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Book - The Jewish Expositor, and Friend of Israel: Containing Monthly Communications Respecting The Jews, and The Proceedings of the London Society. Volume II. Published: London, 1817. 480 pp. Hardcover in original marbled boards and leather spine. Former Wofford College Library bookplate on front The Jewish Expositor was a monthly periodical of the "Friend for Israel," an organization whose purpose was to promote Christianity among the Jews. This book also has reports on the similarities between American Indians & Jews. Active in the USA thru Fry...REY, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick, clergyman, born in May at Stockheim, Franconia, Germany, in 1773 ; died in Pontiac, Michigan, 5 June 1850. His father, Samuel Levi, was a Jewish teacher, and expounder of rabbinical law. His mother supported the family by keeping a small shop. At six years of age he read the five books of Moses in the original, and was daily instructed by a private tutor in the Jewish law. In 1816 he removed with his family to New York, established the Mulberry Street Congregationalist Church, and was ordained its pastor in 1818. In 1820 he founded the American society for meliorating the condition of the Jews. The object of this association was to establish an asylum for Christian Hebrews from all parts of the world. The enterprise proved a failure, and occupied several years of fruitless labor. In 1827, Mr. Frey, convinced of the necessity of immersion, left the Congregationalist Church and became a Baptist. In 1837 resigned his pastorate to go to Europe as an agent for the American society for the conversion of the Jews. He remained abroad three years, but the mission was not favorably received. He returned to New York, lectured weekly in the South Baptist Church to such Jews as He could induce to form his congregation, went on missionary journeys through the southern and southwestern states, and finally settled in Pontiac, Michigan, where he taught Hebrew in the preparatory department of the State University. His published works are "Narrative of my Life" (New York, 1809);" Hebrew Bible" (1811); "Hebrew Grammar" (1813'23); "Judah and Israel" (1837); "Lectures of Scripture Types" (1841); and "Report of the Agency in Europe" (1842).

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