(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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printer

A. Waldie

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1833

Description

LEESER, ISAAC. The Jews and the Mosaic Law. “Part the First Containing a Defence of the Revelation of the Pentateuch and of the Jews for their Adherence to the Same” and “Part the Second Containing Four Essays on the Relative Importance of Judaism and Christianity”

references

Singerman 578; Rosenbach 375

summary

Isaac Leeser’s second published book and his first original work, was an outgrowth of his defense of Judaism that appered in American periodicals in 1829. It was because of these arguments that Leeser was invited to occupy the pulpit of Philadelphia’s Mikveh Israel; the base from which he established himself as leader of traditional Judaism in America. The boldness of Christian missionaries in America was of frequent concern to Leeser, duly reflected by his writings

pp. viii, 278,(2). Lightly browned, trace foxed on title and last few leaves. Recent cloth, rebacked. Lg. 8vo

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