JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

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Mordechai (Marco) ben Nathan LUZZATTO (1720-1790, translator): Tzeriah bet El. A Hebrew translation of Fortaleza del Judaismo y confusion del estrano, formerly attributed to Abraham Ger of Cordova (Escudero Lorenzo). The original work was written in Spanish in the 17th century and was translated into Hebrew and Italian in the 18th century.

Edition

The text was published and translated by A. S. Dreyfus, Seriah Bet-El. Marco Luzzatto's Hebrew translation of the Spanish work Fortaleza del judaismo y confusion del estrano, 2 vols. (Cincinnati, 1949) (PhD thesis left in manuscript form. There are only a few copies worldwide).

Manuscripts

The Hebrew text is extant in five manuscripts:

  1. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (CIN 726, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-66r

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  2. Frankfurt am Main, Universitätsbibliothek (FRANK UB OCT 153, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-94r

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  3. Mantova, Comunita Israelitica (MANT 79, eighteenth-century Italian /Rashi/ type handwriting) 1r-71v

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  4. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2296, eighteenth-century handwriting), 1r-127v

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  5. Oxford, Bodleian Library (OX 2173, eighteenth-century Sephardic type handwriting), 1r-80v

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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