Lot 114
Shevirat Luchot HaAven - Altona, 1756-1759 - Polemic of Rabbi Ya'akov Emden and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz
Shevirat Luchot HaAven, (Zhovkva), [Altona, 1756-1759]. Printed in the home of the author, Rabbi Ya'akov Emden.
A trenchant response to the book Luchot HaEdut printed by Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz (Altona, 1755) after Rabbi Ya'akov Emden, the Ya'avetz, accused him of holding Sabbatean beliefs - a controversy which arose over amulets that Eybeschütz dispensed (the Ya'avetz read allusions to various Sabbatean dogmas in the amulets).
In the approbation by Rabbi Avraham HaCohen of Zamość [Av Beit Din of Tarłów and Rabbi of Brisk, Lithuania. Trustee of Va'ad Arba Aratzot], the author's name is mentioned as Rabbi David Oz - however, it has been determined that the author was Rabbi Ya'akov Emdem himself, and the book was printed in his home in Altona and not as written on the title page, in Zhovkva. [According to the author's introduction (Leaf 2/b) the change in the name of author and place of printing is understandable, given the fact that he accused the printers of the book Luchot HaEdut of being prohibited by a royal edict to print a lampoon "And even more, to attribute it to the place called Altona…"].
At the end of the book are [2] leaves in German and in Latin - with the authorization of Frantz Eilhardt Joachim, der von Hude from March 1759.
60, [2] leaves. 20 cm. Good-fair condition, much wear and tears to margins (soft paper) without damage to text. New elaborate binding.
On Leaf 60/b is a correction of a word in an ancient handwriting, [possibly belonging to the author, R' Ya'akov Emden].
