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(AMERICAN JUDAICA) Isaac Mayer Wise. The First of the Maccabees. FIRST EDITION. Title page set in typographic border. pp. 180. Ex-library, foxed and stained in places. Later boards with original upper printed wrapper bound in. 8vo. Singerman 1697. Cincinnati: Bloch 1860 The First of the Maccabees was originally serialized under a pseudonym in “The Israelite” a Jewish weekly founded by Wise. Later, against Wise’s wishes, it was printed by Howard Bloch under his real name. The novel covers the events of the Hasmonean era. According to Wise’s autobiography, he wrote it in order to fill the void of English-language Jewish fiction. The First of the Maccabees was originally serialized under a pseudonym in “The Israelite” a Jewish weekly founded by Wise. Later, against Wise’s wishes, it was printed by Howard Bloch under his real name. The novel covers the events of the Hasmonean era. According to Wise’s autobiography, he wrote it in order to fill the void of English-language Jewish fiction.