contemporary calf; 4 raised bands on spine, distressed. Thick 4to

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