Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century by Henry Samuel Morais - 1880-01-01

Cincinnati, Ohio; American Hebrew Publishing House. Bloch Publishing Co, 1879. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 371 pages. 20 cm. First edition. Singerman #2935. Decorated endpages. Errata slip tipped in. Not to be confused with the far more common later 1880 edition. A series of 100 biographical sketches of the most renown Jewish personalities of the 19th century. Among them: Isaac Adolphe Cremieux, Isaac D'Israeli, Achille Fould, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, Henry de Worms, etc. "Seventy [of these sketches] have appeared seriatim in The Jewish record. " (Preface) Henry Morais was an "American writer and minister; born May 13, 1860, at Philadelphia, Pa. ; educated at private and public schools of that city. He received his religious instruction from his father, Sabato Morais. For about twelve years he was a teacher in the schools of the Hebrew Education Society and in the Hebrew Sabbath-schools of Philadelphia. Morais was the principal founder and for the first two years managing editor of… Read More