Isaac Mayer Wise. The Combat of the People: Or Hillel and Herod. A Historical Romance of the Times of Herod I.
AUCTION 84 |
Tuesday, August 20th,
2019 at 1:00pm
"K2" Online Sale of Judaica: Printed Books, Posters and Ceremonial Objects Including large sections devoted to: American-Judaica, Cook-Books, Holy Land and Minhagim Books
Lot 9
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)
Isaac Mayer Wise. The Combat of the People: Or Hillel and Herod. A Historical Romance of the Times of Herod I.
Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., at the office of The Israelite and Deborah 1859
Est: $300 - $500
An historical novel by America’s most eminent leader of Reform Judaism. Scholar and founder of the Hebrew Union College, Isaac M. Wise here gives a Jewish perspective to a field so far dominated by Christian writers.
Wise writes in his memoirs: “[This] novel was read more widely than anything had ever been read in American Jewish circles…”