Teachers' Guide and the Parents' Assistant: Thirteen Lessons Conveying to Uninformed Minds the First Ideas of God and His Attributes, by an American Jewess

Book - "Teachers' Guide and the Parents' Assistant or Thirteen Lessons Conveying to Uninformed Minds the First Ideas of God and His Attributes by an American Jewess." Published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1845 by Sherman. This is considered the first Jewish study book written by a woman in America. The book is in the form of conversations designed to help parents and teachers instruct children about God and His attributes. An introduction was written by Reverend Isaac Leeser of Mikvah Israel. A review of the book appeared in Leeser's Occident (Vol. III, No. 3, June 1845). Rosenbach #578 lists only three copies of this book; this may be one of them.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 13