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Item 9206. THE JEWISH FAITH; ITS SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION, MORAL GUIDANCE, AND IMMORTAL HOPE; WITH A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE REASONS FOR MANY OF ITS ORDINANCES AND PROHIBITIONS; A SERIES OF LETTERS ANSWERING THE INQUIRIES OF YOUTH

Aguilar, Grace. Introduction by Isaac Leeser.

Item 36861THE JEWISH FAITH; ITS SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION, MORAL GUIDANCE, AND IMMORTAL HOPE; WITH A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE REASONS FOR MANY OF ITS ORDINANCES AND PROHIBITIONS; A SERIES OF LETTERS ANSWERING THE INQUIRIES OF YOUTH

Philadelphia, 1864. 1st American Edition and 1st edition with Leeser introduction. Period boards. 8vo. 446 pages ; 21 cm. Singerman 1812. Civil War-era imprint. “Grace Aguilar (1816 – 1847) was an English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion… Aguilar was the eldest child of Sephardic Jewish refugees..... More

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Item 9606. THE JEWISH FAITH; ITS SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION, MORAL GUIDANCE, AND IMMORTAL HOPE; WITH A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE REASONS FOR MANY OF ITS ORDINANCES AND PROHIBITIONS; A SERIES OF LETTERS ANSWERING THE INQUIRIES OF YOUTH

Aguilar, Grace. Introduction by Isaac Leeser.

Item 37591THE JEWISH FAITH; ITS SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION, MORAL GUIDANCE, AND IMMORTAL HOPE; WITH A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE REASONS FOR MANY OF ITS ORDINANCES AND PROHIBITIONS; A SERIES OF LETTERS ANSWERING THE INQUIRIES OF YOUTH

Philadelphia, 1864. 1st American Edition and 1st edition with Leeser introduction. Period full tooled leather boards. 8vo. 446 pages ; 21 cm. Singerman 1812. Civil War-era imprint. “Grace Aguilar (1816 – 1847) was an English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion… Aguilar was the eldest child of..... More

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Item 267038. [MESILAT YISRA’EL]. THE PATH OF ISRAEL, OR, ABRIDGMENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUTH OF OUR NATION. PART THE FIRST [OF 3 EVENTUALLY ISSUED SERIALLY. COMPLETE FOR THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. [ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE FAMILY OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS]

Ennery, J. [Jonas]. Translated by A. I. H. Bernal. Preface and "Address to the Israelites" by Isaac Leeser.

Item 42792[MESILAT YISRA’EL]. THE PATH OF ISRAEL, OR, ABRIDGMENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUTH OF OUR NATION. PART THE FIRST [OF 3 EVENTUALLY ISSUED SERIALLY. COMPLETE FOR THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. [ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE FAMILY OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS] מסלת ישראל

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1847. 5607 (1847). 1st English-language edition. Original boards, 12mo, [4], 140 pages. Singerman 968. Rosenbach 609. Simon Gratz’s copy, with designation bookplate from Gratz College, the Jewish institution established by his family. The copyright page notes, "Entered....in the year 1847, by John Moss, Mayer Arnold, and..... More

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Item 267037. [MESILAT YISRA’EL]. THE PATH OF ISRAEL; OR, ABRIDGMENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: FOR THE USE OF THE YOUTH OF OUR NATION, BY J. ENNERY, OF STRASBURG. REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. THE JEWISH MISCELLANY, NO. V, XI, XIV [COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME AS ISSUED]

Ennery, J. [Jonas]. Translated by A. I. H. Bernal. Preface and "Address to the Israelites" by Isaac Leeser.

Item 42791[MESILAT YISRA’EL]. THE PATH OF ISRAEL; OR, ABRIDGMENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: FOR THE USE OF THE YOUTH OF OUR NATION, BY J. ENNERY, OF STRASBURG. REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. THE JEWISH MISCELLANY, NO. V, XI, XIV [COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME AS ISSUED] מסלת ישראל

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1850. 5610. 1st Complete English-language edition; First appearance of parts 2 & 3 (Nos. XI & XIV). Part 1 (No. V) had first appeared by itself in 1847. Original boards, 12mo, [4], 390 pages. With 3-volume title page, no internal sectional title pages (?), presume as..... More

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Item 6723. THE TWENTY-FOUR BOOKS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, CAREFULLY TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE MASSORETIC TEXT, AFTER THE BEST JEWISH AUTHORITIES. TORAH, NEVI'IM VE-KHETUVIM.

(First Bloch-Leeser Bible) Leeser, Isaac

Item 30983THE TWENTY-FOUR BOOKS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, CAREFULLY TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE MASSORETIC TEXT, AFTER THE BEST JEWISH AUTHORITIES. TORAH, NEVI'IM VE-KHETUVIM.

