The Jew, at Home and Abroad. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1845. First Edition. [10500]
Black cloth spine, marbled boards, paper title label scuffed, small worm holes in the backstrip, corner tips frayed, 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches, tight. [2], 5-188 pp., complete; several woodcut illustrations including a frontispiece plate of the interior of a synagogue. Good. Hardcover.
The addresses of the ASSU being 1122 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia and 375 Broadway, New York.
Eight chapters and an appendix describing the religious life of the Jew as well as their habits, common trades, and some of the enclaves of Jews in Europe. The last several chapters describe Bible prophecies and their fulfillment in Jesus Christ, as well as those yet unfulfilled regarding the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.
Some of the topics within the chapters are The Jew in London; Jewish Quarters; Dealers in Old Clothes; The Jew on his Sabbath; Our obligations to his Race; Prophecies in reference to the Jews; The Jew in his Domestic Circumstances; M'zuzah; Phylacteries; Marriage Ceremonies; Funeral Ceremonies; Jewish Synagogues; Chants and Recitatives; Revolt of the Jews; Targums; Oral Law; Talmudic Associations; Mishna Society; Association for reading the book Agadoth; Resemblance between Modern Judaism and Romanism; The Cabala' The Karaite Jews; The Ten Tribes; State of the Jewish Mind in the present Day; Fulfilment of Prophecy in reference to Christianity; Appeal to the Skeptic and the Jew; Moses Mendelssohn; Solomon Marochan; Prophecies of Israel's Conversion.
