JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
Aharon Hayyim (Vita) VOLTERRA (d. 1763): Makkot le-kesil meah - An anti-Christian poem in 100 verses with a commentary written by the author
Manuscripts
The text of the disputation is extant in three manuscripts:
- Jerusalem, National Library of Israel (JER NLI 8095=28, nineteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 4 dafs
- Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection (MOS RSL 314, eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 323r-328v
- New York, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY JTS 2214, eighteenth-century Italian Rabbinic type handwriting), 1r-6r
The item is digitized.
Secondary Literature
- M.S. Ghirondi, Toledoth Gedole Yisrael u-Geone Italia (Trieste, 1853), 30.
- 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), 257.
- J. Rosenthal, 'Anti-Christian Polemics from its Beginnings to the end of the Eighteenth Century', Areseth 2 (1960), 159. no. 122 (in Hebrew).
- D. J. Lasker, Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem, 1977), 18-19.
- 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.:187 (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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