Cincinnati ; Chicago : From the American Hebrew Pub. House, the Bloch Pub. and Print. Co., 1853 [1870s?]. Original Full Leather, 16mo, [6], iii-xii, 1243 pages. 17 cm. Title in Hebrew at head of title. The scarce Chicago Bloch edition, retaining the copyright page date of 1853, but probably published..... More

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Item 265044. SIDUR SIFTEI TSADIKIM. THE FORM OF PRAYERS ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS. [COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES]

[First Machzor Published in America] Leeser, Isaac.

Item 42121SIDUR SIFTEI TSADIKIM. THE FORM OF PRAYERS ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS. [COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES] סדור שפתי צדיקים: כמנהג...ספרדים

Philadelphia: Printed by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837-1838. 1st Edition. Gorgeous Period-style gilt-tooled leather. 8vo. Vol. 1: "Part one - Prayers for the Whole Year" [siddur]. VII, 216, 216 pages. Vol. 2: "Part 2 - Prayers for Rosh Hashana". 120, 121 page, 121 page. Vol. 3: "Part 3 - Prayers..... More

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Item 267039. TWELVE SERMONS DELIVERED IN THE NEW TEMPLE OF THE ISRAELITES AT HAMBURGH. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY ANNA MARIA GOLDSMID. [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION]

[From the Very Beginnings of Reform Judaism in America] Salomon, Gotthold [Isaac Leeser]

Item 42793TWELVE SERMONS DELIVERED IN THE NEW TEMPLE OF THE ISRAELITES AT HAMBURGH. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY ANNA MARIA GOLDSMID. [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION]

Charleston, S. C. : Levin & Tavel, 1841. 1st American Edition, Original Publisher's Cloth, Small 8vo, [2] 236 pages, followed by several unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements. Singerman 0761, Rosenbach 483. Jacob Rader Marcus, the dean of historians of American Jewish history, suggests in his work, UNITED STATES JEWRY, 1776-1985..... More

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Item 277508. SHEMA YISRAEL. THE SPIRIT OF JUDAISM.

Grace Aguilar. Edited with Preface by Isaac Leeser

Item 42798SHEMA YISRAEL. THE SPIRIT OF JUDAISM. שמע ישראל

Philadelphia: Published at 1 Monroe Place [by Isaac Leeser], 1842. 5602. 1st edition. Bound in attractive cloth, 12mo, 12, 255 pages. Rosenbach 488; Singerman 767.First edition of Grace Aguilar’s first major work and one of her few works to be published while she was alive. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) was the..... More

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Item 277509. SHEMA YISRAEL. THE SPIRIT OF JUDAISM.

Grace Aguilar. Edited with Preface by Isaac Leeser

Item 42799SHEMA YISRAEL. THE SPIRIT OF JUDAISM. שמע ישראל

Philadelphia: Published at 1227 Walnut St. [by Isaac Leeser], 1864. 3rd edition [1st edition Thus with Additional Poems]. Original Printed Green Boards, 12mo, [264] pages. Contain’s Leeser’s “Preface” (Jan. 3, 1842) followed by a new “Note” (May, 5624), reading, in part, “Some poems of Miss A. have been added as..... More

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Item 267036. PATRIARCHAL TIMES, COMPRISING INTERESTING EVENTS, INCIDENTS, AND CHARACTERS, FOUNDED ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. PART I [ONLY, OF II]

[Isaac Leeser] O'Keeffe, Adelaide

Item 42790PATRIARCHAL TIMES, COMPRISING INTERESTING EVENTS, INCIDENTS, AND CHARACTERS, FOUNDED ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. PART I [ONLY, OF II]

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 5607, 1847. 1st Jewish Publication Society edition, with new preface by “The Committee" [Probably Isaac Leeser]. Period cloth, 16mo (small) , vi, 108 pages. Singerman 0994. Rosenbach: American Jewish bibliography; 612, 633. Comprises Nr 8 of “The Jewish Miscellany. ” Includes Part 1, Abraham, Ishmael..... More

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Item 267035. PATRIARCHAL TIMES, COMPRISING INTERESTING EVENTS, INCIDENTS, AND CHARACTERS, FOUNDED ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

[Isaac Leeser] O'Keeffe, Adelaide. Report to the [Jewish] Publication Society & Preface by Isaac Leeser

Item 42789PATRIARCHAL TIMES, COMPRISING INTERESTING EVENTS, INCIDENTS, AND CHARACTERS, FOUNDED ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 5607, 1847. 1st Jewish Publication Society edition, with new preface by “The Committee" [Probably Isaac Leeser]. Original period tooled cloth, 16mo (small) , vi, 319 pages. Singerman 0994. Rosenbach: American Jewish bibliography; 612, 633. Includes "Second Report of the Publication Committee, to the [Jewish] Publication..... More

