The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals
One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's. A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.
Local ID: 2177
Estimated Value: $4,000
| Title: | Jew; Being a Defense of Judaism Against All Adversaries, and Particularly Against the Insidious Attacks of Israel’s Advocate |
| Category: | Religion, Judaism |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1-12 |
| Date: | March 1823 – February 1824 |
| Published in: | New York, NY |
| The first American periodical devoted to Judaism, primarily a defensive instrument against missionaries, edited by S. H. Jackson. The second volume is extremely scarce (present in facsimile). The most successful and long-running early Jewish periodicals was ‘The Occident” published in Philadelphia between 1843 and 1869. Edgar: p. 69; Albaugh 444. | |