POST-BIBLICAL HISTORY: A COMPENDIUM OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE CLOSE OF THE BIBLICAL RECORDS TO THE PRESENT DAY.... FOR THE HOME AND SABBATH-SCHOOL
Cincinnati, OH: The Bloch Publishing and Printing Co., 1896. Hardcover. Octavo, 8 oin. x 5.4 in. pp. vii, 3-280. Brown cloth bpards with black cursive title and horizontal lines stamped to front. Rubbing to extremitiesCorners lightly nudged and just showing. Previous owner's lengthy and touching Bar Mitzvah gift inscription, dated 1913, and sealing stamp from Jewish National Fund depicting Theodore Herzl, to front pastedown. Two inch closed tear to rear flyleaf. Light age-toning to pages. Good Plus. Item #87758
Sigmund Hecht (1849–1925) was a Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi. An immigrant to the United States, he served congregations in Alabama and Wisconsin before serving as the fifth rabbi of Congregation B'nai B'rith, the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles, California, from 1899 to 1919. (from Wikipedia).
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