Szold, Benjamin. Reshith Da'ath / Catechism Designed for the Instruction of Israelitish Children. * Bound with (as issued): Kaiser, A[lois]. Tunes for the Israelitish School.(Baltimore, n.d.) * Szold, Benjamin. Hebrew Primer. (Baltimore, n.d.)

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H.F. Siemers

Baltimore

1873

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew; German. Musical notes by A. Kaiser, Cantor of the Oheb Shalom Congregation

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Benjamin Szold (1829-1902), a native of Nemiskert, Hungary, studied at the Pressburg Yeshivah undrer Rabbi Benjamin Wolf. Later, he came under the influence of Z. Frankel, H. Graetz and J. Bernays at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary. In 1858, he accepted an invitation to become Rabbi in Baltimore, where he led Congregation Oheb Shalom to be one of the foremost synagogues in the United States. His daughter, Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) founded the Hadassah Women's Organization and Youth Aliyah. See EJ, Vol. XV, cols. 664-5