(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

(Leeser, Isaac). Dr. Gothhold Salomon. Twelve Sermons Delivered in the New Temple of the Israelites at Hamburgh. Translated from the German by Translated by Anna Maria Goldsmid. THE ISAAC LEESER COPY, with his signature on the front free endpaper (dated 1 Nov / 5 Cheshvan, 5601 [1840]). pp. viii, 247, [1]. [Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica. p. 274, no. 31]. 1839. WITH: Twelve Sermons Delivered in the New Temple of the Israelites, at Hamburgh. The First American Edition. pp. [3], viii, [2], 14-236, [3]. [Singerman 761; Rosenbach 483]. Charleston, SC, 1841

Salomon (1784-1862) was the preacher of the new Reform Hamburg Temple. His “sermons, modeled, like those of other preachers, on Protestant examples, were praised by his contemporaries, notably H. Heine” (EJ). Goldsmid (1805-1889), a daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, was a London author, poetess, translator, educator and communal worker (JE). The American edition of Twelve Sermons contains a new preface extolling the religious liberty of America and highlighting the refuge it afforded to the Jews. The new preface is merely signed “L,” doubtlessly referring to Isaac Leeser. His involvement in this publication is not mentioned in the bibliographies, nor in the comprehensive biography by Lance Sussman (Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism). The volume is preceded by two pages of advertisements for works by Leeser