Subject: Jewish leadership

Bookplate featuring the name "Wolf" and a crown. Simon Wolf (1836-1923) was a prominent lawyer, diplomat, and Jewish community leader in the United States. This bookplate likely dates from around 1885.

Lithograph portrait of Mayer Sulzberger (1843-1923), a jurist, Hebraist, communal leader, one of the founders of the Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS), and secretary of the Board of American Israel Delegates. Elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1895, he later became its president. The lithograph is circa 1885.

One-page handwritten document recording the election of Isaac Leeser as Hazan (cantor) of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1829. The document, signed by Abraham Myers Cohen, Secretary pro tem, details the election process and the resolution to engage Leeser for a two-year term at a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum. A subsequent resolution appointed a committee to inform Leeser of his appointment. This document is significant as it marks the beginning of Leeser's career as a prominent American Jewish leader and writer.