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Lot #    17434
Auction End Date    3/13/2007 12:54:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Geschichte zweiter merkwuerdigen Bekesehrungen zur
Title (Hebrew)    katholicschen Relgion . . .
Author    [Only Ed.]
City    [Germany]
Publication Date    1787
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 48 pp., 164:98 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Contains an account of Moses Levi (b. 1755, near Cologne), a German rabbi who converted to Catholocism. Levi initially entered into the rabbinate, following in the footsteps of his father, Jonathan Levi, chief rabbi in Cologne, Trier and Pflaz. Following his conversion in 1783 his father disowned him and there was an even a plot by his the members of his community to murder him.This proved to him that his decision to convert was the correct one.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica