Book details: IF I WERE A CHRISTIAN
$US 125.00
Newman, Louis I.
IF I WERE A CHRISTIAN
Imprint: New York,, 1936
Stapled. 10 pages. 28 cm. Holocaust-era hand typed sermon by Rabbi Louis I. Newman for the congregation at Rodeph Sholom. Newman was an assistant to Rabbi Stephen Wise at the Free Synagogue in 1917. He served at the Bronx Free Synagogue, Temple Israel in New York City, Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, and Temple Rodeph Sholom in New York City. He was active in the Zionist Revisionist movement, championing Zionism as primarily a political movement and the necessity of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. He was the chairman of the Palestine Mandate Defense Fund and honorary chairman of the Revisionist Tel Hai Fund and the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine. Dated at top of first sheet. Pages are slightly darkened with a crease through the middle, and a small tear on one page, but all text is clear. Very good condition. Unique. (HOLO2-41-18), OK 06/12
Stock number:26673.