(JUDAICA) [Simms William Gilmore; editor] The Charleston Boo

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(JUDAICA.) [Simms, William Gilmore; editor.] The Charleston Book: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse. viii, [5]-404 pages. 12mo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear; minor foxing and wear, a few gatherings coming sprung; early pencil owner's signatures on front pastedown and title page. Charleston, SC: Samuel Hart, 1845

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A compilation of literature from Charleston, SC. The city's large Jewish community was represented by Isaac Harby's essay "The Fall of Jerusalem," which celebrates "the free-born Jew, the citizen of these enlightened States, raising once more the brow of manhood and proud equality" (pages 46-49). See also Penina Moise's short story, "The Turnkey" (pages 363-369), her poem "Miriam" (pages 94-95), and Lewis Charles Levin's poem "The Frozen Dew-Drop" (pages 163-164). Among the notable gentile authors are Washington Allston, Hugh S. Legaré, and Joel Roberts Poinsett. Sabin 12038; Singerman 0918.