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Lot #    23396
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 12:32:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Hebrews in America
Title (Hebrew)    a series of historical and biographical sketches
Author    [First Ed.] Isaac Markens
City    New York
Publisher    Isaac Markens
Publication Date    1888
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. VII, 352 pp., 200:140 mm., usual light age staining, crisp margins. A very good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    An oft reprinted historical work on the Jews in America by Isaac Markens (1846-1928). American writer, he was born in New York city to Elias Markens, a linguist and Orientalist. Isaac Markens was educated in the public schools of his native city. He became a merchant, and afterward private secretary to Railway Commissioner Albert Fink. Subsequently he entered the journalistic field, and wrote for the New York "Commercial Advertiser" and the "Mail and Express." In 1888 he published "The Hebrews in America," a series of historical and biographical sketches of value as being the first of their kind on American Jewish history. Markens was for several years secretary to the board of arbitration of the Joint Executive Committee of Eastern and Western Railways.A.
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 3706; JE
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica