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:
- New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2227, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 8-18, defective
The item is digitized.
- Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek (LEIPZIG UBL B.H. 17, eighteenth-century Christian handwriting), 48r-56r
Secondary Literature
- J. C. Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebraea, 4 vols. (Hamburg-Leipzig, 1715-1733), 4: 485-486, Tract. IV.
- G. B. de Rossi, Bibliotheca Judaica Antichristiana (Parma, 1800), p. 123 n. 169.
- F. Delitzsch, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui in biblioteca senatoria civitatis lipsiensis asservantur(Ed. by. Robert Naumann, Heinrich L. Fleischer and Fran Delitzsch, Grimma 1838), 300-301.
- M.S. Ghirondi, Toledoth Gedole Yisrael u-Geone Italia (Trieste, 1853), 325.
- A. Marx, 'The Polemical Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in America', in Studies in Jewish Bibliography and Related Subjects in Memory of Abraham Solomon Freidus (1867-1923) (New York, 1929), 257.
- D. J. Lasker, Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem, 1977), 15.
- D. J. Lasker, 'Ha-Pulmus ha-Anti-Notzri be-Italia Ba-XVIII', Proceedings of Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, 1994), I. Div. B.:188-189 (in Hebrew)
- A. Salah, La République des lettres. Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 419.
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