Oeffentliche Zeugnisse zween jüdischer Schriftgelehrten in der Judenschule zu Weickersheim: Daß Jesus, der Gecreutzigte der Meßias sey! ausführlich beschrieben, und mit der Bekehrungs-Geschichte einer Jüdin der Presse übergeben

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Hanisch, 1760 - 310 pages
Detailed account of the public conversion of two Jews and a Jewess as told by Ernst Philipp Kern, a Lutheran minister and preacher in Weickersheim (Wuerttemberg), and later in Hildburghausen (Thuringia). Kern first reports about the complicated conversion of Rabbi Selig Benjamin. He was born in Jung Bunzlau, Bohemia, in 1729 to Rabbi Benjamin Schimmerle, who later served in Mainz. Selig Benjamin studied with his father in Mainz and later with R. Yonatan Eybeschütz in Metz (p. 3). He initially converted to Catholicism in 1750, was baptized in Podibrad and received the new name Joseph Johann Jacob Felix. Shortly thereafter he returned to Judaism. In 1757 he came to Weickersheim and met Kern, who convinced him to convert to Lutheranism. Kern describes in detail the religious doubts of Selig Benjamin and the theological discussions that led to the conversion. He addresses the account to Elisabeth Friderica Sophia, dutchess of Oettingen, who took Selig Benjamain into her services and enabled him to study medicine and become a surgeon.
 

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