JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

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Yehudah Aryeh (Leone) me-MODENA (1571-1648): Magen va-herev

Edition

. The text was edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Magen va-herev: Hibur neged ha-Natsrut meet Yehuda Ariyeh mi-Modena (Tel Aviv, 1960) A small portion of the treatise was published by A. Geiger, Leon da Modena Rabbiner zu Venedig und seine Stellung zur Kabbala zum Thalmud und zum Christenthume (Breslau, 1856), 10b-14b

Manuscripts

The text of the disputation is extant in eight manuscripts:

  1. Budapest, Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies (BUD SEM 38, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-17r
  2. Jerusalem, Mosad ha-Rav Kook (JER KOOK 887, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-46v
  3. Jerusalem, National Library (JER NLI 786=38, nineteenth-twentieth-century Ashkenazi cursive type handwriting), 1r-87r = copy of PARMA 2257 ms.
  4. London, British Library (LON BL 1084 = LON BL Add. 27149, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-14v

    The item is digitized.

  5. Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan Q 139 Sup., seventeenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-45r
  6. Oxford, Bodleian Library (OX 2786, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-94v
  7. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina (PARMA 2257, seventeenth-century Italian /-Sephardic/ type handwriting), 1r-51v

    The item is digitized.

  8. Warszaw, Zydowski Instytut Historyczny (SARAVAL 45 = Warsaw 35, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-47r

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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