1st edition. Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering, 8vo, (6) , 65 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Each page within black-ruled border.  Singerman 3443. Prussian-born Rev. Isidor Kalisch (1816-86) came to America in 1849 and was called to serve the Tifereth Israel congregation of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1855 the first conference of rabbis was held in Cleveland and a ritual and common prayer-book was agreed upon entitled “Minhag America” which Kalisch edited together with Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. Kalisch took part in polemical discussions on behalf of the ultra-Reform element in Judaism and his debates with Rev. Isaac Leeser, arising from his criticism of Leeser's English version of the Bible and on the “Jewish Belief in a Personal Messiah, ” become well known. Light wear to wrappers. Very Good+ interior. Overall Very Good Condition (KH-3-22A-KK)