Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(JUDAICA.) Leeser, Isaac. The Testimony: An Address Delivered at the Schoolhouse of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia [caption title]. 19 pages. 8vo, original printed front wrapper, toned with moderate wear, lacking rear wrapper; minor wear to contents. Philadelphia, 5611 [1851]

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This address celebrated the opening of the day school launched by the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia, the first of its kind in the city. "It has always been to me a subject of profound astonishment and deep regret, that there was not a single school all over the country, until very lately, where a Jewish child could obtain any information on his religion" (page 9). Singerman 1195.