Isaac Leeser

12 Dec 1806 – 01 Feb 1868

Isaac Leeser was an American, Ashkenazi Jewish religious leader, teacher, scholar and publisher. He helped found the Jewish press of America, produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English, and helped organize various social and educational organizations.

• Catalogue of the Leeser library
• Catechism for Jewish children
• Catechism for younger children
• Discourses on the Jewish religion
• Discourses on the Jewish religion
• Discourses, argumentative and devotional
• Discourses, argumentative and devotional, on the subject of the Jewish religion. Delivered at the synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the years 5590-5597 [i.e., 1830-1837]
• Discourses, argumentative and devotional, on the subject of the Jewish religion. Delivered chiefly at the synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the years 5598-5601 [i.e., 1838-1841]
• Shema Yisrael
• The claims of the Jews to an equality of rights
• The Jews and the Mosaic law
• The Jews and the Mosaic law