JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

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Shaul ben Joseph MERARI (at the turn of the eighteenth century): Herev pifiyyot

Edition

The text was published by D. J. Lasker, 'Sefer Herev Pifiyyot of Saul ben Joseph Merari (?): An Italian Anti-Jewish Polemic of the Eighteenth Century', Italia 12 (1996), 7-35 (in Hebrew).

Manuscripts

The text is extant in two manuscripts:

  1. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2227, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 8-18, defective

    The item is digitized.

  2. Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek (LEIPZIG UBL B.H. 17, eighteenth-century Christian handwriting), 48r-56r

Secondary Literature

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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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