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Stephen S. Wise: servant of the people : selected letters / edited by Carl Hermann Voss. Foreword by Justine Wise Polier and James Waterman Wise.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.
- Wise, Stephen S.
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949--Correspondence.
- Rabbis--United States--Correspondence.
- Rabbis.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, 5729/1969.
- Contents:
- Years of growth (1892-1911)
- The new freedoms (1912-1919)
- America at the crossroads (1920-1932)
- The lonely agony (1933-1939)
- If I forget thee, O Jerusalem (1940-1949).
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- "Designed by Sidney Feinberg."
- "The letters are in chronological order and highlight Stephen Wise's activities as a rabbi and as a public figure"--Dust jacket.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 4823
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