Subject: Missionaries

A one-page letter written by Isaac Leeser to Gotthard Dellman Bernheim, copied by Solomon Nunes Carvalho, dated December 27, 1852. Leeser refutes accusations against Rabbi Menachem Emanuel Marcuson of converting to Christianity. The letter discusses the challenges of Christian missionary activity within the American Jewish community in the 19th century.

A sermon titled "The Dereliction and Restoration of the Jews," published in Boston in 1819. The sermon discusses the historical situation of the Jewish people and their future restoration. Further details regarding the author and specific missionary to Palestine mentioned in the original description are unavailable from the provided metadata.

This is the first volume of *The Massachusetts Missionary Magazine*, published in Salem in 1803. The magazine contains religious communications and articles intended to edify Christians and inform the rising generation. Profits from the publication supported missionaries in new settlements and among Native Americans. Notably, one of the articles details the conversion of two Jewish people to Christianity. The editors were Samuel Austin, Nathanael Emmons, Abiel Holmes, David Sanford, Jonathan Strong, Daniel Hopkins, Caleb Alexander, Samuel Springs, Jacob Norton, Joseph Barker, Paul Litchfield, Samuel Niles, Elijah Parish and Samuel Austin (Ed. Appointed by the Missionary Society). This is a rare first edition, May 1803-April 1804, bound in contemporary leather.