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Simson Cohen MODON (1679-1727): Yushpal elil... An Anti-Christian polemical parody following the text of Yigdal

Edition

The poem was published by A. Marx, 'A List of Poems on the Articles of the Creed', JQR NS. IX. (1918-1919), 307.

Manuscripts

The text of Yushpal elil... is extant in sixteen manuscripts:

1. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (CIN 397, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 77v

   The item is digitized.

2. Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute (JER BEN ZVI 4068, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 5v

   The item is digitized.

3. Jerusalem, National Library (JER 759=28, nineteenth-twentieth-century Ashkenazi cursive), pp. 342-343 = copy of FRANK UB Oct. 54.
4. London, British Library (LON BL 1105 = LON BL Or. 3660, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 40v

   The item is digitized.

5. London, Montefiore Library (LON MON 453, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 40v

   The item is digitized, but only viewable from within the National Library of Israel.

6. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 161, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 287r
7. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 215, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 335r
8. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 280, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 224v
9. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 280, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 318r
10. New York, Columbia University (NY COLUM X 893 M 692, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 12v

    The item is digitized.

11. New York, Columbia University (NY COLUM X 893 Se 6, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 39v
12. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2232, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 100r

    The item is digitized.

13. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2235, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 44r

    The item is digitized.

14. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2446, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 180r

    The item is digitized.

15. Oxford, Bodleian Library (OX 2406, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 75r

    The item is digitized.

16. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina (PARMA 2091, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 64r

    The item is digitized.

Secondary Literature

• Jewish Encyclopedia Online Edition: Modon, Simson Ha-Kohen
• J. Rosenthal, Judah: 'Anti-Christian Polemics from its Beginnings to the end of the Eighteenth Century', Areseth 2 (1960), 159. no. 120. (in Hebrew)
• S. Krauss, The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Time to 1789 (ed. W. Horbury; Tübingen, 1995), 215.
• B. Richler (ed), Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma (Jerusalem, 2001), 403.
• A. Salah, La République des lettres Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 429-431.
• M. Kabůrková, Literární prostředky v židovsko-křesťanské polemice (Literary Devices in Jewish-Christian Polemics) (Unpublished PhD dissertation, Praha, 2013), 149 (in Czech).

© Karoly Daniel Dobos: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Early Modern Italy

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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