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Auction 22 · Lot 6

[Phillips, A.?]. A Review of the Late Controversies Between the Rev. Isaac Leeser and the Congregation Mikveh Israel

Estimate
$1,500–$2,000
Hammer price
$1,100

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

n.p

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1850

references

Singerman 1158

summary

The anonymous pamphleteer who attacks Leeser’s character is most probably one A. Phillips. See L.J. Sussman, The Final Break with Mickve Israel 1846-1850 (pp. 155-78, and esp. p.175) in: Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995)
pp.18. Wrappers. Tall 8vo
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