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Bidding Information
Lot #    33293
Auction End Date    3/13/2012 10:33:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Greater Lights
Title (Hebrew)    II. The Light of the Orient
Author    [First Ed.] R. Joseph Leonard Levy
City    Philadelphia
Publisher    Sam'l W. Goodman
Publication Date    1895
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [2], 10 pp.,8°, 225:140 mm., nice margins, usual age staining. A good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homily by R. Joseph Leonard Levy (1865–1917), U.S. Reform rabbi. Levy was born in London. He graduated from the University of London in 1884 and was trained for the Orthodox ministry at Jews College, London. From 1885 to 1889 he served the Bristol Hebrew Congregation. In 1889 he went to the United States as rabbi to a congregation in Sacramento, California, and from 1893 to 1901 he was assistant rabbi at Congregation Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia. From 1901 to 1917 he was rabbi of Congregation Rodef Shalom, Pittsburgh. During the Spanish-American War he was an army chaplain for a short period. Levy was famous in his day as a preacher; about 16 volumes of his sermons were published. He was active in local and international peace associations and in health, housing, and other welfare organizations in Pittsburgh.
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman S347; EJ
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica