Bidspirit auction | (AMERICAN-JUDAICA). Leopold Stein. Family Scenes

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA). Leopold Stein. Family Scenes from Jewish Life of Former Days from Original Oil Paintings by Prof. M[oritz] Oppenheim. English and German on facing columns. pp. 15. Unbound. Tall 8vo. Unrecorded by Singerman. New York: M. Samelson 1866 EARLY WORK OF JEWISH ART IN AMERICA. Prepared for an American audience, this essay was to introduce the artwork of Moritz Oppenheim to the Jewish community of New York. Oppenheim’s paintings of idyllic scenes of 18th-century German-Jewish life are here movingly described.