Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Anti-Semitic Work – Imaginary Meeting Between Shabtai Tzvi and "Süss the Jew" – Germany, 1737-1738
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Curieuser Nachrichten aus dem Reich der Beschnittenen... zwischen Sabathai Sevi... und dem fameusen Würtenbergischen Avanturier, Jud Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. [Frankfurt or Nuremberg, 1737-1738]. German.
Five parts in one volume (divisional title pages, some with fictional locations of printing: Frankfurt-Leipzig, Cana in Galilee).
Imaginary dialogue in the "kingdom of the circumcised" between the false messiah Shabtai Tzvi and "Süss the Jew" (Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, a wealthy Jewish banker and financial advisor to the Duke of Württemberg, executed on false charges).
Part I published in 1737, before Oppenheimer's execution.
Without woodcuts.
Five parts in one volume: 95 pages; 96 pages; 69, [1] pages. 66 pages; 80 pages. 19 cm. Good condition. Defects and light wear. Bookplate. Binding with parchment spine and corners.
Rare. Not in the NLI library.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Sabbateanism
Sabbateanism