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(ITALY). Seder HaHa’arachah VehaHanhagah [communal regulations and obligations].Title within architectural arch. ff. 6. Wide margins. Stamp removed from title. Modern boards. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Mantua 552. Mantua, Eliezer Solomon d’Italia c. 1783. Beginning in 1588, the Tax Regulations of the Mantuan Jewish Community were printed at intervals, without interruption, until the end of the eighteenth century. The taxes levied were both for the internal upkeep of the Jewish Community, its institutions and functionaries, as well as payments to the general municipality of Mantua. “It was a special characteristic of the Mantuan community that it never went bankrupt, despite the great financial burden it was required to bear… The decline of the economic position of Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the increasing burden of taxes borne by the Jews, and the growth in the number of Jewish poor, all affected the Duchy of Mantua, but [the Mantuan community] succeeded in balancing their budgets because they were able to manage their affairs more wisely than their brethren in neighbouring states.” See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977) pp. 375-90.