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Letter from Moses N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser, Kingston, Jamaica, September 4, 1863

Six-page letter written by Rabbi Moses N. Nathan in Kingston, Jamaica, to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 4, 1863. The letter discusses the Civil War, the state of Jewish communities in New Orleans and Cincinnati, Nathan's pulpit in St. Thomas, and the need for a Jewish boarding school in Britain. It also details the declining state of the Judah Touro Synagogue in New Orleans.

Associated People/Businesses

Leeser, Isaac
Nathan, M. N.
LEESER, ISAAC / NATHAN, MOSES

Geography

Kingston

Subjects

Civil war
Jews, American

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 4, Folder 2