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Digital Second Edition of Robert Singerman's Judaica Americana
  • Collection: Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Munn, Charles Clark. Pocket Island: A Story of Country Life in New England. New York: Abbey Press, [c1900]. 185 p., 12 p. of adv.

Wolf, a Polish Jew, is a peddler in partnership with a Micmac Indian. Wright III:3880.

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Friedsell, Louis. [Der yeshiveh bokhur]. Jeshiwo bochur. Sung by David Kessler. New York: Katzenelenbogen & Rabinowitz, c1900. score (11 p.).

For contents, see Heskes 44. Entry based on New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., c1900, reprint. Copies: DLC (Music Division, Heskes Collection, box 1, no. 44), MH, RPB, National Library of Israel.

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Friedman, Dov Aryeh b. Leib. [Arithmetik; oder, Der rekhen-lehrer. A praktishes methode zikh oystsulernen di kunst fun rekhene, un vi tsu makhen allerei khezhboynes vos iz nethig in leben]. New York: M. Chinsky, 1900. 74 p., [6] p. of adv.



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Freedberg, Louis. Hanoroth Halolu. For Piano. Boston: I. M. Greenwald, c1900. score (5, [1] p.).

On p. [6], "My song is for her." Words by Morris Rosenfeld. Music by Louis Freedberg. Copyright date is 1898.

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Federation of American Zionists. Third Convention of Federation of American Zionists held in New York, June 11th and 12th 1900. Republished from the Jewish Exponent by Hazopheh at the Request of Philadelphia Zion Society and Ahavat Zion Society of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Hazopheh, [1900]. 20 p.



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Fair & Entertainment of the Cong. Anshe Russia K.U.V. on May 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31, 1900, at Lyric Hall, 301 Plane Street, Newark, N.J. Benefit for the Erection of New Synagogue. ... [Newark]: L. Nurkin, Printer, [1900]. folded leaf.



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Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York, 1900. Report of the Ecumenical Missionary Conference on Foreign Missions, held in Carnegie Hall and Neighboring Churches, April 21 to May 1. New York: American Tract Society, 1900. 2 vols.

"The Hebrews" (vol. 1, pp. 443-49), has reports by J. Fairley Daly, Glasgow ("The Jews of Europe"); David W. Torrance, Tiberias ("The Jews of Palestine"), and Mark Levy, New York ("Duty of Missions to the Jews"). Titles are taken from the session program in vol. 2, p. 358, "Hebrews in All Lands," chaired by A. T. Pierson, New York (the text of Pierson’s "The Jewish Question" is not found in this set).

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Dessar, Leo Charles. A Royal Enchantress. The Romance of the Last Queen of the Berbers. With Illustrations by B. Martin Justice. New York: Continental Publishing Co., 1900. 350 p.

"The grandmother of Cahina was Naomi, wife of Ibn, the Berber king. She was a Jewess and a woman of strong, upright character, who made a more moral noble man of the King" (p. 16). Cahina, the Berber queen, is also known as Kahina or Dihya.

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Cushing, Luther Stearns. [Koshing’s hand-bukh der parlementarishen praktis. ...]. Cushing’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice. Translated into Yiddish by A. Tanenbaum. New York: J. Katzenelenbogen, [c1900]. v, 137 p.



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Carrel, Frederic. The Progress of Pauline Kessler. Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1900. 335 p., 7, 10 p. of adv.

The story of Pauline Kessler, "Born twenty-two years previously of an English-Jewish mother by an Italian father, himself of semi-Jewish origin ...," p. 5.

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Brewer, David J., ed. The World’s Best Orations, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... Home and School Library Edition. St. Louis: Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1900. 10 vols.

See Richard Gottheil, "The Jews as a Race and as a Nation" (vol. 6, pp. 2294-98), and Thomas Babington Macaulay, "A Tribute to the Jews" (vol. 8, pp. 2886-87).

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Goldfaden, Abraham. [Bar Kokhba (der zuhn fun dem shtern); oder, Di letste teg fun Yerusholayim. A muzikalishe melodramma in raymen, in 4 akten mit a prolog, in 14 bilder]. New York: B. Rabinowitz, 1900. 80 p., [4] p. of adv.



