Terminazione degli illustriss. & eccellentiss. signori Inquisitori sopra l'Università degl' Ebrei. [Venice]: Z. Antonio Pinelli Press, 1763. Italian.
The booklet lists thirty-two regulations pertaining to economy and commerce. Issued by the official institution supervising the Jewish community of Venice – Inquisitori sopra l'università degli Ebrei.
The Jewish community of Venice was of great importance to the Italian authorities since it operated the largest and most developed pawnshops in the state. After the community reached the verge of an economic collapse at the beginning of the 18th century, the supervising institution, the Inquisitori sopra l'università degli Ebrei, was established and for about a hundred years published economic regulations to ensure the existence of the community and to continue the operation of the pawnshops. The institution was dismantled after Napoleon conquered the city in 1797.
24 pp., 23.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Paper cover, stained and slightly worn, with notation.
Provenance: The Estate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn.

Four broadsides with announcements and regulations for the Jew of Italy. Modena, Rovigo and Pisa, late 17th century to early 19th century. Italian and some Hebrew.
1. Grida Sopra L'appalto del Tabbacco. Modena, March 17, 1695.
The broadside announces the sale of the monopoly on tobacco trade for ten years to David Teles, David fano and Josef Nunes Franco, Signed in the plate "Gio: Galliani Coccapani".
2. Broadside issued by Domenico Balbi, the governor of Rovigo. Rovigo, October 28, 1731.
The broadside states the Jews' right to live as free citizens and warns against printing publications against Jews or mocking them in public. The penalties for violations of the law are also listed. Topped by a woodcut depicting a winged lion (the emblem of the Republic of Venice, to which Rovigo belonged).
3. Copia &c. Tratta dal Libro delle Parti dell'Universita Generale di questo Ghetto di Rovigo. Rovigo, [ca. 1761].
Large broadside. On its upper part, a regulation from August 23, 1761, designated to moderate the trade relations of the Jews of Rovigo and prevent competition by Jewish traders from outside the city, signed in print by the Rovigo community scribe Abram Meschitta. The text is followed by an approval of the regulation which was given on December 13, 1761 by Inquisitori sopra l'università degli Ebrei (the authority supervising the economic activity of the Jewish communities of the Republic of Venice).
4. " How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven" (Hebrew), a broadside with several regulations for appropriate conduct in the synagogue, issued by the leaders of the community of Pisa. Pisa, 1822.
The broadside is headlined by the Hebrew verse (Genesis: 28:17): "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven"; additional in-text Hebrew words.
The regulations include a prohibition against idle talk during the prayer service and the reading of the Torah; prohibition against raising one's voice more than the prayer leader's; the obligation to attend the sermons; and more.
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Regolamento di contribuenza per gli ebrei dell'Università di Mantova stato adottato, dal convocato generale di essa tenutosi il giorno 14. decembre 1800 [Tax code for the Jews of Mantova, as adopted by the committee on December 14, 1800]. Mantua: Giuseppe Braglia Press, [December 1800/1801]. Italian and some Hebrew.
The booklet begins with the Tax Code of the Jewish community of Mantua, with 25 regulations governing the economic organization and collection of taxes for three years, from March 1801 to the end of February 1804 (see: Shlomo Simonsohn, The History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua, Hebrew edition, Vol. I, Jerusalem, 1962. pp. 272-278). Followed by the Hebrew text of the excommunication placed by rabbis Yekuteil Chaim, Azriel Yitzchak, Ben Zion Menachem and Matzliach Moshe on members of the community who disobey the regulations: "Any man or woman … who willfully violates and disobeys the regulations which were adopted by the general committee on the 28th of Kislev 5561 … by paying all that he is charged and on time, will be excommunicated he and all his possessions shall be cursed before G-d …"
The second part of the booklet contains 23 clauses pertaining to the internal management of both large and executive community committee and the general committee as well as indices.
27 pp., approx. 29.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases and minor blemishes. Blank paper cover, sewn with thread.
Provenance: The estate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn.

Seven booklets issued by Jewish communities in Italy. Rome, Mantua and Venice, 1699-1826. Italian, one booklet in Latin.
Including: ● "Descrizione delle decorazioni onde fù ornato il recinto degli ebrei di Mantova all'occasione delle illuminazioni in esso fatte dalla nazione ebrea nelle sere 4. 5. 6. ottobre 1799", a booklet issued by the Jewish community of Mantua, with a detailed description of the decorations and sculptures placed in the city in honor of the entrance of the Austrian army and the city's return to the rule of Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor (Mantua, ca. 1799).
● "All' Illustrissima Congregazione Particolare Deputata Dalla Santita Di Nostro Signore S. Pio PP. VI. Per L'Universita Degli Ebrei Di Roma, Memoriale / Sommario", a petition by the Jewish community of Rome and Ancona to Pope Pius VI subsequent to the government's discrimination against the Jews. Two booklets (one incomplete).
● "Libretto da consegnare a' SS. tansadori per la nuova tansa, 5540", a booklet with a list of names – presumably, taxpayers of the Jewish community (Venice, 1780?).
● And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The estate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn.