JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
Yehoshua ben Tzion (Salvatore Benedetto) SEGRÉ (1709-1798): Even gilayon o Asham meilot. A polemical composition against Fabiano Fioghi's Dialogo della Fede.
Manuscripts
The only known manuscript of the text can be found in the library of the:
Jewish Theological Seminary (New York, NY JTS 2217, eighteenth-century Italian /Rabbinic/ type manuscript), 1r-12v, defective.
The item is digitized.
The manuscript covers only the first part of the treatise.
Secondary Literature
- Jewish Encyclopedia Online Edition: Segré
- 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), 258.
- J. Rosenthal, 'Anti-Christian Polemics from its Beginnings to the end of the Eighteenth Century', Areseth 2 (1960), 158. no. 115 (in Hebrew).
- S. Krauss, The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Time to 1789 (ed. W. Horbury; Tübingen, 1995), 241.
- M. Benayahu, 'The works of Rabbi Yehoshua Segre', Asufot 10 (1997), 317-318 (in Hebrew).
- M. Steinschneider, Die hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher. Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte des Mittelalters, meist nach handschriftlichen Quellen, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1893), 1:126. n. 128.
- M. E. Artom, 'Segré Joshua Benzion', in Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, 2007), 18:252.
- A. Salah, La République des lettres Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 601-605.
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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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