Shevet Yehuda - with Megillat Eifah. Amsterdam, [1655]. Rare.

Shevet Yehuda - with Megillat Eifah. Amsterdam, [1655]. Rare.

Sefer Shevet Yehuda, Jewish history until the Expulsion from Spain, by Rabbi Shlomo ibn Virga. 

At the end of this edition, which was published shortly after the Pogroms of 1648 and 1649 (The Khmelnytsky Uprising), the printers added the Megillat Eifah (leaves 85-88), describing the event, by Rabbi Shabtai Cohen - the Shach. The title page of the book notes this addition as a natural continuance of the work: "Recalls...troubles... that Israel experienced... and the last was the great evil that occurred in the kingdom of Polonia [!] 1648 1649". 

Inside the front board, an ex-libris sticker of Sigmund Zeligman. 

Sigmund Zeligman (1873 Karlsruhe - 1940 Amsterdam): was a German-Dutch scholar of Jewish studies, historian and bibliographer. He built one of the most important private Hebraic and Judaica library in Western Europe and wrote several books about the history of Dutch Jewry. The library, which contained approx. 18,000 volumes, was confiscated by the Germans in 1941 and transferred to Berlin. During the war, part of its collections, which was classified as Enemy Literature, reached the Theresienstadt Ghetto. His son was Rabbi Prof. Yitzchak Aryeh Zeligman (1907-1982), an Israeli-Dutch Biblical scholar who headed The Bible Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The son was deported to Theresienstadt in 1944. He worked in the Ghetto's library and survived the war. He returned to Holland after the war and worked as a librarian at the Department for Jewish Studies of the Amsterdam University. After the war, part of his father's book collection reached Jerusalem via Prague. 

Amsterdam, [1655]. Emanuel Benvenisti Press. 

88 leaves. 14 cm. Very good condition. Aging stains. Some reinforcing taping to the first three leaves near the spine. Fine binding. 

This book was auctioned only once before.