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

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 17
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

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

<<FIRST EDITION.>> pp. 151. Foxed. Modern calf. 8vo. Singerman 1607.

Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., Office of The Israelite 1859

Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,200
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…”