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Lot #		17924
Auction End Date		4/24/2007 12:33:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Epitome of Post-Biblical History for

Title (Hebrew)

Jewish-American Sabbath-Schools

Author

Samuel Hirsch; Sigmund Hecht

City

Cincinnati

Publisher

Bloch

Publication Date

1882

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

First edition? [5], 4-128, [2] pp., 210:138 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original leather with gilt titles, bands, and decorations, red edges and decorative endpapers. Edgeworn, has bookplate identifying it as a prize presented to Isaac Horn by the Religions-Schule der Reform Gem. Keneseth Israel of Philadelphia, dated 1886 and signed by superintendent Rabbi Hirsch. Good condition.

Detailed
Description

Adapted from the German of David Leimdoerfer and considerably enlarged. Chronological Table at end. Sigmund Hecht was minister of Kahl Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama. His purpose in writing the book, stated in the Preface, is to provide educators with a tool with which to teach young Jews that "the history of their people, after the close of the Biblical annals, is fraught with valuable information, with sublime lessons and with examples worthy of emulation...[to] fill them with pride for Judaism and make them its warm supporters and defenders. "

Reference
Description

Singerman 2992

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