Mordecai M. Noah. Discourse Delivered at The Consecration of the Synagogue. K.K. She’erith Israel in the City of New York.

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,750

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

C.S. Van Winkle

Place

New York

Publication

1818

references

Singerman 290; Rosenbach 199.

summary

First discourse delivered for a consecration of a synagogue in America, delivered by Mordecai Manuel Noah, the most prominent Jew in America of the time and faithful member of the congregation, for which his great-grandfather, seventy years earlier, had served as hazzan. Noah (1785-1851) was born into a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. He was the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.

pp. 47. Ex-library. Unbound. 8vo.

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