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Prospectus for the American Israelite: A Broadside by Isaac Mayer Wise Prospectus for the American Israelite: A Broadside by Isaac Mayer Wise

Printed broadside advertising subscriptions for the first issue of the *American Israelite*, the first Reformed Jewish newspaper in the United States. Published in Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1854. The verso contains a handwritten letter from Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise to Leopold Waterman soliciting literary contributions for the first edition.