Discourses Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia 1867.

Discourses Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia 1867.
Collected sermons by Rev Issac Leeser Volume I only of the original ten volumes.
Central to the legacy of Rev Isaac Leeser are the more than 250 sermons that he delivered over his lifetime. In 1837, he issued Discourses, a two-volume anthology of 52 sermons—the first anthology of sermons by an American Jew. In 1867 (the final year of his life), he began to edit a third series of sermons for publication and managed to prepare six volumes for publication before his passing. A seventh volume was edited posthumously by his colleague, Judge Mayer Sulzberger. The seven volumes of the third series were published together with a reissue of the first three volumes to form a ten volume set. His decision to print the ten-volume anthology was motivated by the recognition that it would serve as his lasting legacy for the “new generation that has sprung up… I hope that the heart of the vast majority of Israelites will still respond to the instructions laid before them now, as was the case three decennia ago, when I was perhaps the only Jewish public speaker in America” (Vol. I, p. vii).
Sherman press. 1, 12, 410 pages. 19 cm. Fine condition. Title page chipped. Modern binding.
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