Maimonides College. [Pamphlet Announcing the Establishment of Maimonides College in Philadelphia.]

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

New York

(1867)

The establishment of the first Jewish Rabbinical Seminary in the United States. Unknown to Singerman - bibliographically unrecorded. “The Board of Delegates of American Israelites have, in conjunction with the Hebrew Education Socirty of Philadelphia, established a college in that city, styled Maimonides College, under the charter granted to that Society by the Legislature of Pennsylvannia…” Noted thereafter are faculty appointments (including Isaac Leeser, Professor of Homiletics, Belles Lettres and Comparative Theology), details of the collegiate courses, and terms of applications for students, tuition fees, etc. Issued by Abraham Hart, President of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites. See B. Korn, The First American Jewish Theological Seminary: Maimonides College, 1867-1873 in: Eventful Years and Experiences, Studies in Nineteenth Century American Jewish History (1954) pp. 151-213; and L.J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995) pp. 238-40.