Shevet [misspelled] Yehudah - Tribus Judae Salomonis fil. Virgae. Complectens Varias Calamitates, Martyria, Dispersiones, Accusationes, Ejectiones, aliasque Res Judaeorum Ab everso Hierosolymorum Templo ad haec ferè tempora usque.

SOLOMON IBN VERGA.

Wetstenius

Amsterdam

1680

Translated from Hebrew into Latin by Georg Gentius. This copy Uncut and unopened.

Christian Hebraist George Gentze (1618-87), a pupil of Menasseh ben Israel, was entrusted with the task of completing the translation of ibn Verga's historiography “Shevet Yehudah” that Menasseh himself had begun. Besides enjoying the confidence of the great Dutch rabbi, Gentius was also held in high esteem by Rabbis Isaac Aboab and Moses Aguilar. See Aaron L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984) pp. 247-268. The Shevet Yehudah is a chronicle of Jewish persecution from the destruction of the Second Temple until the Author’s own day, “(it is) one of the outstanding achievements of the Hebrew literature of the Renaissance.” (EJ, Vol. VIII col. 1204).