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Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828 : Jewish reformer and intellectual
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Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828 : Jewish reformer and intellectual

Author: Gary Phillip Zola
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
Series: Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Between the years 1795 and 1815, Charleston, South Carolina, experienced prodigious economic growth resulting in a remarkable period of cultural efflorescence. After 1815, however, the city entered a period of economic decline, the effects of which were perceived in every aspect of Charleston's communal infrastructure. This revealing new biography of Isaac Harby (1788-1828) sheds much light on the rise and fall of
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Zola, Gary Phillip.
Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1994
(OCoLC)624468183
Named Person: Isaac Harby; Isaac Harby
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gary Phillip Zola
ISBN: 0817306935 9780817306939
OCLC Number: 28889606
Description: xv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The Formative Years --
2. Early Literary Ventures --
3. Pedagogy, Publishing, and Politics --
4. In Pursuit of a Livelihood --
5. The Reformation of Judaism --
6. The Final Years --
Appendix A: Isaac Harby's Academy Cashbook, 1819- 1820, A Summary --
Appendix B: Reformed Society of Israelites Members Listed in the KKBE Books of Offerings, 1811, 1813, 1814, 1819, and 1823 --
Appendix C: Reformed Society of Israelites Members Buried in the KKBE Cemetery --
Appendix D: Authorship of Various Prayers Found in the Prayerbook of the Reformed Society of Israelites.
Series Title: Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
Responsibility: Gary Phillip Zola ; with a foreword by Jacob Rader Marcus.
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Between the years 1795 and 1815, Charleston, South Carolina, experienced prodigious economic growth resulting in a remarkable period of cultural efflorescence. After 1815, however, the city entered a period of economic decline, the effects of which were perceived in every aspect of Charleston's communal infrastructure. This revealing new biography of Isaac Harby (1788-1828) sheds much light on the rise and fall of Charleston during this period.

As a newspaper editor and publisher, a playwright of some distinction, a highly regarded drama critic, an essayist, and a political and social commentator, Harby earned a position of respect and prominence within the thriving cultural milieu of antebellum Charleston. Harby, together with a small group of contemporary litterateurs, spent considerable energy trying to establish and legitimate letters as a profession.

Unfortunately their desire to make a living in the world of the literary arts - the leitmotiv of a generation of literati - was a dream that went largely unfulfilled. Nevertheless, these individuals struggled to stimulate the growth and development of a native literary tradition in this country.

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By studying Harby, one of the few Jews in his city's literary circle, we add significantly to our understanding of Jewish life in the South during the early national period. Harby's active role in the establishment and advancement of the Reformed Society of Israelites (incorporated in 1825), the first formalized effort to reform Judaism in North America, has attracted considerable scholarly attention.

Zola demonstrates that Harby's particular interest in the reformation of Judaism was very much related to his lifelong desire to improve society through the cause of intellectual enrichment. Drawing from local newspapers, government documents, and other contemporary sources, together with the newly discovered contents of Harby's personal library and papers, this book constitutes an entirely new analysis of Harby's life.

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