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Americana: Select Sentences: Designed As A Moral Guide-Book For Young Israelites. Philadelphia, 1854.
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Americana: Select Sentences: Designed As A Moral Guide-Book For Young Israelites. Philadelphia, 1854.
An American Jewish educational book, one of the first to be published in America.
First edition of an early pocket-sized moral guide in English. With preface by Rabbi Isaac Leeser.
Published anonymously by Sarah Harris, "a lady of whom I hold in the highest esteem, " writes Rabbi Leeser in his introduction to this little book.
Rabbi Yitzhak Leeser (1806 – 1868): was a Rabbi, preacher, translator, editor, and publisher.
He was the founder of the Jewish press in America and publisher of the first Jewish translation of the Bible in English (see Lots 99 and 100). Rabbi Leeser is considered one of the most important leaders of American Jewry in the 19th century. He was greatly invested in Jewish education, and in the late 1930s authored two books: "The Hebrew Reader" and "Catechism for Younger Children". In the same period, he also opened the Bnei Israel School of Religious Instruction in Philadelphia.
The present text, Select Sentences…A Moral Guide for Young Israelites, prepared (anonymously) by Sarah Harris, continues in the same vein. Rabbi Leeser explains in his preface that “[t]he compiler of the following little work, who is a lady for whom I entertain a high esteem, has had the design to furnish, in a small compass, a number of moral and religious sentences…to impress the young mind with correct thoughts, and cannot do otherwise than influence the more mature with sentiments of devotion and resignation to the Divine will.”
The book organizes short quotations from the Bible and Pirkei Avot, paraphrases of other sources, and independent observations, into twenty-eight chapters of religious and moral sayings. Among its pearls of wisdom are: "Whatever God has intended you for, you may safely trust Him to bring you to" (pp. 22-23), and "Guilt upon the conscience will make a feather bed hard; but peace of mind will make a straw bed soft and easy." (p. 141).
Leeser points out that "a collection like the present has until now been wanting among English and American Israelites." The commercial success and popularity of the publication is indicated by a printing of a new edition seven years later, in 1861.
Philadelphia, 1854. Americana.
200 p. Very good condition. Slight rub and tear on the title page. Gilded page trimming. Nice original cloth binding.
Singerman 1325.
An American Jewish educational book, one of the first to be published in America. Extremely rare.
First edition of an early pocket-sized moral guide in English. With preface by Rabbi Isaac Leeser.
Published anonymously by Sarah Harris, "a lady of whom I hold in the highest esteem, " writes Rabbi Leeser in his introduction to this little book.
Rabbi Yitzhak Leeser (1806 – 1868): was a Rabbi, preacher, translator, editor, and publisher.
He was the founder of the Jewish press in America and publisher of the first Jewish translation of the Bible in English (see Lots 99 and 100). Rabbi Leeser is considered one of the most important leaders of American Jewry in the 19th century. He was greatly invested in Jewish education, and in the late 1930s authored two books: "The Hebrew Reader" and "Catechism for Younger Children". In the same period, he also opened the Bnei Israel School of Religious Instruction in Philadelphia.
The present text, Select Sentences…A Moral Guide for Young Israelites, prepared (anonymously) by Sarah Harris, continues in the same vein. Rabbi Leeser explains in his preface that “[t]he compiler of the following little work, who is a lady for whom I entertain a high esteem, has had the design to furnish, in a small compass, a number of moral and religious sentences…to impress the young mind with correct thoughts, and cannot do otherwise than influence the more mature with sentiments of devotion and resignation to the Divine will.”
The book organizes short quotations from the Bible and Pirkei Avot, paraphrases of other sources, and independent observations, into twenty-eight chapters of religious and moral sayings. Among its pearls of wisdom are: "Whatever God has intended you for, you may safely trust Him to bring you to" (pp. 22-23), and "Guilt upon the conscience will make a feather bed hard; but peace of mind will make a straw bed soft and easy." (p. 141).
Leeser points out that "a collection like the present has until now been wanting among English and American Israelites." The commercial success and popularity of the publication is indicated by a printing of a new edition seven years later, in 1861.
Philadelphia, 1854. Americana.
200 p. Very good condition. Slight rub and tear on the title page. Gilded page trimming. Nice original cloth binding.
Singerman 1325.
An American Jewish educational book, one of the first to be published in America. Extremely rare.
