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
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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.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> pp. 151. Lightly browned, title remargined, ex-library. Recent boards. Sm. 4to. Singerman 1607.

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…”