Israel vindicated : being a refutation of the calumnies propagated respecting the Jewish nation : in which the object and views of the American Society for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews, are investigated / by an Israelite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, George, -1840, author.

Contributor:

Collins, Abraham, publisher.

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews.

Jews--Conversion to Christianity.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

United States.

Genre:

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Houston, George, -1840 (inscription) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Constable, D. (inscription) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 110 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Published by Abraham Collins, 268 Greenwich-Street, 1820.

Notes:

In a series of letters signed "Nathan Joseph." Generally attributed to George Houston.

Copyright Nov. 29, 1820, by Abraham Collins.

"Price 62 1-2 cts."--Wrapper.

Last page blank.

Errata on page [111].

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy has manuscript bibliographical note in pencil on front free endpaper.

Kaplan Collection copy: Collectify accession no. 2020.10.27.00002.

Kaplan Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (sold by Nate Saunders, lot 307, 13 October 2020).

Kaplan Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript provenance inscription ("From the Author to D Constable Decr. 1820. 45.") on front pastedown; dated 19th-century manuscript provenance inscription ("New York. Decr. 1820. 45. US F from the author Geo Houston to D Constable.") on front free endpaper.

Kaplan Collection copy has partially illegible dated 19th-century autograph ("Susan [...]ece March 1835") on title leaf.

Kaplan Collection copy bound in full mottled leather; gold-ruled spine panels.

Cited in:

Shoemaker 1681

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Amer. Jewish bib., 210

Singerman, R. Judaica Americana, 0323

OCLC:

876879151