Book details: THE SUPREME LAW OF THE FUTURE MAN
$US 200.00
Hochfelder, Julius
THE SUPREME LAW OF THE FUTURE MAN
Imprint: New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1909
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Paper wrappers, 8vo. , 74 pages. A collection of essays and writing on Judaism and religion by Julius Hochfelder, who “was born in Hungary and came to the United States in 1888. A large, sturdy man, considered a genius, he was a highly educated (LL. B. , Ph. D. ) patent lawyer, author, organizer of the Seaman’s Evening College, director of the Homework Protective League and, in World War I, member of the Jewish Welfare Board”. Inscribed by Hochfelder’s wife, Anna, to Rev. Dr. Rudolph Grossman, longtime Rabbi at Rodeph Sholom in NYC. Anna Hochfelder was also a lawyer and founded the American Alliance of Civil Service Women in 1912 (Thomas, Jewish Women’s Archive, 2009) . Includes excerpts by Rabbis Alexander Kohut and Isaac M. Wise, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and an address on the golden rule by Hon. David J. Brewer, associate justice of the Supreme Court at the time. Includes (printed) letters from Henry Guttman, Master of William McKinley Lodge, Rabbi Joseph Silverman, and Rev. Dr. S MacAurthur, thanking the author for the book. Only 3 copies listed on OCLC (NYPL, Harvard, and Center for Research IL) . Cover sunned, with small piece missing, pages in very good condition. (HAG-11-5)
Stock number:30177.