Entdecktes Judenthum, oder, Gründlicher und wahrhaffter Bericht, welchergestalt die verstockte Juden die Hochheilige Dreyeinigkeit, Gott Vater. erschrecklicher Weise lästern [Judaism Unmasked - a thorough and real report about the horrifying manner in which the stubborn Jews slander the Holy Trinity and disgrace it], by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger. Berlin (on the title page: Koenigsberg), 1711. Two volumes. German and some Hebrew.
Eisenmenger (1654-1704) - a German orientalist and professor of Semitic languages, considered one of the first bearers of anti-Semitism in the new era. This book was dubbed by writer and historian Shimon Dubnov the "Encyclopedia of the Hatred of Jews". Eisenmenger mastered the Bible, Talmud and rabbinical writings and met with Jewish scholars and rabbis, seeking to retrieve references against the Christian faith. For 19 years he presented himself as a person meaning to approach Judaism and study its sources in order to eventually convert; in 1694 he even printed the Hebrew Bible in Frankfurt and was granted the approbation of Rabbi David Gruenhut, who mentioned him in the introduction as an "exalted scholar". The book Entdecktes Judenthum - "Judaism Unmasked" - is an extensive study, written in an apparently reliable scientific manner, against Judaism and its dangers to Christianity, and is considered to this day a classic of modern anti-Semitism.
The present edition is the second one, printed clandestinely in violation of an injunction against the book, seven years after the author's death. In order to avoid prosecution, the printers "forged" the place of publication and noted the city of Koenigsberg, which was outside the jurisdiction of Emperor Joseph I.
[2] leaves, 1016 pp; [2] leaves, 1111 pp, [8] leaves [in other copies these leaves are bound at the beginning of the first volume], approx. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Some creases and light stains. Tears and defects to bindings.