Group of c.30 items: autograph letters, photographs and printed ephemera pertaining to Gottheil and his family.
AUCTION 14 |
Tuesday, November 13th,
2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 352
GOTTHEIL, GUSTAV
Group of c.30 items: autograph letters, photographs and printed ephemera pertaining to Gottheil and his family.
v.p: v.d
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,750
Gottheil (1827-1903), influential Reform Rabbi, a disciple of Zunz, Steinschneider and the radical Reform Rabbi Samuel Holdheim, served as minister to New York’s Temple Emanuel for twenty three years. He was the most important American rabbi to support Zionism. See EJ, VII col.821