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Jonah Ha-Cohen RAPA (at the turn of the eighteenth century): Pilpul al zeman, zemanim, zemanehem

Edition

The polemical treatise of Jonah Rapa was published by G. J. Belasco, Pilpul al zeman, zemanim, zemanehem (London, 1908). A short portion was also published by J. Schirmann, Mivhar ha-shirah ha-Ivrit be-Italyah (Anthologie der hebräischen Dichtung in Italien) (Berlin, 1934), 327-329.

Manuscripts

The text of the disputation is extant in twenty-seven (+1) manuscripts:

1. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek (BERLIN Oct. 1018, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-42v, defective
2. Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BUD 304, seventeenth-eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1-98, defective
3. Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BUD 305, seventeenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1-28, defective

   The item is digitized.

4. Breslau, Jüdisch-theologisches Seminar (BRESLAU 100 = SARAVAL 39, nineteenth-century Italian /Rashi/ type manuscript), 1r-29r, defective. Today the manuscript can be found in the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague.

   The item is digitized.

5. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (CIN 757, seventeenth-eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-18r, defective

   The item is digitized.

6. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College (CIN 758, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-35v, defective

   The item is digitized.

7. Jerusalem, National Library (JER NLI 111=8, eighteenth-century Italian cursive type handwriting), 1r-27r, defective
8. Jerusalem, National Library (JER NLI 6610=28, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-24r, defective
9. London, British Library (LON BL 1105 = LON BL Or. 3660, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 5v-33r

   The item is digitized.

10. London, British Library (LON BL Or. 10378, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting, 1r-48v, defective
11. Los Angles, University of California (LA UCLA 960 bx. 1.10, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-54r, defective
12. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 161, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 245r-281v
13. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 280, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 285r-317v, defective
14. Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 647, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 66r-132v
15. New York, Columbia University (NY COLUM X 893 Z 8 vol. 1 no. 15, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-35v, defective
16. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2223, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-23v, defective

    The item is digitized.

17. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2226, eighteenth-nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-19v, defective

    The item is digitized.

18. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2235, nineteenth-century Italian Rabbinic type handwriting) 1r-36v

    The item is digitized.

19. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2254, seventeenth-eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-27r, defective

    The item is digitized.

20. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2283, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-23v, defective

    The item is digitized.

21. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2394, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-45v, defective

    The item is digitized.

22. New York, Public Library (NY PL **P /Ms. Heb. 180/ = formerly LON MON 454, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-28v
23. Oxford, Bodleian Library (OX 2221, eighteenth-century Italian (Rashi) type handwriting), 164r-192v, defective
24. Paris, Alliance Israelite Universelle (PARIS AIU 258, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-21v, defective
25. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina (PARMA 3495, seventeenth-eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-61v, defective

    The item is digitized.

26. St. Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy (SP IOS A 163, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-25r, defective
27. Warszaw, Zydowski Instytut Historyczny (Warsaw 352 = BRESLAU 252, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-22v
28. Jerusalem, National Library (JER NLI 812=28, The 1908 printed edition with handwritten notes of Adolf Posnanski)

Secondary Literature

• M. Steinschneider, Moritz: 'Der saravalsche Bibliothek von Triest', Serapeum - Zeitschrift für Bibliothekwissenschaft: Handschriftenkunde u. Ältere Literatur 14 (1853), 297.
• M. Steinschneider, Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century: With an Introduction on Talmud and Midrash (London, 1857), 127.
• M. Steinschneider, [nach Mitteilungen von Perrau, P.]: 'Hebräische Handschriften in Parma, Hebräische Bibliographie 8 (1865), 150.
• M. Brann, 'Die Familie Rapoport. (Das Geschlecht des >jungen Raben<.)' Österreichische Wochenschrift 7 (1890), 398.
• S. Krauss, 'Az esztergomi szentkép egy régi zsidó könyvben' [A reference to the Esztergom icon in an old Jewish book], Magyar Zsidó Szemle 20 (1903), 49-56 (in Hungarian).
• S. Krauss, 'Un Atlas juif des statues de la Vierge Marie', REJ 48 (1904), 82-93.
• L. Blau, 'Jóna Rapa polemikus iratának czime' [On the Title of Jonah Rapa's polemical composition], in Magyar Zsidó Szemle 21 (1904), 38-39 (in Hungarian).
• Jewish Encyclopedia Online Edition: Parody
• I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (New York, 1907), 153-166.
• I. Davidson, 'The Anti-Christian Polemic of Jonah Rapa', in Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie XIV (1910), 20-23.
• 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), 256 and 453.
• D. Simonsen, 'Eine Sammlung polemischer und apologetischer Literatur', in Alexander Marx und Herman Meyer (eds), Festschrift für Aron Freimann zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin, 1935), 119.
• J. Rosenthal, 'Anti-Christian Polemics from its Beginnings to the end of the Eighteenth Century', Areseth 2 (1960), 159. no. 123 (in Hebrew).
• D. J. Lasker, Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem, 1977), 18./li>
• D. J. Lasker, 'Ha-Pulmus ha-Anti-Notzri be-Italia Ba-XVIII.', in Proceedings of Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, 1994), I. Div.B:186 and 190 (in Hebrew).
• S. Krauss, The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Time to 1789 (ed. W. Horbury; Tübingen, 1995), 239.
• Z. Y Aharon, in 'Parody, Hebrew,' Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, 2007), 15:657.
• A. Salah, La République des lettres Rabbins, crivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 536.
• M. Kabůrková, Literární prostředky v židovsko-křesťanské polemice [Literary Devices in Jewish-Christian Polemics] (Unpublished PhD dissertation, Praha, 2013), 152-156 (in Czech).
• K. D. Dobos, 'A Jewish Atlas Marianus from the Eighteenth Century?' in Constanza Cordoni, Gerhard Langer (eds.) "Let the wise listen and add to their learning" (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), 659-681.

© 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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