Chief Rabbi Nathan M. Adler. Sermon Delivered in the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, on the Occasion of the Recent General Fast Day...For the Benefit of the Sufferers in Ireland, and in the Highlands of Scotland

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $250

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

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J. Wertheimer

Place

London

Publication

1847

Description

Hebrew and English

summary

Response to the Irish Potato Famine (1845-1852) during which a million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland. The cause of the famine was a disease brought on by a water mold, known as potato blight, which ravaged the potato crop, a staple of the island's diet

pp. 15. Lightly browned. Unbound. 8vo

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