[Phillips, A.?]. A Review of the Late Controversies Between the Rev. Isaac Leeser and the Congregation Mikveh Israel

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Lot 6
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

[Phillips, A.?]. A Review of the Late Controversies Between the Rev. Isaac Leeser and the Congregation Mikveh Israel

pp.18. Wrappers. Tall 8vo Singerman 1158

Philadelphia: n.p 1850

Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,100
The anonymous pamphleteer who attacks Leeser’s character is most probably one A. Phillips. See L.J. Sussman, The Final Break with Mickve Israel 1846-1850 (pp. 155-78, and esp. p.175) in: Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995)