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Item 6993. THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE JEWS

Philippson, Ludwig; Maurice Mayer; Isaac Leeser

Item 31551THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE JEWS

Philadelphia; Jones & Hamilton, Printers, 1866 [5626]. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. IV, 41 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Singerman 1969. By Dr. L. Philippson. Translated from the German, by Maurice Mayer. Preface by Isaac Leeser. Originally serialized in German in the ‘Allgemeine zeitung des judenthums’, simultaneously serialized in English translation..... More

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Item 254191. CATECHISM FOR JEWISH CHILDREN: DESIGNED AS A RELIGIOUS MANUAL FOR HOUSE AND SCHOOL

Leeser, Isaac

Item 42153CATECHISM FOR JEWISH CHILDREN: DESIGNED AS A RELIGIOUS MANUAL FOR HOUSE AND SCHOOL

Philadelphia; Printed by Sherman & Co. for Abraham de Sola, 1873. Fourth Edition. 5633. Original Cloth. 12mo. X, 134 pages. 19 cm. Third edition. Singerman 2342. Dedicated to Rebecca Gratz. In 1873, the same year this edition was published, the distributor Rabbi Abraham de Sola, “by invitation of President Ulysses..... More

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Leeser, Isaac

Item 39775THE CLAIMS OF THE JEWS TO AN EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE [BOUND WITH AS ISSUED:] DISCOURSES ARGUMENTATIVE AND DEVOTIONAL ON THE SUBJECT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION. DELIVERED CHIEFLY AT THE SYNAGOGUE MIKVE ISRAEL, IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEARS 5598-5601....

Philadelphia: Printed By C. Sherman & Co. 5601, 1841. 1st edition. Quarter leather, 8vo, 268 (Discourses) + 99 (Claims), . Singerman 0745. Rosenbach 476. Leeser’s first major work. “It’s difficult to overestimate the impact of Leeser’s work on American Jewish communal life, religious education, and culture…. Leeser’s first major work..... More

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Leeser, Isaac

Item 31706“HISTORY OF THE JEWS AND THEIR RELIGION” IN: CYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. CONTAINING AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF THE DIFFERENT CREEDS AND SYSTEMS PREVAILING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. WRITTEN BY MEMBERS OF THE RESPECTIVE BODIES.

Glasgow, Bell And Bain, 1853. 1st edition. Period Half leather and marbled boards with raised spine and leather spine title. Leeser's contribution is 8 pages. In this overview of Judaism, the "Pastor of the Hebrew Portuguese Congregation, Philadelphia, " Rev. Isaac Leeser, takes the reader back to the times of..... More

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Item 266820. THE JEWS AND THE MOSAIC LAW

Leeser, Isaac

Item 42725THE JEWS AND THE MOSAIC LAW

Philadelphia; Printed For The Author, And Sold By E. L. Carey And A. Hart, 1833. [5594].1st edition. Original Cloth, Large 8vo. VIII, [1], 278 pages. 23 cm. . Leeser's first book.Rosenbach 375; Singerman 0578. "Part the First: Containing a Defence of the Revelation of the Pentateuch, and of the Jews..... More

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Item 266873. THE OCCIDENT AND AMERICAN JEWISH ADVOCATE. A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEVOTED THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON JEWISH LITERATURE AND RELIGION. VOL. I, 1-11 (APRIL 1843-FEB. 1844)

Leeser, Isaac, editor.

Item 42740THE OCCIDENT AND AMERICAN JEWISH ADVOCATE. A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEVOTED THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON JEWISH LITERATURE AND RELIGION. VOL. I, 1-11 (APRIL 1843-FEB. 1844)

Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser-C. Sherman, Printer, 1843-1844. 1st edition. Period half leather, large 8vo, 7-564 pages (lacking pages 1-6). 1st 11 issues of Isaac Leeser’s Occident, the first widely circulated Jewish periodical in America and an unmatched source for details of mid-19 Century American Jewish life and thought. Rosenbach 541; Goldman..... More

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Item 266885. THE OCCIDENT AND AMERICAN JEWISH ADVOCATE. A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEVOTED THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON JEWISH LITERATURE AND RELIGION. VOL. I, 1-12 (APRIL 1843-MARCH. 1844). [RARE COMPLETE FIRST VOLUME].

Leeser, Isaac, editor.

Item 42741THE OCCIDENT AND AMERICAN JEWISH ADVOCATE. A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEVOTED THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON JEWISH LITERATURE AND RELIGION. VOL. I, 1-12 (APRIL 1843-MARCH. 1844). [RARE COMPLETE FIRST VOLUME].

Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser; C. Sherman, Printer, 1843-1844. 1st edition. Period half leather, large 8vo, (viii) 616 pages. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. 1st 12 monthly issues of Isaac Leeser’s Occident, the first widely circulated Jewish periodical in America and an unmatched source for details of mid-19 Century American..... More

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Leeser, Isaac.

Item 21587“HISTORY OF THE JEWS AND THEIR RELIGION”

In: Cyclopaedia of Religious Denominations. Containing Authentic Accounts of the Different Creeds and Systems Prevailing Throughout the World. Written by Members of the Respective Bodies. repaired Glasgow, Bell and Bain: (1853). Third edition. Leeser's contribution is 8 pages. In this overview of Judaism, the "Pastor of the Hebrew Portuguese Congregation..... More

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Leeser, Isaac.

Item 18939SIDUR SIFTE TSADIKIM: ... KOLEL SEDER HA-TEFILOT LA-TA`ANIYOT KE-MINHAG ... SEFARADIM .... THE FORM OF PRAYERS: ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS. Vol III, part 2, only

Philadelphia: Slote & Mooney, 1864 [5624]. Third Edition. Full tooled Leather , large 12mo. 144 pages. 18 cm. Hebrew text, parallel English translation. "Stereotyped by Slote and Mooney for the editor. " Singerman 1282. Sidur Sifte Tsadikim, Leeser's comprehensive Sephardic prayer book, was the first American prayerbook containing the liturgy..... More

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Item 7956. TWO ENVELOPES ADDRESSED TO ISAAC LEESER IN PHILADELPHIA

[Leeser, Isaac]

Item 33803TWO ENVELOPES ADDRESSED TO ISAAC LEESER IN PHILADELPHIA

1851? 1 envelope mostly complete; acid in ink has burned through a couple letters, addressed to "Rev. Isaack Leeser Philadelphia" Cancellation reads "New York/Sep 1/5 Cts". 2nd envelope lacks the rear (may have been a letter folded into an envelope) , so front panel only, with nice 1851 US postage..... More

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Item 8312. THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE JEWS

Philippson, Ludwig; Maurice Mayer; Isaac Leeser

Item 34779THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE JEWS

Philadelphia; Jones & Hamilton, Printers, 1866 [5626]. Later paper wrappers. 8vo. IV, 41 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Singerman 1969. By Dr. L. Philippson. Translated from the German, by Maurice Mayer. Preface by Isaac Leeser. Originally serialized in German in the ‘Allgemeine zeitung des judenthums’, simultaneously serialized in English translation..... More

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Item 267073. THE BOOK OF DAILY PRAYERS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR: ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE GERMAN AND POLISH JEWS. SIDUR DIVRE TSADIKIM : KOLEL SEDER HA-TEFILOT MI-KOL HA-SHANAH KE-MINHAG K.K. ASHKENAZ U-POLIN. HUGAH VE-NE’ETAK LI-LESHON ANGLIA ME-ITI YITSHAK BEN URI N. ELI’EZER

[The First English Translation of the Ashkenazi prayer book Published in America] Leeser, Isaac [English text]. Hebrew text by Wolf Heidenheim

Item 42797THE BOOK OF DAILY PRAYERS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR: ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE GERMAN AND POLISH JEWS. SIDUR DIVRE TSADIKIM : KOLEL SEDER HA-TEFILOT MI-KOL HA-SHANAH KE-MINHAG K.K. ASHKENAZ U-POLIN. HUGAH VE-NE’ETAK LI-LESHON ANGLIA ME-ITI YITSHAK BEN URI N. ELI’EZER סדור דברי צדיקים : כולל סדר התפלות מכל השנה כמנהג ק״ק אשכנז ופולין

Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, 1848. 1st edition, original cloth boards, 8vo, viii pages, 243, 242, [2] leaves; 24 cm. In Hebrew and English. Hebrew and English on facing pages with duplicate foliation. Singerman 1024. Rosenbach 636, Deinard 959, Goldman-Kinsberg 37. Vinograd, Philadelphia 18. The first English translation of the..... More

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Item 54682. A DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY AND BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PALESTINE.

Schwarz, Joseph. translated with Introduction by Isaac Leeser.

Item 41318A DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY AND BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PALESTINE.

Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1850. 1st edition. Original illustrated publisher's boards, 8vo, xxii, (2), 17-518, (1), (1 blank).Illustrated With Maps and Numerous Engravings. English interspersed with Hebrew. Frontispiece portrait of author, foldout maps of Land of Israel, lithographed views of Holy Places. Singerman 1161. The nineteenth century saw a dramatic growth..... More

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