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Panegyric on the Life, Character and Services of the Rev. Isaac Leeser – Eulogy by Moses Aaron Dropsie – Philadelphia, 1868
Panegyric on the Life, Character and Services of the Rev. Isaac Leeser, Pronounced by Moses A. Dropsie Before the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia on February 19, 1868 (5628). Philadelphia: Jones & Co., 1868. English.
Isaac Leeser (1806-1868), rabbi, publisher, scholar and a prominent leaders of American Jewry in the pre-civil war era. Leeser served as rabbi of the Mikveh Israel and Beth-El-Emeth congregations in Philadelphia, where he also worked as a publisher. He also wrote historical and theological works.
Moses Aaron Dropsie (1821-1905), an attorney and philanthropist born in Philadelphia. He was president of the Jewish Education Society of Philadelphia, which was founded by Isaac Leeser, and an active member of many other commercial, religious and social organizations. He was the president of the Maimonides College, president of the local branch of Alliance Israélite Universelle and president of the Gratz College. He also wrote and translated works on Roman law. Dropsie's estate funded the creation of the The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning – America's first degree-granting institution for post-doctoral Jewish studies.
This booklet presents the panegyric Dropsie delivered to the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia two and a half weeks after Leeser's death, paying tribute to Leeser's work of cultivating Jewish education and life in the USA and his contribution to Jewish publishing in the United States.
11 pp, 23 cm. Fair-good condition. Detached leaves. Tears, some open, to margins (not affecting text). Some stains. Thin and brittle paper.
