HA-KOHEN, JOSEPH - ALMBLADH, KARIN:
Sefer `Emeq ha-Bakha (The Vale of Tears), with the chronicle of the anonymous Corrector. Introduction, Critical edition, Comments by Karin Almbladh.
Uppsala, 1981. Studia Semitica Upsaliensis 5. Diss. 78 pp. + 140 pp. Of Hebrew text & 6 plates of facsimiles & a loose sheet of errata. Original printed wrappers. Very fine. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Ingrid Marie von Post. ''The main purpose of this dissertation is to present a critical edition of `Emeq ha-Bakha by Joseph ha-Kohen. The book, composed in 1558 as reading for 9 Av, sets forth the history of the Jews as a series of persecutions from the fall of the Second Temple to the 16th century. Joseph ha-Kohen took the bulk of the text from his world chronicle as revised by himself after its publication in 1554, preparing at least five successively augmented copies, the last being dated 1575. About 1605, an anonymous chronicler in Monferrato, calling himself ''Corrector'', revised and annotated a copy from 1563, also appending a short chronicle of his own, which he probably intended to be a continuation of Joseph ha-Kohen´s world chronicle. This version was cirulated in manuscript until 1852, when the first edition, prepared by S. D. Luzzatto but published in the name of M. Letteris, appeared. Since then it has been an important source for the history of the Jews in the 16th century. For earlier periods, on the other hand, the accuracy depends on the accuracy of the sources and to what extent more than one source has been used. The new edition is prepared from Joseph ha-Kohen´s autograph from 1575. A new edition of the chronicle of ''Corrector'' has also been made.'' (Abstract).
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