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(Jt) Raphael, R(aphael) B(er) : SHE'ELATH HA'YEHUDIM - THE JEWISH QUESTION. NACHLATH AVOTH-SHAILOTH HA'YEHUDIM [on the return to Zion]. FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume

No Place (Newark), Ephraim Deinard, 1893

(2), 224, viii. Pages. 8vo. Singerman 4578; Deinard, Koheleth America, 765; Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 939. Includes divisional title between the two parts. An interesting example of the Zionistic aspirations of American Jewry, proclaiming that only in the Land of Israel will the Jews be safe from anti-Semitism and thus further develop a deeper spiritual life. Discusses the various alternatives that lay before the Jewish people - Orthodoxy, Reform, Zionism - and the advantages and drawbacks of each. For an analysis of the work, see I.C. Selevan, A Pre-Herzlian Jewish State, in: AJHQ, March, 1977 pp. 432-5. The second part is an anti-Reform polemic. Appears to lack the fold-out Hebrew poem and illustration: "Tzion ve'America". Later wrappers, wear to first and final leaves, margin stains throughout. (heb-7-18)

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