Isaac Leeser

GA 's maternal great-grandfather, Benjamin Dias Fernandez , wrote religious polemic, which was eventually published byIsaac Leeser (the editor of GA 's The Spirit of Judaism).

The series had a small circulation and was addressed to an audience living in poverty, but a copy sent to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia led him to republish it in the Occident, which in...

Between 1839 and May 1846, Isaac Leeser 's The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate, published from Philadelphia, printed twenty-seven poems by GA , as well as some prose extracts.

CM also published in periodicals. Her Neela, A Tale of the Jews in England appeared in 1842 in Friendship's Offering, and from there it was reprinted as a serial, beginning in January 1844, in...

Around this time, GA began writing poetry: she later published verse in both general and Jewish periodicals, including The Keepsake, La Belle Assemblée, and Isaac Leeser 's Occident (published in Philadelphia).

Aiming to provide her younger brother with lessons in Judaism, GA wrote from 1837 the essays later collected as The Spirit of Judaism. Rabbi Isaac Leeser , who was the publisher of the book...

By the time Records of Israel had been published, GA 's British audience considered her an authority on Judaism.Isaac Leeser 's Philadelphia periodical The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate published its own laudatory...

Some accused GA , on grounds of her emphasis on spirit rather than form, of being a Jewish Protestant. However, she was very well received by many in the Jewish community, and even those...

The Spirit of Judaism presents a vision of Judaism based on morality and spirituality, and criticises contemporary adherence to mere tradition and form. The book is dialogic to the extent that in his editorial comments,...

In April 1846 Leeser 's The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate printed (as well as its review of The Women of Israel, and work by both Celia and Marion Moss ) GA 's poem...

In Philadelphia, Isaac Leeser 's The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate printed (along with works by Celia Moss and Grace Aguilar ) The Return of David by MM (under her married name).

Grace Aguilar published Records of Israel: Two Tales, historical romances set in Portugal and Spain.