Tokfo Shel Joseph, R. Joseph Elmaleh, Livorno 1855
תקפו של יוסף - Gibraltar - Only Edition
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- Lot Number 47611
- Title (English) Tokfo Shel Joseph
- Title (Hebrew) תקפו של יוסף
- Note Gibraltar - Only Edition - Inscribed
- Author R. Joseph Elmaleh
- City Livorno
- Publisher Elijah Benamozegh and Partner
- Publication Date 1855
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 1391196
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Physical Description
Only edition. 12, [2], 97 ff. quarto 305:196 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later boards,rubbed.
Detail Description
Jews have lived in Gibraltar since the 14th century, in 1356 a community appeal for assistance in the ransoming of Jews captured by pirates is recorded. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713), that ceded the fortress to England, excluded the Jews from Gibraltar in perpetuity. However, by an agreement in 1729 between England and the sultan of Morocco, his Jewish subjects were empowered to come there temporarily for purpose of trade, and the establishment of a permanent community followed soon thereafter. The majority of the Jewish settlers were from adjacent parts of North Africa. By 1749, when the legal right of Jewish settlement was recognized, the community numbered about 600, being about one-third of the total number of civilian residents, and there were two synagogues. In the middle of the 19th century, when the Rock was at the height of its importance as a British naval and military base, the Jewish community numbered about 2,000 and most of the retail trade was in their hands, but thereafter the number declined. The community still maintains four synagogues and many communal organizations.
Hebrew Description
חלק ב נדפס לפני חלק א.
חלק א: ליוורנו, דפוס אליהו בן אמוזג וחבריו, בשנת ש’ל’ט’י’ ה’ג’ב’ו’ר’י’ם’ [תרט"ו]. [2], נו דף.
ח דף [1, ב- 2, א]: הקדמת רבני טיטואן, ר’ מנחם נהון בהרי"ן, ר’ משה הלוי בהרי"ט ור’ וידאל ישראל ב"ר משה , כג אדר-שני תקפ"ד. דף [2]: הקדמת המגיה ר’ אברהם אלמאליח ב"ר יוסף.
חלק ב: לק"ח [קלח] תשובות ... דפוס יעקב טובייאנא, בשנת ויהי ה’’ א’ת’ י’ו’ס’ף’ ויהי איש מצליח [תקפ"ג]. [2], צב דף. דף [2, ב]: הקדמת המדפיס, יעקב טובייאנא.
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References
Vinograd, Leghorn 1126; EJ; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000120692