Bidspirit auction | MORAIS, HENRY SAMUEL. The Jews

MORAIS, HENRY SAMUEL. The Jews of Philadelphia. Their History from the earliest Settlements to the Present Time. A record of events and institutions, and of leading members of the Jewish community in every sphere of activity. FIRST EDITION.  Opening blank INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. pp. xv, 576 + ads. Original boards, broken. 4to. Philadelphia, The Levytype Compamy, 1894. Born in Philadelphia, Henry Samuel Morais (1860-1935) received his religious instruction from his father, Rabbi Sabato Morais, the founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Henry Morais served as acting minister of the Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia and later as minister of the Adath Yeshurun congregation, Syracuse, New York, and of the Jeshuat Israel congregation at Newport, Rhode Island.