[OCLC/Singerman Locate Only 1 Set with These Issues] Lewin, Raphael D’c. (De Cordova), editor.

THE NEW ERA: A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF RELIGION AND HUMANITY AND TO THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON JUDAISM AND JEWISH LITERATURE. VOL III: NRS 7 (July 1873), 9 (Sept 1873), 10 (Oct 1873), 11 (Nov 1873), & 12 (Dec 1873) VOL VI: NRS 1 (JAN 1876) & 2 (FEB 1876). [7 ISSUES FROM 2 VOLUMES]

New York, New Era Publishing Company, 1873, 1876. Item #43531

1st edition. Period half-leather 8vo. v, [257]-304, [337]-[470], [1]-128 pages [314 pages total]. Singerman S250.

Articles include:
-Defense of Our National System of Education Against the Attacks of the Catholic Press. By Lara.
-The Modern Balaks and Balaams.
-The Picture Bit. By Medrash Echoch
-The Island of Jewels. By Charlotte Montefiore.
-Rabbi Joshua‘s Application of the Lion and the Crane.
-The Cruelty of Hadrian. By Medrash Echoh
-On The Life and Writings of King David. By Dr. J.L. Levison.
-The Golden Ladder of Charity. From Maimonides, After The Talmud.
-The Death-Bed of Hillel.
-Literary Notices.
-God’s Truth and Man’s Truth. By Charlotte Montefiore.
-Rabbinical Aphorisms.
-Heaven Upon Earth.
-Work and Prayer
-The Little Trout. A Little Story for Little Readers.
-Sketches From the History of the Jews. Translated From the German of Dr. Zunz. By Rev. B.H. Ascher.
-Dissertation on the Talmudical and Rabbinical Writings. By James Townley, D.D.
-Don Isaac Orobio De Castro.
-The State.
-The Little Girl Kind and Witty. By Medrash Echoh.
-The Lawful Heir, Or The Wise Will. By Medrash Tanchuma.
-Alexander and the Female Chief.
-Sammael.--A Talmudic Allegory.
-Jealousy. By R.M. Fuller.
-The Last Will of Rabbi Moses Maimonides.
-A New Version of an Old Story. By Rev. M.M. Mann.
-Honor Whatever Is Truly Useful. By T. Shabbat.
-Destiny! By R.M. Fuller.
-The Past, Present, and Future. By John Storer Cobb.
-Reuchlin’s Defence of the Talmud.
-On the Character of Moses As A Lawgiver and A Sanatory Philosopher. By Dr. J.L. Levison.
-Thoughts on the Day of Rest. By Charlotte Montefiore.
-The Gattiad; Or, Nature and Art. A Lecture to an Absent Audience. By D.E. De Lara.
-Memoirs of Moses Mendelssohn. By M. Samuels.
-The Bible and the Declaration of Independence–Jewish Thoughts In American Garb. From
-A Sermon Delivered on Thanksgiving Day By Rev. Dr. F. De Sola Mendes, At the
-Forty-Fourth Street Synagogue, N.Y.
-Henry Wilson [Obituary, VP of the US].

Jewish Events:
-The United Hebrew Charities.
-The Young Men’s Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal.
-The Purim Association of Baltimore.
-Installation of A New B’nai B’rith Lodge.
-The Jewish Institution For the Blind At Vienna.
-The Memory of the Late Michael Henry.
-The Jewish Foster-Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia.
-The Philadelphia Hebrew Charity Ball.
-The Ladies Sewing Society of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
-The Jews of Tunis.
-Current Topics.
-The Immortality of the Soul A Cardinal Doctrine of Judaism.
-Lie and Art. By A. Illch.
-The Letter and the Spirit. A Sermon by Rev. Raphael D’C. Lewin.
-A Plea for English Prayers (from the Editorial Department).

Jonathan Sarna, in American Judaism, notes that "A liberal Jewish periodical entitled the New Era, initiated in 1870 by Rabbi Raphael De Cordova Lewin, promised to 'advance mankind in true religious knowledge and to unite all God's children in a common bond of brotherhood.' By its third volume, it claimed the second largest circulation ‘of any Jewish organ.' (p. 124).

A total of 6 volumes were published. The New Era reports on Jewish and larger cultural and scientific concerns of the day from a liberal Jewish perspective. For example, the Journal was important in exposing conditions at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York [For an extensive discussion of Lewin’s examination and expose in the pages of The New Era, see Hyman Bogen’s “The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York” (Urbana-Champaign, 1992) ].

Raphael De Cordova Lewin (West Indies, 1844 - New York 1886) studied in London, and then came to the United States, leading Jewish congregations in Shreveport, Louisiana, Savannah, Georgia, and Brooklyn, New York. In addition to "The New Era," he also published a short-lived Jewish monthly in Jamaica (“The Guide…”), a weekly (“The Jewish Advocate”), "What is Judaism? ” (1870) and other works.
Ferris and Greenberg note in “Jewish Roots in Southern Soil,” that Lewin married the Rabbi Abraham Einstein's daughter Adeline in 1867 in Augusta GA, the same year Abraham became president of Savannah's Mickve Israel, and son-in-law Lewin was hired to be leader of the reform congregation—a position from which he was fired, apparently for being too Reform. Korn (1966) notes that “Additional biographic details about Lewin...are given in Jacob A. P. M. Andrade, 'A Record of the Jews in Jamaica' (Kingston, 1941) ...The Occident…[and] The Israelite (Cincinnati) ...Lewin continued to write, edit, and publish until his death in 1886.”

OCLC: 504166942. OCLC and Singerman together locate 12 holdings, though only 1 holding (Cornell) includes the final two issues present here (Vol VI, Nrs 1 & 2).

Spine rebacked, wear to boards, internally bright and strong, Good Condition. (BER-1-4).

Price: $1,000.00