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Bidding Information
Lot #    4937
Auction End Date    6/25/2003 12:54:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    A Manual of Judaism
Author    [First Edition] Joshua Van Oven
City    London
Publisher    J. Wertheimer
Publication Date    1835
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    XIV, [1], 154 p., 12 mo., 149:98 mm., light browning, ex-lib. A very good copy bound in contemporary dark green cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    First edition.
          
Detailed
Description		    A Manual of Judaism, Detailed in a Conversation between a Rabbi and His Pupil; being an introduction into the knowledge of the principles of the Jewish faith, for the use of the juvenile members of that persuasion.
          
Paragraph 2    Joshua Van Oven (1766–1838), was surgeon to the Great Synagogue and a leading figure in London communal life. His Letters on the Present State of the Jewish Poor in the Metropolis (London, 1802), in answer to the strictures of the magistrate Patrick Colquhoun, initiated a systematic attempt to grapple with the social problems of London Jewry. He was Foremost among the founders of the Jews' Free School and published this lot, a Manual of Judaism in 1835 for school use.
          
Reference
Description		    Roth, Magna p. 428, # 6; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Children’s Literature:    Checked
Other:    Philosophy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica