Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Americans of Jewish Descent; a Compendium of Genealogy [1/550]

Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio (11-1/4" x 17-1/2"). (22), 307, (1)pp. Index. Light green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Endpaper maps. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies (this is #301). Some light soiling. Extremities starting to fray but binding is still sound. Rubber stamp of "Temple B'nai Abraham of Newark, N. J." on several preliminary leaves.

"In a modest way the American Jewish Archives has set out to fashion the basic research instruments necessary to further the science of American Jewish history. In the historian's tool chest, there are few utensils more helpful than genealogist tables. These tables will help illuminate almost every document of early American Jewry, for they reveal relationships never before suspected and shed light on obscure references that up to now have baffled the most skillful of researchers. The rise of communities will be documented here; the interplay of intramarriage between Jewish natives and Jewish newcomers will be visible on every page. Here, most graphically, one can trace the assimilatory influence of intermarriage, and notice, not without irony, the unbroken line that leads from a Polish Jewish immigrant peddler to an American ambassador to one of the Great Powers". Publications of the American Jewish Archives - Number V. g+ to vg-. Item #50725

Price: $500.00

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