1849 HEBREW BIBLE antique ISAAC LESSER BIBLIA HEBRAICA Judaica 1st AMERICAN ed.

img{max-width:100%} Tora nevi'im u-ketuvim (Hebraice). Hebrew Bible Biblia hebraica Everardi van der Hooght Philadelphia: Sumptibus Johannis W. Moore, 1849. First American edition of the Hebrew Bible with vocalized and cantillated text. Published by Isaac Leeser with the assistance of Joseph Jaquett. With preface in Latin by Isaac Leeser, one of the most prominent and influential figures in American-Jewish history. Although Leeser had virtually no rabbinic contemporaries in America with whom to confer, he nonetheless persevered in the task of preparing many important Hebrew texts for publication. This was in addition to the many other rabbinic duties he undertook in his noble mission to disseminate Torah true Judaism in unfamiliar and often hostile surroundings. Extremely scarce. The first Hebrew Bible in America, published by William Fry at Philadelphia in 1814, was from the text of Van der Hooght, and it was reprinted in Philadelphia by Isaac Leeser in