Wise, Isaac Meyer.

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

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9th February

Place

Albany

Publication

1853

Description

Autograph Letter Signed, in English to Rev. Isaac Leeser, requesting advertising space in Leeser’s Occident.

summary

Isaac Mayer Wise was born in Steingrub, Bohemia, in 1819 and immigrated to America in 1846. At first a rabbi in Albany, in 1854 he moved to Cincinnati. There he established the institutional structure of American Reform Judaism: the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and The Hebrew Union College. Leeser and Wise had been friends and co-workers, in time, obvious ideological differences eventually ended their relationship. See J.G. Heller, Isaac M. Wise; His Life, Work and Thought (1965)

p.1. Cut at bottom. Rectangular 8vo

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