Abraham of Augsburg

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Abraham of Augsburg (? - d.November 21, 1265) was a German proselyte to Judaism; died a martyr's death. He seems to have adopted his new faith with such enthusiasm that he publicly assailed Christianity and attacked images of the saints, for which he was sentenced to torture and death. The incident attracted considerable attention, and it forms the subject of elegies by Mordecai ben Hillel (who himself suffered martyrdom in 1298) and by the liturgical poet Moses ben Jacob.

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain. ([1])

By : Louis Ginzberg

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• Leopold Zunz, S. P. pp. 350, 364;
• S. Kohn, Mordecai ben Hillel, pp. 46-49 and appendix I.;
• Perles, in Monatsschrift, 1873, pp. 513, 514;
• Salfeld, Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches, pp. 22, 149, 150;