Wise, Isaac Meyer.

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 34

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Wise, Isaac Meyer.

Autograph Letter Signed, in English to Rev. Isaac Leeser, requesting advertising space in Leeser’s Occident. p.1. Cut at bottom. Rectangular 8vo

Albany: 9th February 1853

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Isaac Mayer Wise was born in Steingrub, Bohemia, in 1819 and immigrated to America in 1846. At first a rabbi in Albany, in 1854 he moved to Cincinnati. There he established the institutional structure of American Reform Judaism: the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and The Hebrew Union College. Leeser and Wise had been friends and co-workers, in time, obvious ideological differences eventually ended their relationship. See J.G. Heller, Isaac M. Wise; His Life, Work and Thought (1965)