Subject: Missions -- Palestine

Pamphlet containing a sermon preached at Park Street Church in Boston on October 31, 1819, just before the departure of the Palestine Mission. The sermon combines biblical prophecy with accounts of successful Jewish conversions in Europe. This sermon highlights the first American missionaries to Turkish Palestine. See record 13.1426 for a second sermon delivered on the same day.

A letter written by William Morrison Engles to Isaac Leeser on June 25, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Engles forwards letters concerning the American agricultural mission near Jaffa, including one from the son of Rabbi Jechiel Cohen to his father, who was on a fundraising mission in the United States. The letter is noteworthy for addressing Leeser as "Rabbi Leeser," and for its context within the larger story of 19th-century Jewish communities in Eretz Israel facing poverty and missionary efforts.