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Lot #    17923
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:32:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    What is Judaism? or, A few words to the Jews.
Author    Raphael De Cordova Lewin
City    New York
Publisher    D. Appleton & Co.
Publication Date    1870
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Cloth, 12mo. 84 pp. Gilt titles. First edition thus. "Notes and references": pages 77-84. Bright purple boards, green endpapers, and still-bright gilt titles; pages and boards are sunned. Front hinge cracked; otherwise, very good condition.
          
Detailed
Description		    Published a year earlier as What is Judaism? A Lecture Before the Mickve Israel Congregation, Savannah, Ga. , March 20th, 1869, Being the First of a Course of Two Lectures on the Subject. Lewin was born in the West Indies, studied in London, and then immigrated to the United States, where he had charge of Hebrew congregations in Shreveport, Louisiana, Savannah, Georgia, and Brooklyn, New York. He published a monthly, The New Era, a weekly, The Jewish Advocate, as well as "What is Judaism?"
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 2218.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica