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Lot #    23389
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 12:38:04 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Defense not Defiance
Title (Hebrew)    A Hebrew's Reply to the Missionaries
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Frederick de Sola Mendes
City    New York
Publisher    Office of the Independant Hebrew
Publication Date    1876
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 50 pp., errata slip, 194;125 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in the original printed title paper boards, rubbed and split, taped on spine.
          
Paragraph 1    Title: Defence, not defiance: a Hebrew's reply to the missionaries Faith confirmed ... selections from the work "Chizuk emunah" of Isaac Troki, the Karaite. Biblical and rabbinical parallels to New Testament principles. Includes bibliographical references.
          
Detailed
Description		    Frederick de Sola Mendes , American rabbi, author, and editor; born at Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, July 8, 1850; son of R. Abraham Pereira Mendes. He was educated at Northwick College and at University College School, London, and at London University (B.A. 1869). Subsequently he went to Breslau, Germany, where he entered the university and studied rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Mendes received the degree of Ph.D. from Jena University in 1871. Returning to England, he was licensed to preach as rabbi by Haham Benjamin Artom, in London, 1873; in the same year he was appointed preacher of the Great St. Helen's Synagogue of that city, but in December removed to New York, where he had accepted a call to the rabbinate of Shaaray Tefillah congregation (now the West End Synagogue); he entered upon his duties there Jan. 1, 1874. Mendes was one of the founders of the American Hebrew. In 1888 he took part in the Field-Ingersoll controversy, writing for the "North American Review" an article entitled "In Defense of Jehovah." In 1900 Mendes joined the staff of The Jewish Encyclopedia as revising editor and chief of the translation bureau, which positions he resigned Sept., 1902. Associated with Dr. Marcus Jastrow and Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, he is one of the revisers of the "New Bible Translation" in course of publication by the Jewish Publication Society. He has also translated "Jewish Family Papers: Letters of a Missionary," by "Gustav Meinhardt" (Dr. William Herzberg). Of his publications the following may be mentioned: "Child's First Bible"; "Outlines of Bible History"; "Defense not Defiance." He contributed also the article on the "Jews" to "Johnson's Encyclopedia." In 1903 he became for a time editor of "The Menorah," a monthly magazine.
          
Reference
Description		    JE; Singermann 2574
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Other:    Religion
  
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Language:    English
  
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