Author: LEESER (Isaac)
Title: Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. Translated from the German of J. Johlson, Teacher of a Israelitish School at Frankford on the Maine.
Description: Philadelphia: Printed by Adam Waldie, 5590 [1830]. First edition, 8vo (235 x 145mm), viii, 139, [1]pp., text browned as usual, orig. cloth, orig. printed label (effaced), rubbed, uncut, overall a very good copy of this scarce work. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868), a distinguished author, translator, editor, and a national leader of the American Jewish community, considered himself, first and foremost, an educator. This being his first published work since arriving in America, the first English translation of a textbook on the religious instruction of Jewish children. Provenance: Ink signature of Jos. Hess, 1831 on front paste-down; ownership stamp of Rabbi Sidney Kay, Southport (UK) to front free-endpaper. Rosenbach, American Jewish Bibliography. 321.

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