SIX LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE TEMPLE ADATH JESHURUN ... ON RELIGION: I. IN THEORY. II. IN PRACTICE. III. AS AN IDEAL. IV. IN HISTORY. V. IN SOCIETY. VI. IN ISRAEL
Philadelphia: Adath Jeshurun, 1889. Item #43447
1st edition. Original Salmon Printed Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 36 pages. Cover title: “Six Lectures on Religion.” Singerman 3797.
Henry Iliowizi (1850-1911) was an “American rabbi and author; born in…Russia…. His father was affiliated with the Hasidim. Iliowizi was educated at first in the local heder, afterward at the yeshibah of Vietka, where he studied under Rabbi Bear, and later at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Berlin, Breslau, London, and Paris….
Iliowizi became a teacher in the schools of the Anglo-Jewish Association and of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. From 1877 to 1880 he taught in the Alliance's school at Tetuan, Morocco. In July, 1880, he emigrated to New York. For a brief time he was minister of a congregation at Harrisonburg, Virginia; from 1880 to 1888, rabbi of the Congregation Sha'aré Tob in Minneapolis; and from 1888 to 1900, of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Philadelphia” (Cyrus Adler & A. M. Friedenberg in EJ).
OCLC: 79633978. Singerman and OCLC together locate only 3 copies worldwide (UPenn, JTSA, NLI), only 2 in North America.
Jewish institutional stamps to margins of front cover and title page, as well as to blank rear of front wrapper; wear to spine, Good+ Condition. Rare. (B) (AMR-59-2).
Price: $425.00