Judaism: Its Doctrines and Duties
Cincinnati: Office of the Israelite, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 83pp. Blind-embossed brown cloth with title in gold on cover, protected by modern mylar. "As a literary production this little book shows: 1. There is a religion without mysteries or miracles, rational and self-evident. 2. This rational religion is taught in the Bible, called, in the Gentile phraseology, the Old Testament. 3. This scriptural and rational religion is Judaism. 4. Judaism, in its doctrines and duties, is eminently humane, universal, liberal, and progressive; in perfect harmony with modern science, criticism, and philosophy, and in full sympathy with universal liberty, equality, justice, and charity." (Introduction). Isaac Meir Wise was the founder of Reform Judaism in America, Dean of the Hebrew Union College and wrote this basic manual on Jewish practice and belief at the time of the revised prayer book, Minhag America. Some wear along edges, small chips along edges and spine and very light fraying at head and tail of spine. Endpapers with light foxing. Title page brwoned. Block with minor age-toning. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ condition.ì. g- to g+. Item #47848
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