Der gantz Jüdisch Glaub
Subtitle: Mit sampt einer gründlichen und warhafftigen anzeigunge, aller satzungen, Ceremonie[n], gebetten, heymliche und öffentliche gebreüch, dere[n] sich die Juden halte[n], durch das gantz Jar, mit schönen unnd gegründten Argumenten wider jren glauben
By: durch Anthonium Margaritham Hebreischen Leser, der löblichen Universitet unnd Fürstlichen Statt Leyptzigk, beschriben unnd an tag gegeben
Contributors: Temple Emanuel Library of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1544
Place of publication: Franckfurt am Mayn
Language: ger
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Judaism; Early works to 1800; Liturgy; Rites and ceremonies; Jews
Notes: Composed by Anton Margarita, who converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1522, this book, "Der gantz Jüdisch Glaub (The whole Jewish Faith)", was of great influence on Martin Luther, who cites it frequently in his late tract, "Von den Juden und ihren Lügen (Of the Jews and their Lies)". Margarita's was a "checkered" career, having denounced his own community to the non-Jewish authorities two years before his conversion. Although the son and grandson of rabbis and an instructor in Hebrew at the University of Vienna, after his conversion, he is said by Johann Wagenseil, a seventeenth century Christian Hebraist, and himself a writer of anti-Jewish polemic, to have not been very knowledgeable in the language. At the command of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, he debated Joseph (Joselmann) b. Gershom of Rosheim, leader of the German Jewish community of his time, at the Diet of Worms in 1530.

Colophon: Aussgangen im Zehenden Jar meiner wider geburt/ welche zu Wasserburg gschehen.

Signatures: A-Z⁴ a-i⁴.

Includes wood engravings of Jews engaged in various ritual practices, and wood-engraved illustrated t.p.

Printed marginalia.

Last p. blank.

Rare Book copy: From the Temple Emanuel Library of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature.

Rare Book copy: Müller No. ?.

Rare Book copy: Manuscript notes.

VD 16 M 977

Adams c M 574

Grässe IV, 390

185899.