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![Eisenmenger (J. A.)—continued. Heine’s mother. There was also Roman Catholic influence at work, as Kisenmenger was accused of anti-Catholic tendencies. The Jews had offered Hisenmenger the sum of 12,000 florins if he would suppress his work, but he demanded 30,000 florins, and the transactions led to no result. Hisen- menger died suddenly of apoplexy in 1704. Meanwhile two Jewish converts to Chris- tianity in Berlin had brought charges against their former co-religionist of having blasphemed Jesus. King Frederick William I. ordered an investigation. Hisenmenger’s heirs applied to the King; and the latter tried to induce the Emperor to repeal the injunction against the book, but did not succeed. He therefore ordered a new edition of 3,000 copies to be printed in Berlin at his expense, but as there was an Imperial prohibition against printing the book in the German Empire the title-page gave as the place of publication Koenigsberg, which was beyond the boundaries of the Empire. This is the edition which we are offering for sale above. Of the many polemical works written by Christians against Rabbinical literature, Eisenmenger’s has become the most popular one, and since the beginning of the anti- Semitic movement it has supplied anti-Semitic journalists and the authors of anti-Semitic pamphlets with their main arguments. Hisenmenger undoubtedly possessed a great deal of knowledge, but he was blinded by prejudice. His work taken as a whole is a collection of scandals. Some passages are misinterpreted; others are insinuations based on one-sided inferences; and even if this were not the case a work which has for its object the presentation of the dark side of Jewish literature cannot give us a proper understanding of Judaism.—(Jewish Encyclopedia.) 1714 A.D. [100] RELANDUS (Hadrianus). Palaestina ex Monumentis veteribus iltustrata. Fine engraved frontispiece, large engraved portrait, and folding map, 13 other plates and maps, and various vignettes, etc., in the text. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., small 4to, calf, ‘gzl¢. Utrecht, Guilelmy Broedelet, 1714. £2 2s Adrian Reland, a savant well versed in the knowledge of Oriental languages, was born in the north of Holland in 1676. This present publication is Reland’s most important work, and it forms a collection of all the geographical knowledge of old authorities on the Holy Land. A considerable portion of the work is in the Hebrew character. The author died in 1718. 1714 A.D. [ror] VAN TIL (S.). De Tabernaculo Mosis, et Zoologia Sacra; et H. van de Wall de Pileis sive Tiaris Sacerdotum et Pontificum Hebraeorum. With illustrations. 4to, old vellum. Dordrecht, 1714. : 18s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31639227_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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