(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 225

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Three Letters addressed to Reverend Isaac Leeser, Philadelphia: 1) Autograph Leter Signed from Leeser’s maternal uncle Zalma Rehine, in which he discusses the hospitality of the Peixotto Family of Philadeplhia, as well as Leeser’s difficulties with his congregants at Mikveh Israel and insufficient salary. Baltimore, April 21st, 1836 * 2) Letter from an anonymous “Daughter of Israel” [Hannah Dyer?] requesting that Leeser’s periodical, The Occident, publish the address of the Rev. M.N. Nathan of New Orleans at the recent consecration of the Hebrew Burial Ground of Galveston, Texas. Galveston, October 3rd, 1852. * 3) Letter from Henry Labatt, student of law, and member of a prominent New Orleans Jewish family, offering to organize a sale of Leeser’s books (Hebrew grammars, dictionaries, etc.) to the students and professors of the University, and requesting acknowledgment of a recent literary submission to The Occident. Yale, December 1st, 1849.

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

Regarding Zalma Rehine’s relation to Leeser, see L. J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995), pp. 19, 27, 38-9, 57-8, 83-4, 92, 124. Regarding the Galveston Jewish community, see JE, Vol. V, p. 557.