Charlotte Elizabeth (Tonna). Judah’s Lion.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ANGLO-AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

John S. Taylor

Place

New York

Publication

1843

Description

First American edition.

references

Singerman 0832.

summary

A novel concerning the return of an English Jew to the Land of Israel, this is considered to be the first English language “Zionist” novel. It predates George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’ by a full thirty years. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (1790-1846) was an English evangelical Protestant who, in her role as defender of the rights of Jews, became a close friend of Sir Moses Montefiore.

pp. 358. Foxed, signature crudely removed from title-page. Original boards. 12mo.

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