Subject: Relations

This pamphlet, published in Cincinnati in 1848 by Robinson & Jones, presents an address by 'An Israelite' (identified as Abraham A.Lindo) to the Christian world. Lindo asserts that Jewish people share the same concerns as Christians regarding attempts to undermine belief in divine revelation. He argues that God's covenant with the Jewish people remains unbroken and that the world owes its civilization to the revelation at Sinai. He further contends that Christianity, while initially a Jewish sect, has become distorted from its original monotheistic roots. This is a first edition.

This eight-page pamphlet, published anonymously in New York City on November 29, 1858, defends the Catholic Church's actions in the Edgardo Mortara case. The pamphlet, inscribed "With the compliments of 'Fair Play'" argues for the "liberty of a child of being a Christian and not forced compulsorily to be a Jew." It portrays the Pope's intervention as a "grandest moral spectacle." The case involved Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy baptized by his Catholic nanny, who was subsequently taken from his family by Papal authorities to be raised Catholic. The pamphlet represents a contemporary perspective on a highly controversial event that fueled anti-Catholic and antisemitic sentiments in the United States and Europe.