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Aharon Hayyim (Vita) VOLTERRA (d. 1763): Rosh Amanah (cf. Song of Songs 4:8)- A long polemical treatise

Manuscripts

The text of the disputation is extant in four manuscripts:

1. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek (BERLIN Qu 678, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-95v

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2. Jerusalem, National Library of Israel (JER NLI 803=38, nineteenth-twentieth-century Ashkenazi cursive type handwriting), 472 pages = a copy of Berlin Qu 678
3. Milano, Bibliotheca Ambrosiana (MILAN X 143 Sup., eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 9r-15v, defective
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, (OX 2404 = Ox Opp. Add. Qu. 110, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 68 dafs, defective, contains only the third part of the work.

Secondary Literature

• M.S. Ghirondi, Toledoth Gedole Yisrael u-Geone Italia (Trieste, 1853), 30.
• M. Steinschneider, Die Handschriften-verzeichnisse der königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1878-1897), II/2:33-36. no. 191. and pp. 131-134.
• Jewish Encyclopedia Online Edition: Volterra, Aaron Hai
• D. Simonsen, 'Eine Sammlung polemischer und apologetischer Literatur', in Alexander Marx und Herman Meyer (eds), Festschrift für Aron Freimann zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin, 1935), 118.
• J. Rosenthal, 'Anti-Christian Polemics from its Beginnings to the end of the Eighteenth Century', Areseth 2 (1960), 159. no. 121 (in Hebrew).
• D. J. Lasker, 'Ha-Pulmus ha-Anti-Notzri be-Italia Ba-XVIII', in Proceedings of World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, 1994), I. Div.B.:185-192 (in Hebrew).
• S. Krauss, The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Time to 1789 (ed. W. Horbury; Tübingen, 1995), 244.
• A. Salah, La République des lettres Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 663-664.

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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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