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2 unusual facts about Aaron Margalita


Aaron Margalita

Travelling to Berlin, he denounced the Haggadah as containing blasphemies against Christianity, causing Frederick I of Prussia temporarily to suspend sales of a recently published edition of the Midrash Rabbah, until a theological investigation had officially pronounced it harmless.

He is said to have become a Lutheran at Hamburg around 1712, but to have later been imprisoned in Copenhagen for wanting to return to Judaism.



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