(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Leeser, Isaac. The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights. FIRST EDITION. pp. 99. * Bound with: Leeser, Isaac. Discourses, Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of the Jewish Religion. Delivered Chiefly at the Synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the Years 5598-5601. Second Series or Vol. III. FIRST EDITION. pp. 12, 268. Singerman 0745 and 0748

Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Co 1841

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

In his book The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights, Rev. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) emerged as a national leader and primary spokesman for American Jewry. The book contains six essays which first appeared as a series of letters to the Philadelphia Gazette in an attempt to thwart the efforts of Christian missionaries. In his final letter to the Gazette, Leeser boldly wrote, “As citizens with equal rights, not as tolerated aliens, we demand of our fellow-citizens to abate the causeless prejudice which so many entertain for us” (p. 82). See Lance J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995), pp. 106-7.