(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

A. H. Rosenberg

New York

1897-98

KADUSHIN, ISAAC JUDAH LEIB. Berith Yitzchak [laws, sermons and services for marriage, circumcision and all other life-cycle occasions]. In Hebrew and English. ff.[2], pp.80, ff.[4]. * BOUND WITH: Tzion: Part II of Berith Yitzchak, Prayers and Speeches for Holidays, Yishuv Eretz Israel and other Occasions. pp. 3, [3], 5-39, [2], 40-43, [2], ff. [2]

Singerman 5198 (unseen); Deinard, Koheleth America no. 101 (with erroneous pagination) and no. 693

The author, ordained by the greatest Lithuanian rabbis, and one-time Dayan and Rosh Yeshiva in Minsk, was forced to find employment as a Mohel upon immigrating to the United States. His sermons are quaint and interesting. At a wedding ceremony he states,”It is the duty of a woman to be her husband’s friend and adviser, his companion and co-sufferer in all that concerns both of them” (Part I, p. 69). The book contains testimonials to his skill as a Mohel from four prominent physicians on the Lower East Side, plus an interesting report of the circumcision of a 22-year old man “who rose at once and drank to the health of the Jewish nation” (Part 1, p. 10)