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Harkavy, Alexander. [Der englisher brifenshteller]. The English Letter-writer. New York: Jos. I. Werbelowsky, 1900 [c1892]. 94 p.

"Supplement to English in America."

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Haggard, E. Rider. Elissa: The Doom of Zimbabwe. Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll. Illustrated. New York, London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, 1900. x, 246, 105 p., [22] p. of adv.

Prince Aziel is the grandson of King Solomon, "the mighty king of Israel, and born of a royal mother, a princess of Egypt" (Elissa, pp. 3-4).

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Harkavy, Alexander. [Kolumbus; oder, Di entdekung fun Amerike]. New York: M. Chinsky, [1900?]. 31, [1] p.



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Harrison, Mitchell Charles, ed. New York State’s Prominent and Progressive Men: An Encyclopædia of Contemporary Biography. [New York]: New York Tribune, 1900-02. 3 vols.

In the order of appearance: William Nathan Cohen (vol. 1, pp. 72-73, port.); Henry Seligman (vol. 1, pp. 346-48, port.); Isaac Newton Seligman (vol. 1, pp. 349-53); Hugo Blumenthal (vol. 2, pp. 16-17, port.); Samuel Greenbaum (vol. 3, pp. 137-38, port.).

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Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819-1899. With Portraits and other Illustrations. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. vi, 465, [1] p.

As a teenager in New York City, the author received music lessons from Lorenzo Da Ponte (p. 24), also lessons in German from Prof. Isaac Nordheimer (p. 59).

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Laurie, Simon Somerville. Historical Survey of Pre- Christian Education. Second Edition, Revised. New York, London, Bombay: Longmans, Green, 1900. xi, 411 p., 8 p. of adv.

"The Semitic Races": pp. [49]-100 ("The Hebrews or Jews," pp. 65-100). "In this second edition I have made corrections—these, however, verbal except in the chapter on the Jews" (from the author’s "Note to Second Edition").

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National Relief Commission. Report of the Executive Committee of the National Relief Commission organized "For the Care of Sick and Wounded Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, and for the Relief of the Families of Combatants" during the War between the Republic of the United States and the Kingdom of Spain. Formed April 25, 1898. Headquarters: Drexel Building, Philadelphia. [Philadelphia: Press of Times Printing House, 1900?]. 251, iii p.

The chaplaincy work of Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, a member of the Executive Committee, is chronicled here. See also "Report of the Philadelphia Section of the Council of Jewish Women" on pp. 197-98.

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National Conference of Charities and Correction. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at the Twenty-sixth Annual Session held in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17-23, 1899. Edited by Isabel C. Barrows. Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis; London: P. S. King & Son, 1900. xv, 465 p.

Participants include Rabbi I. L. Leucht, New Orleans (pp. 346, 347, 351), Rabbi Dr. Max Landsberg, Rochester (pp. 345, 347-48), and Michael Heymann, New Orleans (pp. 60-62, 348-49).

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Miln, Louise Jordan. Wooings and Weddings in Many Climes. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. xx, 395, [1] p.

Chap. 21, "In the Greater Judea."

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Mikszáth, Kálmán. St. Peter’s Umbrella: A Novel. Translated from the Hungarian by B. W. Worswick, with Introduction by R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCC. xi, 288 p.

Jónás Müncz is Jewish.

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Mason, Caroline Atwater. A Woman of Yesterday. ... New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. vii, 367 p.

Fiction. Barnabas Rosenblatt and his daughter, Judith, are Jewish. Wright III:3631.

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Mackson, I. American Architecture, Interiors and Furniture, during the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century. Boston: George H. Polley, [c1900]. 58 [i.e., 59] plates.

Plate [26] depicts an unidentified New York synagogue.

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Loeb, Morris. The Ethics of Charitable Endeavor. A Paper read before the Jewish Chautauqua Assembly, held in Atlantic City, N.J., July 18, 1900. New York: Press of Philip Cowen, 1900. 21 p.

Reprinted from The American Hebrew.

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