Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser. Be’Achrith HaYamim - In the Last Days. A Dialogue Between Father and Son Concerning the Hope of Israel.
AUCTION 66 |
Thursday, November 19th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 181
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser. Be’Achrith HaYamim - In the Last Days. A Dialogue Between Father and Son Concerning the Hope of Israel.
Chicago: N. Gonsior 1897
Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $750
Based upon traditional Jewish sources, this treatise was written at the behest of the American Christian Zionist William E. Blackstone and intended as a proto-Zionist petition 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 pp. 345-59; and S.N. Gottlieb, Oholei Shem, p. 309.