JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time, Artwork by sculptor Joshua Koffman. Exhibited in Philadelphia in July 2015.

Beri, lecha emet barur... An anti-Christian comic poem starting with the words "Beri, lecha emet barur..." The poem is sometimes attributed to Simson Cohen Modon, sometimes to Yehoshua ben Tzion Segré.

Manuscripts

The text of the disputation is extant in twelve manuscripts:

  1. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (CIN 397, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 77v

    The item is digitized.

  2. Frankfurt, Universitätsbibliothek (FRANK UB Oct 54, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 4r. The poem was copied directly after the text of Asham Talui by Yehoshua Segré.

    The item is digitized.

  3. Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute (JER BEN ZVI 4068, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 5r

    The item is digitized.

  4. Jerusalem, The National Library of Israel (JER NLI 102=8, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 72r
  5. London, British Library (LON BL 1105 = LON BL Or. 3660, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 40v

    The item is digitized.

  6. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 161, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 286v
  7. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 280, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 224r
  8. New York, Columbia University (NY COLUM X 893 M 692, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 12r

    The item is digitized.

  9. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2232, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1v and a second time on 90r

    The item is digitized.

  10. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2235, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 43v

    The item is digitized.

  11. Oxford, Bodleian Library (OX 2407, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 72r

    The item is digitized.

  12. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina (PARMA 2091, eighteenth-century Italian handwriting), 68r. The poem was copied directly after the text of Asham Talui by Yehoshua Segré.

    The item is digitized.

Secondary Literature

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© Karoly Daniel Dobos: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Early Modern Italy

Research that enabled the preparation of this bibliography was sponsored by the Anniversary Fund of the National Bank of Austria (Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank, project number: 16099: "Jüdisch-christiliche Polemik: Akkulturation und Modernisierung")

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