Auction 32 · Lot 6
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,500
- Hammer price
- $1,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
printer
C. Sherman & Co
Place
Philadelphia
Publication
1841
Description
Leeser, Isaac. The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights. FIRST EDITION. pp. 99.
* Bound with: Leeser, Isaac. Discourses, Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of the Jewish Religion. Delivered Chiefly at the Synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the Years 5598-5601. Second Series or Vol. III. FIRST EDITION. pp. 12, 268.
references
Singerman 0745 and 0748
summary
In his book The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights, Rev. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) emerged as a national leader and primary spokesman for American Jewry. The book contains six essays which first appeared as a series of letters to the Philadelphia Gazette in an attempt to thwart the efforts of Christian missionaries.
In his final letter to the Gazette, Leeser boldly wrote, “As citizens with equal rights, not as tolerated aliens, we demand of our fellow-citizens to abate the causeless prejudice which so many entertain for us” (p. 82). See Lance J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995), pp. 106-7.