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Engraved title-page: Torah neviʾim u-ḵetuvim bi-lešon ʾAškenaz / Text in Yiddish (editio princeps of the Hebrew canonical books in Yiddish); preface of the translator in German (in Hebrew character) / Privilege *1 for W. Blaeu and J. Baeck in Latin and Yiddish, dated 17-10-1677 / Date in chronogram / Includes: Levi ben Gershom, Toʿaliyot (Usus): ethical conclusions drawn from the books of Joshua, Judges and Samuel / Some copies with additional table of Haftaroth, with a preliminary note in Hebrew and Yiddish, dated 27-08-1682, in which censor Marcus Frnkel states that he corrected some passages (Blitz's exegesis, directed against the Christian faith, of Isaiah VII: 14); however, the command of the Amsterdam City Council, to remove these offensive annotations, was never observed. http://picarta.pica.nl/xslt/DB=3.11/XMLPRS=Y/PPN?PPN=09958509X. |