Kaphtor VeFerach [novellae to the legends of the Talmud].

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

LUZZATTO, YA’AKOV.

printer

Asher Anschel ben Eliezer

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1709

Description

Second edition.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 887.

summary

The chief goal of this work is to defend Aggadic passages from the threat of censorship, by explaining them in a way that was palatable to the Christian censors. Safed-born Jacob Luzzatto (16th century) settled in Basle, moving onto Posen and then Cracow, all the while, he worked at a number of Hebrew printing establishments.

ff. 131. Foxed. Modern calf. Sm. 4to.

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