(JUDAICA) Chronik Isaac Loew editor Zeichen der Zeit

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(JUDAICA.) Chronik, Isaac Loew, editor. Zeichen der Zeit. 12 monthly issues in one volume. [4], 192 pages including collective title and ad leaf. 8vo, contemporary cloth gilt, minor wear and dampstaining; June issue cropped with loss of page numbers, bookmark toning to a few leaves, later inked note on rarity on front pastedown. Chicago, January to December 1869

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A complete run of Chicago's first Jewish periodical (later issues published in Europe not included). Editor Chronik was an outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism; in 1860 he had been nearly killed by a Jewish mob in Amsterdam before coming to Chicago as rabbi for Sinai, Chicago's first Reformed congregation. "Sinai's members realized they had employed the wrong man. Chronik was too academic, too German, and too radical. . . . Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Times) . . . covered many interesting subjects years ahead of time, such as the theology of Buddhism and women's suffrage"--Brinkmann, Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago, pages 70-71. "A German monthly with a Reform tendency, soon paid the penalty for the caustic tone it adopted"--1907 Jewish Encyclopedia, page 9:608. These 12 issues were all that were published in Chicago; after his departure from Sinai, Chronik continued the publication in Germany through 1883. Cutler, Jews of Chicago, page 25; Singermann S449; not in Lomazow. None traced at auction.