Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser. Be’Achrith HaYamim - In the Last Days. A Dialogue Between Father and Son Concerning the Hope of Israel.

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00

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Lot 31

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser. Be’Achrith HaYamim - In the Last Days. A Dialogue Between Father and Son Concerning the Hope of Israel.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Text in Hebrew and English, translated by H. Eliassof. pp. 10, 37 + xiii, 61. Browned. Original printed wrappers, loose in later boards. Sm. 4to. Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 943.

Chicago: N. Gonsior 1897

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Based upon traditional Jewish sources, this Zionist treatise was written at the behest of the American Christian Zionist William E. Blackstone and intended for presentation to the President of the United States. Born in Mir in whose famed yeshiva he studied, Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser (1834-1925) was one of America’s great early rabbis following his arrival in 1880. See Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser by J. Isaacs, in L. Jung (Ed.) Guardians of Our Heritage; and S.N. Gottlieb, Oholei Shem, p. 309.