Subject: Jewish Colonization

Billhead from S. W. Rosenstock & Co., dated March 23, 1874. The billhead indicates the company's address as 32 & 34 Sansome Street, corner of Bush Street, San Francisco, and specifies payment in gold coin. The description also includes information about Marion Leventritt, a partner in the firm, who was involved in shoe manufacturing and a founding member of The International Society for the Colonization of Russian Jews in 1891. Information from the *Daily Alta California* of January 17, 1891, detailing the incorporation of this society and its board of directors, including Leventritt, is also included.

A one-page commercial letter (October 2, 1851) written by M. E. Levy from Pilatka, Florida, concerning land in Levy County. The letter was addressed to George R. Tarrbaud. Moses E. Levy (1782-1854) was a pioneer Jewish settler in Florida, known for his visionary approach to Jewish colonization and educational initiatives. Signed documents by this prominent figure are rare.

A one-page commercial letter written by Moses E. Levy on February 14, 1853, from Miconopy, Florida, to George N. Fairbanks, concerning land in Levy County, Florida. Levy, a prominent Jewish pioneer settler in Florida, arrived in 1821. The letter is significant due to its rarity; signed documents by this influential figure are scarce.

Partially printed deed, signed by Julius D. Eisenstein as President of the Mizpah Agricultural and Industrial Company, Michael S. Mirsky as Secretary, and Ralph Nathan as Commissioner for New Jersey in New York. The deed details the purchase of property from the West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad Company for a "Russian-Hebrew" communal colony. The three-page folio document is partially printed and completed in manuscript. The Mizpah colony, founded in part by Eisenstein, was an attempt to establish an agricultural settlement for Russian-Jewish immigrants in southern New Jersey. The colony's history is marked by challenges, including poor land quality and difficult living conditions for its early inhabitants. This deed provides crucial documentation of the colony's early development and its connection to broader patterns of Jewish immigration and settlement in the United States.

This is the first American edition of Laurence Oliphant's *Haifa: Or Life in Modern Palestine*, published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1887. Edited by Charles A. Dana from letters Oliphant sent to him, the book recounts Oliphant's 1879 travels to Palestine and his involvement in efforts to promote Jewish immigration. The book contains 369 pages and includes six pages of publisher's advertisements at the end.

Pamphlet published in London by Stephens, Hayter & Co. in 1882. This first edition, authored by Stanwood J. Menken, details the establishment and subsequent failure of the first Russian Jewish agricultural colony in the United States, located in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. The colony, established in 1881 with the aid of the Hebrew Foreign Mission Society of New Orleans and the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society, was ultimately destroyed by Mississippi River flooding in the spring of 1882. The pamphlet discusses the colony's founding, financial backing from various organizations including the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the colonists' origins in Kiev and Elizabethgrad, Russia, and the devastating impact of the flood. The pamphlet also mentions the concurrent publication of a German-language edition in Frankfurt a/Main, suggesting an attempt to garner financial support from both English and German Jewish communities. The pamphlet shows signs of prior library ownership and some minor wear.

A three-page letter written by Samuel Janison of Savannah, Georgia, to Louis E. Levy, President of the Jewish Immigration Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1890. Janison proposes the sale of land in Georgia for the establishment of a Jewish farming colony.

This newspaper clipping from Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland on January 21, 1826, features an article dismissing the laying of the cornerstone at Ararat (Buffalo, NY). The article, appearing on pages 330 and 331, includes a statement from the Chief Rabbi of Cologne expressing outrage.

Newspaper clipping from Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland on January 29, 1820. The clipping reprints an article from the Albany Gazette concerning Mordecai Manuel Noah's plan to establish a Jewish settlement called "Ararat" on Grand Island in the Niagara River. The article details Noah's vision for a Jewish homeland.

This archival item consists of an October 25, 1822, issue of the *Christian Register*, a newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. The issue reprints a letter from a Jewish organization in Berlin, Germany, published earlier in the *New York Commercial Advertiser*, expressing support for Mordecai Manuel Noah's efforts to establish a Jewish settlement in Ararat. The *Christian Register* also includes a favorable editorial about Noah's project preceding the reprinted letter.

This item is an issue of the periodical "Puck" from 1879, featuring an antisemitic political cartoon by Joseph Keppler titled "The New Judea." The cartoon depicts a chaotic scene with caricatured figures associated with the "Jewish Colonization Company" and the "Office of the Superintendent," including individuals handling animals, an "old clothes" vendor, and people arriving by cart, implying a critique or satire of Jewish settlement efforts. The artwork is a lithograph, characteristic of the era's political cartoons. The reverse side contains additional articles and text. 3.

Pamphlet titled "Report on Baron Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Scheme in the Argentine Republic," presented to both houses in March 1894. Foreign Office # 323. Includes a map. Published in London in 1894.

This book contains the text of an address delivered by Benjamin F. Peixotto before the Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York on February 2, 1887. Entitled "What Shall We Do With Our Immigrants?", the address discusses immigration policy and its impact on immigrant communities. It includes an appendix on "The Jewish Colonies in America" by M. Heilprin and an abstract from an address on "How to Promote Agriculture Among the Jews." Published in New York in 1887.