Bidspirit auction | (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Isaac Mayer Wise.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA) Isaac Mayer Wise. The Combat of the People: Or Hillel and Herod. A Historical Romance of the Times of Herod I. FIRST EDITION. pp. 151. Lightly browned, title remargined, ex-library. Recent boards. Sm. 4to. Singerman 1607. Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., at the office of The Israelite and Deborah 1859 An historical novel by America’s most eminent leader of Reform Judaism. Scholar and founder of the Hebrew Union College, Isaac M. Wise here gives a Jewish perspective to a field so far dominated by Christian writers. Wise writes in his memoirs: “[This] novel was read more widely than anything had ever been read in American Jewish circles…” An historical novel by America’s most eminent leader of Reform Judaism. Scholar and founder of the Hebrew Union College, Isaac M. Wise here gives a Jewish perspective to a field so far dominated by Christian writers. Wise writes in his memoirs: “[This] novel was read more widely than anything had ever been read in American Jewish circles…”