Autograph Letter Signed by N.H. McKein, lecturer at the Springler Institute of New York to Rev. Prof. Charlton T. Lewis of Troy University

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $350

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

March 16th

Place

New York

Publication

1859

references

See D. Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997); B. W. Korn, The American Reaction to the Mortara Case (1957)

summary

Contains an interesting vignette of Jewish life in New Yok City in the pre-Civil War period. The letter describes a visit to a Synagogue (probably Temple Emanuel) stating “the service was...very interesting and beautiful." The writer was especially impressed by the synagogue-sermon delivered by Mr. De Cordova in which he protested the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in Bologna by the Papal police

Seven pages. With envelope

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