In Memoriam - Rev. Dr. Isidor Kalisch, of Newark, New Jersey.
AUCTION 64 |
Thursday, March 19th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art
Lot 46
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
In Memoriam - Rev. Dr. Isidor Kalisch, of Newark, New Jersey.
n.p: 1886
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Prussian-born Rev. Isidor Kalisch (1816-86) came to America in 1849 and was called to serve the Tifereth Israel congregation of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1855 the first conference of rabbis was held in Cleveland and a ritual and common prayer-book was agreed upon entitled “Minhag America” which Kalisch edited together with Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. Kalisch took part in polemical discussions on behalf of the ultra-Reform element in Judaism and his debates with Rev. Isaac Leeser, arising from his criticism of Leeser’s English version of the Bible and on the “Jewish Belief in a Personal Messiah,” become well known.