Mordecai M. Noah. Discourse Delivered at The Consecration of the Synagogue. K.K. She’erith Israel in the City of New York.
AUCTION 60 |
Thursday, November 14th,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 11
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Mordecai M. Noah. Discourse Delivered at The Consecration of the Synagogue. K.K. She’erith Israel in the City of New York.
New York: C.S. Van Winkle 1818
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,750
<<First discourse delivered for a consecration of a synagogue in America,>> delivered by Mordecai Manuel Noah, the most prominent Jew in America of the time and faithful member of the congregation, for which his great-grandfather, seventy years earlier, had served as hazzan.
Noah (1785-1851) was born into a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. He was the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.