Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Shebet Yehuda [A Chronicle] Ladino Version, Belgrade 1859, and La Vara de Juda. Spanish Version, Amsterdam 1744

Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 2010. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. xii, 643 (1)pp. Original illustrated blue wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated half-title. Frontispiece photograph. Text by the historian and rabbinical scholar Shelomoh Ibn Verga in Ladino, printed vis-à-vis in romanized and Hebrew Ladino language followed by a Spanish translation. Verga lived in the second half of the fifteenth century to 1554 and was active in ransoming Jews taken captive during the reign of the Catholic rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. He left Spain after 1492 and lived for about five years in Lisbon. "But following the forced mass conversions there after 1497, he and his family might have lived several years as "conversos" before leaving Portugal in 1506 or 1507 in the wake of a major massacre in Lisbon and settled in Italy" (Lazar). The chronicle Shebet Yehuda contains an account of 64 persecutions, including narrative of disputations, and covers Jewish customs in different countries. Verga wrote and published Shebet Yehuda in Turkey where it was published first in 1550 and was one of the first Jewish historiographic studies written by a Jew. It has been reprinted several times and has been translated into German, Spanish, and Latin. Text in Ladino, Hebrew and Spanish, introduction in English. new. Item #38958

Price: $45.00

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