Baermann of Limburg was a German writer who lived in Frankfurt-am-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and at the beginning of the eighteenth. He published (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1712) a Judæo-German play, with the Hebrew title ''Mekirat Yosef'' (The Sale of Joseph), destined for the Feast of

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, which excited great interest. It was performed in Frankfurt on the Feast of Purim, 1713, with much success, many Christians being present. The actors were Jewish students from

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and

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. The same comedy was acted in

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, and became a favorite Purim play among the Polish Jews generally.

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