ELIAZAR BAR ISAIAH [pseud of Paul Isaiah] Vindication of the

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ELIAZAR BAR-ISAIAH [pseud. of Paul Isaiah]. Vindication of the Christians Messiah . . . Written by Eliazar Bar-Isaiah P. a Jew born, but now a converted and baptized Christian. English and Hebrew text. Title within type ornament border. [14], 66 pages. 4to, 175x138 mm, later brown wrappers, missing portions of backstrip, front cover chipped and loose; upper and lower margins trimmed affecting only bottom of title border, stain on fore edges slightly showing internally, 2 small ink blots on preliminaries. London: Gartrude Dawson, 1653

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first edition of an anti-Judaic tract by an apostate Jew from Eastern Europe who had a brief career in England as a religious con artist until his death in 1656. Wilfred S. Samuel, "The Strayings of Paul Isaiah in England, 1651-1656," Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Volume 16 (1945-1951), pages 77-87; Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 277; Wing E333 and V500A.