Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 48; 48 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Hebrew and Yiddish. Added English title page for volume 1: ‘Moseig Meidwas, Part 1, A Book of Sermons’; for volume 2: Moseik Meidwas, Part II, A Book of Sermons’. Three volumes were printed total, 1917-1918; volumes one and two only. “This work contains sermons (on holidays, lifecycle events and Zionism) and eulogies written with the ‘spirit of the time and place’ in mind. For a critique of modern synagogues, see vol. 1, pp. 25-7 (e. G. They emphasize aesthetics, electricity and organs, but they are devoid of Judaism; they permit mixed dancing; and they perpetuate ‘bar mitzvah Judaism’) . … For a sermon delivered by R. Hayyim Zevi Braude, Silverstone’s uncle, see vol. 2, pp. 12-4. Louis Herman may have been the typesetter for vol. 2 (vol. 2, p. 48) . All of Silverstone’s publications were subsidized by Noah Musher …Most copies of vols. 1-2 were purchased by two New York book dealers within a year. Vols. 1-2 were so popular that Silverstone had to buy back on hundred copies because preachers kept on writing to him asking for them (vol. 3, p.5) . ” (Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America, entry # 794) . Subjects: Jewish sermons, Hebrew. OCLC lists 4 copies (JTSA, Yeshiva, Flordia, HUC) . Wraps soiled, outer edges lightly soiled, wraps of part 2 are loose; internally fresh and clean. Good + condition. (AMR-44-17)