JUDAICA AND HEBRAICA
(lots 332-363)
AUERBACH, Abraham, son of Isaac Auerbach. Selichot Shirot ve-Tushbachot. [Penitential Prayers and Liturgical Poetry] by Abraham son of Isaac Auerbach of Coesfeld. Amsterdam: Joseph Athias, 1677.
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AUERBACH, Abraham, son of Isaac Auerbach. Selichot Shirot ve-Tushbachot. [Penitential Prayers and Liturgical Poetry] by Abraham son of Isaac Auerbach of Coesfeld. Amsterdam: Joseph Athias, 1677.
4o (220 x 170 mm). 20 leaves. Elaborate woodcut architectural title border, woodcut tailpiece. (Some light spotting and marginal soiling.) Contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard, manuscript Hebrew lettering on covers (some soiling).
The author was Rabbi of Coesfeld (Westphalia). When he was slandered by an apostate, his goods and fortune were confiscated and he and his family were expelled in 1674 by the Duke Christoph Bernard, he took refuge in Amsterdam but was later reinstated in his function. In 1677, on the eve of the execution of the slanderous apostate, he initiated a fast in his community with the recitation of the penitential prayers which he composed. See: Enc. Judaica, vol. 3, cols. 842. Vinograd, Amsterdam 428; Fuks 397; Roest 25; Zedner 19; Steinschneider 2941.
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The author was Rabbi of Coesfeld (Westphalia). When he was slandered by an apostate, his goods and fortune were confiscated and he and his family were expelled in 1674 by the Duke Christoph Bernard, he took refuge in Amsterdam but was later reinstated in his function. In 1677, on the eve of the execution of the slanderous apostate, he initiated a fast in his community with the recitation of the penitential prayers which he composed. See: Enc. Judaica, vol. 3, cols. 842. Vinograd, Amsterdam 428; Fuks 397; Roest 25; Zedner 19; Steinschneider 2941.