Item 9569. A DEFENSE OF JUDAISM VERSUS PROSELYTIZING CHRISTIANITY.

A DEFENSE OF JUDAISM VERSUS PROSELYTIZING CHRISTIANITY.

Item #37534

Cincinnati and Chicago: American Israelite, 1889. Cloth; 8vo. 129 pages. Embossed boards; gilt titles; red edges; floral endpapers. Not the more common Bloch edition. One page of the author's other works at end, with prices and descriptions. First edition. Isaac Mayer Wise was an American Reform rabbi, author, and organizer; editor of the American Israelite and Deborah, and of the Minhag America, the first common American prayer book, which preceded the Union Prayer Book. A Defense of Judaism is a dignified and reasoned response to the insulting proselytizing of Christian missionaries and their vulgar, illiterate converts, written, as he states in his preface, from the "standpoint of universal brotherhood, universal salvation and universal religion, moral freedom, political equality and the supremacy of reason, with the highest respect for Judaism, Christianity, the Isam and every other religion in harmony with the postulate of reason and the standard of conscience. " Singerman 3875. SUBJECT (S) : Christianity -- Controversial literature. Judaism -- Apologetic works. During his lifetime Wise was regarded as the most prominent Jew of his time in the United States. Ex-library; otherwise, very good condition. (AMR-7-4A).

Price: $150.00

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