Isaac Mayer Wise. The Combat of the People: Or Hillel and Herod. A Historical Romance of the Times of Herod I.

An historical novel by America’s most eminent leader of Reform Judaism. Scholar and founder of the Hebrew Union College, Isaac M. Wise here gives a Jewish perspective to a field so far dominated by Christian writers. Wise writes in his memoirs: “[This] novel was read more widely than anything had ever been read in American Jewish circles…”