Emanuel Hecht. Synopsis of the History of the Israelites from the Time of Alexander the Macedonian to the Present Age. Translated from the German, enlarged and improved by<< Max Lilienthal. >>

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Lot 8
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Emanuel Hecht. Synopsis of the History of the Israelites from the Time of Alexander the Macedonian to the Present Age. Translated from the German, enlarged and improved by<< Max Lilienthal. >>

<<First American Edition.>> pp. 118. Lightly foxed, ex-library. Contemporary boards, rubbed. Tall 8vo.

Cincinnati: Bloch 1857

Est: $300 - $500
Max Lilienthal (1815-82), a German-born advocate for the reform of Jewish schools in Russia immigrated to the United States in 1845, settling in New York City where he conducted a private boarding school for several years. In 1849 he became rabbi of a short-lived union of the city’s German congregations and directed their day schools. From 1855 until his death Lilienthal was rabbi of the important Bene Israel congregation of Cincinnati, which he led in the direction of moderate Reform.