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Subject: Ohio -- Social life and customs

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Letter from A. Bloch to Isaac Leeser, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2, 1833Letter from A. Bloch to Isaac Leeser, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2, 1833

Three-page letter written by A. Bloch in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 2, 1833. The letter details personal matters, including family health and the writer's sorrow at being separated from his mother and friends in Bohemia. It suggests a pre-existing friendship between Bloch and Leeser from Bohemia. This letter is considered to be the earliest extant Jewish immigrant letter from Ohio.

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