Skip to content

Subject: Kentucky -- Louisville -- Societies, etc.

No additional authority information available for Kentucky -- Louisville -- Societies, etc..


Printed Letter from Lewis N. Dembitz to the Kentucky Immigration Society, Louisville, Kentucky, November 1, 1865Printed Letter from Lewis N. Dembitz to the Kentucky Immigration Society, Louisville, Kentucky, November 1, 1865

Printed broadside letter from Lewis N. Dembitz transmitting the constitution of the Kentucky Immigration Society. Dated November 1, 1865. The letter explains the necessity of the society as Dembitz perceived it. Dembitz was the first delegate to vote for Lincoln's nomination as President of the USA. A lawyer, he was an early Zionist and Orthodox Jew. The uncle of Justice Brandeis, he had an important influence on his career.