This letter, dated July 15, 1868, was written by J. E. Myers of Portsmouth, Virginia to Wm. B. Hackenburg. Myers encloses eight dollars for a subscription to the Occident. The letter provides context regarding the business affairs of the Occident following the death of Isaac Leeser on February 1, 1868. Hackenburg, an active member of the Jewish community, managed the Occident's business while Mayer Sultzberg served as editor for a year until his own death.
Subject: Jewish periodicals -- United States -- 19th century
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A letter written by Leo L. Demery to Isaac Leeser on July 24, 1850, from New Orleans, Louisiana. The letter concerns Demery's non-receipt of a copy of *The Occident*, a prominent 19th-century American Jewish periodical edited by Leeser.
One-page letter from Lewis Abraham in Cincinnati, Ohio to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated May 18, 1847. The letter pertains to business matters related to *The Occident*, a prominent 19th-century American Jewish periodical.
One-page letter dated September 17, 1850, from Robert Lyon, publisher of The Asmonean, in New York City to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia. The letter discusses an editorial in The Occident that attacked Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and his Albany congregation, and Lyon seeks Leeser's help in absolving him of responsibility for the editorial. The letter quotes verbatim from the editorial.
This manuscript is a subscriber list for the *Occident*, a 19th-century Jewish periodical. Although undated, it likely predates July 2, 1843, based on the inclusion of Zalma Rehine of Baltimore, who died on that date. The list includes subscribers from various locations including New York, Philadelphia, Kingston (Jamaica), Richmond, Va., Savannah, St. Thomas, Baltimore, Beaufort, S.C., Charleston, S.C., Montreal, New Orleans, and Liverpool, England, among other cities and towns. The list is written in Isaac Leeser's hand and contains many names of prominent Jewish figures of the time. The manuscript shows some corrections in a different ink, also in Leeser's handwriting. This list does not exactly match the published list in *Occident*, Vol. I, issue 4, July 1843.
Two letters from Leo Demery of New Orleans to Isaac Leeser, dated December 24, 1850, and January 5, 1851. The letters express Demery's frustration with the irregular delivery of the Occident, a publication edited by Leeser. Demery details his unsuccessful attempts to receive back issues and notes that the publication's unreliability discourages potential subscribers. He mentions contacting Isaac Hart, Leeser's agent, for assistance but was instructed to write Leeser directly, incurring additional postage costs.